Archinect - News 2024-05-02T18:56:38-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/146042310/get-lectured-uic-barcelona-foros-2016 Get Lectured: UIC Barcelona, Foros 2016 Justine Testado 2016-01-18T14:49:00-05:00 >2016-01-19T00:53:26-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8x/8x2qexd44bfaz0be.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/688597/2016-lectures" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2016</strong></a></p><p>Archinect's&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/336082/get-lectured" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Get Lectured</em></a>&nbsp;is back in session.&nbsp;<em>Get Lectured</em>&nbsp;is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series&mdash;and their snazzy posters&mdash;for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.</p><p><strong><em>Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to&nbsp;</em><a href="mailto:connect@archinect.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>connect@archinect.com</em></a><em>.</em></strong></p><p>Our next featured poster comes from the <a href="http://archinect.com/ArchitectureUICBarcelona" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UIC Barcelona School of Architecture</a> with their 2016 Foros lecture series: "Origin." Returning for its 11th cycle, the 2016 cycle "invites reflection on the origins of ideas, something that can be invisible and hard to describe but often capable of changing circumstances."</p><p>Lectures take place at 7:00 p.m. on campus.</p><p><strong>Feb 1</strong><br>Christoph H&ouml;lscher &amp; Victor Schinazi / Directors of Cognitive Science - ETH Zurich&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Feb 15</strong><br>Luis Mart&iacute;nez Santa-Mar&iacute;a</p><p><strong>Feb 29</strong><br>Arquitectura-G</p><p><strong>March 14</strong><br>Harquitectes</p><p><strong>April 18</strong><br>Baukuh</p><p><strong>April 25 </strong><br>Pascal Flamme...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/94963342/what-s-wrong-with-the-primitive-hut-explores-architecture-s-origins "What's wrong with the primitive hut?" explores architecture's origins Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-03-05T17:38:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/vc/vco5znw3f06d9gdu.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Bowerbird is named for its very particular mating ritual, where the male constructs an elaborate bower-structure and decorates it with a shrine of colorful objects in order to attract potential mates. Males will spend hours gathering sticks and shiny things to complete their bower, which tend to follow two basic typologies: a tent-like cone of sticks, or two stick-walls in parallel, forming a little avenue. Whether the bowerbird builds the tent or the avenue depends pretty consistently on the species, but once the bowers are bedazzled, the structures become absolutely unique to that particular bird and its surroundings.<br>&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/tg/tguara1ktlfjic5a.jpg"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&rsquo;s not clear whether the bowerbird&rsquo;s habits predate the first instance of human architecture, but to imagine that an inception point of our architectural history owes itself to a horny bird throws an interesting irreverence into the thought-piece of &ldquo;what is the origin of architecture?&rdquo;. Last Monday at the REDCAT theater in downtown Los Angeles, Pier Paolo Tam...</p>