Category Archives: Lecture

Manuel De Landa Lecture Series

By Neil Leach | Published 2013-04-06 | Posted in Lecture

USC Adjunct Professor Manuel De Landa is currently giving his intensive 2 week lecture series, ‘Theories of Self-Organization and the Dynamics of Cities’. In addition to his work on cities, Professor De Landa is also well known for his work on digital design. All his USC lectures on cities are available on line, as is [...]

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Jose Sanchez Lecture

By Neil Leach | Published 2013-03-04 | Posted in Lecture

Jose Sanchez is giving a lecture in Watt 1 today at 12.30pm. Jose is an architect/programmer/game designer based in London. He is a partner at Bloom Games, a start-up built upon the Bloom project, winner of the Wonder Series hosted by the City of London for the London 2012 Olympics. He is the director of the Plethora Project (www.plethora-project.com), [...]

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Space Tourism

By Neil Leach | Published 2012-03-30 | Posted in Lecture

John Spencer gave a lecture on Space Tourism for the USC Moon Studio on Friday 30 March. John Spencer was trained as an architect at USC. Since 1982 he has been pioneering the field of space tourism. He has modeled the space tourism industry after the cruise lines and super yachts. In 1995 he founded the [...]

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Achim Menges lecture

By Neil Leach | Published 2012-03-21 | Posted in Lecture

Achim Menges is giving a lecture this evening entitled, ‘Material (In)Formation: Computing Material Gestalt’. Achim Menges is Director of the Institute for Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including the most recent edition of Architectural Design on ‘Material Computation’. With Thomas Auer he [...]

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Robotic Membranes

By Neil Leach | Published 2011-07-17 | Posted in Lecture

Mette Thomsen is giving a lecture to students on AAC 2011 at Tongji University, Shanghai at 6.30pm on Wednesday 20 July. Mette Thomsen is Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark, where she heads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture [CITA]. She is an architect working on interactive [...]

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Schumacher to give Keynote Lecture at DigitalFUTURE Forum

By Neil Leach | Published 2011-06-23 | Posted in Lecture

Patrik Schumacher, a partner in Zaha Hadid Architects, will give a keynote lecture at the DigitalFUTURE forum  on 25-27 June. The forum is being co-hosted by USC’s American Academy in China and Tongji University. The main events will be held on 25 June in CAUP Auditorium, Building B, Tongji University, Shanghai, and two keynote lectures [...]

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Swarm Intelligence Lecture

By Neil Leach | Published 2011-06-05 | Posted in Lecture

Neil Leach is lecturing on ‘Swarm Intelligence’ at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain at 7.30pm on Monday 6 June 2011. The lecture is part of a European tour that includes the University of Plymouth, UK (May 17), T U Delft, Holland (May 19), Novi Sad School of Architecture, Serbia (May [...]

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Manuel Delanda lecture

By Neil Leach | Published 2011-03-29 | Posted in Lecture

Manuel DeLanda is giving a lecture entitled, ‘Simulated Evolution in Architecture’, in Harris 101 at 6pm on Wednesday 30 March 2011. Born in Mexico City, DeLanda is a writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975.  He is the author of six books, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), [...]

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Encoding Algorithmic Matter – Lecture

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-04-21 | Posted in Lecture

Architect and educator, Roland Snooks is the George Issacs Distinguished Fellow in Digital Technology. Snooks is a partner of the architecture practice Kokkugia. He holds a master’s degree in advanced architectural design from Columbia University where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship after graduating from RMIT University (B.Arch).  Snook has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, [...]

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Multiagent systems

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-02-02 | Posted in Lecture

Lecture by Professor Milind Tambe, USC Time: Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 6-8 pm Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC) Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML) How do we build multiagent systems? Today, within the agents and multiagent systems community, we see four main approaches: logic-based belief-desire-intention (BDI), decision- theory and its incarnation [...]

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