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Neil Spiller: Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, February 11, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Info: 415.703.9562
It is Neil Spiller's contention that the impact of virtuality and advanced remote sensing devices should lead architects to reassess surrealist and "pataphysical" concepts of space. There are many similarities between these modes of creativity and the way an architect might perceive, interact with, and make connections among their architecture and the myriad machinic and natural ecologies that constitute the sites of our contemporary architecture.
Spiller's Communicating Vessels project seeks to create new relationships among architecture, landscape, space, time, duration, and geography. These landscape pieces and their relationship to one another are highly "pataphysical"; their logistics of form are conditioned by notions of variance, alliance, and deviance. Such ideas produce a very rich formal and surreal architectural language bursting with potential.
Neil Spiller is a professor of architecture and digital theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London.
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