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Lecture by Francois Roche, R&Sie(n)
Presented as part of CCA's Architecture Lecture Series and Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Monday, November 8, 2010, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Francois Roche is a cofounder of R&Sie(n), an architectural practice based in Paris. The firm’s work is simultaneously organic, biological, and critical, seeking to articulate real and fictional geographic situations as well as narrative structures that can transform them. R&Sie(n) unfolds its protocols through the restaging of different kinds of contemporary relationships: aesthetic, mechanical, computational, and even artificial. It employs speculations and fictions as strategies to un-alienate operative modes and infiltrate media culture in order to subvert its conventions.
The group uses contemporary technology in experiments that alchemically mix Eros and Thanatos to develop deliberately ambiguous scenarios fusing realities that seem immiscible. Using synthetic devices, they work out possibilities somewhere between attractions and aversions, combining obstacles and potential, waste material and efflorescence, threats and protections, mechanical powers and natural forces.
In addition to its architectural practice, R&Sie(n) works through New-Territories.com, a website and research organization dedicated to "research as speculation, fiction as practice, and practice as lifespan."
The 2010–11 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, HDR Architecture, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., Pfau Long Architecture, ROMA Design Group, Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP, SmithGroup, WRNS Studio, Jensen Architects, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, BraytonHughes Design Studios, Cass Calder Smith, Fennie + Mehl Architects, GCI Inc., Levy Design Partners, SRG Partnership, and Ryan Associates. Additional support has been provided by BIOS Design Collective and Andrea Cochran.
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