Hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS), the Design Matters lecture series welcomes a range of experts and provocative speakers to Calgary for events throughout the year, and on Jan. 8 will feature well known architect Scott Marble.
Marble is a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks, an architecture, design and research firm founded in 1990 by Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks. He is the director of integrated design at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and the director of the integrated design studios on The Columbia Building Intelligence Project.
The work of Marble Fairbanks is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 2008, the MoMA commissioned their project, Flatform for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
Marble is working with EVDS students on campus this week as part of the Somerville Visiting Lectureship.
“Scott Marble’s award-winning practice is at the forefront of technological advances in the design and construction industry,” says Vera Parlac, EVDS assistant professor in architecture. “Beyond being an accomplished architect he is also a great educator. Working with Scott in this weeklong workshop provides our students with a valuable educational experience.”
The Somerville Lectureship was established by an endowment to the University of Calgary by the late Mrs. A.G. Burton in memory of her father, William Lyon Somerville, a distinguished Toronto architect. The gift was matched by the university and features a public lecture.
Marble will present Jan. 8 at the Downtown Campus (906 8 Ave S.W.) from 6-7:30 p.m. as part of the Design Matters lecture series. Entrance is $10 for non-students and students are free.
His lecture will weave together his recent work around the theme of workflows as a practitioner, writer and teacher.
It will include a presentation of projects by Marble Fairbanks and excerpts from his new book, Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design-Assembly-Industry that explores how the assimilation and synthesis of digital communications among architects, engineers, fabricators and builders is dramatically shifting how we work and our relationship to the tools we use.
The 2013-2014 Design Matter lecture series is sponsored by Gibbs Gage Architecture and Section 23.
Article by Jessica Wallace