Monthly Archives: April 2012

Beesley and Leach at Desform 2012

Philip Beesley and USC professor Neil Leach are the two keynote speakers at the DeSForM 2012 conference being held at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Last night Philip Beesley unveiled his latest installation, Hyperzoic Series: Vesica, at the City Gallery Wellington, and delivered his keynote address. This evening Neil Leach delivers his keynote address, [...]

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Moon Studio Review

An interim of the Moon Studio was held on Friday 13 April. Critics included Behrokh Khoshnevis, Madhu Thanavelu, Anders Carlson and Neil Leach. The final review will be held on Wednesday 9 May as part of the USC ‘Blue Tape’ reviews.

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Hanif Kara Lecture

Hanif Kara of AKT II Structural Engineers presented, ‘Binding Architecture and Engineering Today’, the annual Nabih Youssef lecture on Structural Design Innovation on 11 April. Hanif is one of the leading structural engineers in the world and has worked on a series of projects for firms such as Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster and Partners. The [...]

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DIGITALFUTURE Website

The website for the DigitalFUTURE 2011 summer program has been launched: http://www.digitalfutureshanghai.com/. DigitalFUTURE was a collaboration between USC’s American Academy in China [AAC] and Tongji University that consisted of an international conference, a computation workshop, fabrication workshop and an international exhibition. Two bi-lingual volumes edited by Neil Leach and Philip Yuan are about to be published [...]

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