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Architecture, Past, Present, Future – the condensed version

Our cities have done very well in building the physical place, but there is still room to improve on how these places can enhance the social spaces of our communities. This lecture will specifically focus on such places and spaces within our neighbourhoods.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s address ‘The Art and Craft of the Machine’ is widely remembered as an early manifesto for the modern movement in its embrace of the machine-made simplicity. However, Wright’s concept of the ‘Machine’ was influenced by Louis Sullivan’s organic theories of architecture which combined Victorian science and idealism. An acknowledgement that Wright’s ‘Machine’ is also metaphysical, the ‘Will of Life’, resituates his characterization of the arts and crafts as anachronistic and elitist.

Hosted by the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge and Mauricio Soto Rubio, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary.

Mauricio Soto-Rubio is an assistant professor of architecture at the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, where he teaches comprehensive building design studios, structures, and seminars related with lightweight and membrane structures. He is a founding partner of the Lightweight Structures Research Unit (LSRU) at the University of Calgary as well as the Studio for Lightweight Design, a multidisciplinary firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and installation of lightweight, membrane and deployable structures.

Continuing the Tradition of Stone and Wood Construction In Contemporary Canadian Architecture

Join us for the first lecture in the Architecture & Design NOW Series! Berlin based visiting artist Larissa Fassler speaks about her practice.

David Liss is Artistic Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.

Leanne Elias speaks about the Fine Arts Data Physicalization Lab.

Daniel Heaton is a Registered Architect with the Alberta Association of Architects and is the Senior Associate in charge of the Calgary Office of HFKS Architects.