Photo: Angeline Evans

Lampo and the Graham Foundation are pleased to welcome Thomas Ankersmit as he presents new work created for the Serge analogue modular synthesizer, an instrument developed by Serge Tcherepnin at CalArts in the 1970s. Ankersmit will play his own Serge modular live, mixing with pre-recorded material that he created with the original Serge synthesizers at CalArts, where he has been an artist in residence since December 2011. The performance will be processed in real-time in quad.

Thomas Ankersmit (b. 1979, Leiden, the Netherlands) is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. His main instruments are the Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer and alto saxophone. He frequently works with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and electroacoustic artists Valerio Tricoli and Kevin Drumm. Ankersmit last performed at Lampo in September 2008, when he presented a solo concert for alto sax, Serge synthesizer and computer.

This performance is presented in partnership with Lampo. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music, sound art and intermedia projects.

New stilt houses in the village of Lam Isek. Image courtesy of Adrea Fitrianto.

Around the globe, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping people recover from disaster and rebuild homes, infrastructure, and communities, and bridging the gap that separates short-term emergency needs from long-term sustainable recovery. On February 22, Paris based Marie Aquilino will discuss her new book Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity. The book features 25 reports from the field by leaders of architecture, engineering firms, non-profits, research centers, and international agencies that are working to provide disaster prevention and sustainable recovery efforts in a wide range of urban and rural locales, including Manila, New Orleans, Gujarat, São Paulo, Sudan, Vietnam, Kashmir, Sierra Leone, Kansas, and Haiti.

Marie J. Aquilino is a professor of architectural history at the École Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA) in Paris and a specialist in contemporary urban redevelopment. At the ESA she is creating a program to train architecture students to work in contexts of extreme need and crisis in the developing world. In addition, she serves as associate program director of the BaSiC Initiative; is collaborating with the International Federation of the Red Cross to set up a working group on the reconstruction of Haiti; and is a founding partner in OpenJapan, a worldwide design collaborative that devises integrated systems of risk mitigation.

Following the talk, copies of Beyond Shelter will be available for purchase. A book signing and reception will be held in the library.

This event is co-sponsored by Archeworks and by the National Public Housing Museum.

Related Links
Beyond Shelter at D.A.P. books
http://www.artbook.com/9781935202479.html

Stanley Tigerman, Instant City Model, 1966. Photo Balthazar Korab.

Stanley Tigerman will give a talk at the Graham Foundation in conjunction with the exhibition on his work, Ceci n'est pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman.

A Chicago native and principal in the architectural and design firm of Tigerman McCurry, Stanley Tigerman (b. 1930) has undertaken nearly 400 projects, resulting in more than 175 built works. Tigerman trained in some of Chicago’s top firms from 1949 until 1959 including the office of Keck & Keck, Milton Schwartz, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Following his graduation from Yale University, where he received both his BArch (1960) and MArch (1961) under the leadership of Paul Rudolph, Tigerman established his own firm, working with several partners, before founding Tigerman McCurry Architects in 1986 with his wife Margaret McCurry. Tigerman is the author of seven books including The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition and Late Entries (1980); Versus: An American Architect’s Alternatives (1982); The California Condition: A Pregnant Architecture (1982); The Architecture of Exile (1988); Stanley Tigerman: Buildings and Projects 1966-1989 (1989); Schlepping through Ambivalence (2011); his autobiography Designing Bridges to Burn (2011), and he has edited numerous others. In addition to being chosen as was one of the architects to represent the United States at the 1976 and 1980 Venice Biennales, the work of Tigerman’s firm has been exhibited in major galleries and art museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In addition to his own work, Tigerman has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to advancing the discussion of architecture in Chicago for more than five decades. During this time he was a founding member of the critically engaged group The Chicago Seven; he was the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago between 1985 and 1993; and he co-founded ARCHEWORKS, a school and “socially oriented design laboratory” with Eva Maddox in 1994. Most recently, Tigerman co-curated the Graham funded exhibition Design on the Edge: Chicago Architects Reimagine Neighborhoods at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, featuring transit projects commissioned by the city’s top young design talent, and dedicated to the city’s new mayor Rahm Emanuel.

For more information on the exhibition, Ceci nʻest pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman, click here.

Stanley Tigerman, Architoon - Houston, 1983.

Join us for an opening reception with Stanley Tigerman and exhibition curator Emmanuel Petit.

5PM Lecture by Emmanuel Petit: "Scaffolds of Heaven: on Tigerman"

NOTE: RSVPS for Emmanuel Petit's Lecture are at capacity. To join the wait list, please click HERE. Unused reservations will be released to members of the wait list promptly at 5PM. Please join us for the opening reception from 6-8PM.

6-8PM Opening Reception

To RSVP to the opening reception, click HERE.

For more information on the exhibition, Ceci nʻest pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman, click here.

"Future on Pause," 2010 © Luis Urculo

Madrid-based architect Luis Urculo will discuss his recent work. This talk is presented in partnership with Mas Context.

Luis Urculo's work is characterized by an unusual portrayal of architecture  in the form of illustrations, animations, installations, and interiors. He studied at the ETSAM Madrid, at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago and at the Institute of Design and has collaborated with Alberto Campo Baeza, Mansilla-Tuñon and Izaskun Chinchilla. In 2006, he opened his own studio developing ephemeral architecture projects, stage designs and video-installations for Conde Nást, Philippe Starck and Sybilla, among others. His work has been exhibited at the XI Bienale di Architettura di Venezia, Montevideo Bienial, COAM Foundation and other locations. He also works as a teacher with Jaime Hayón for Master of European Design Labs at  Instituto Europeo di Design, Madrid.

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