Hello Everyone,
Today is the first day of the Engineering Transparency conference at the GSAPP. It is a 3 day festival with hundreds of speakers and guests. Definitely sneak into as many lectures as possible if you get a chance to stop by.

Here is the brief:

After the last century’s call to a radical new architecture and urban life, glass architecture is more ubiquitous today than ever. A deeply engineered product, glass has re-emerged in a new light as a seemingly more culturally accepted material in design and construction. Its new appearance, however, reveals a virtually new product replacing the glass used even twenty years ago. The innovations are observable and have direct use.

Offering new modes of visual pleasure and spatial experience to occupants—glass has also been the beneficiary of major advances in engineering that are decidedly less visible—structural innovations, new control and design engineering at the level of optics, thermal properties, and fabrication limits as well as installation have quietly reconfigured the extent and reach of glass applications. We are so continually surrounded by such discretely functioning glass, that we don’t even see it. This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring an ordinarily extraordinary material back before our eyes.

Convened by
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP
Michael Bell, Associate Professor

Columbia University Department of Civil
Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Christian Meyer, Chair and Professor

The Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Building Construction
Bernhard Weller, Director and Professor


INTRODUCTION TO CONFERENCE
Wednesday, September 26, 6:30
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
GSAPP, Columbia University

Mark Wigley
Dean
GSAPP, Columbia University

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Wednesday, September 26, 6:30 - 8:00PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
GSAPP, Columbia University

Kazuyo Sejima
Architect
SANAA, Tokyo

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception outside of the auditorium.
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DAY 1
Thursday, September 27, 9:30AM - 6:00PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
GSAPP, Columbia University

9:30AM - REGISTRATION & COFFEE

10:00AM - INTRODUCTIONS
Michael Bell
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University
Christian Meyer
Chair and Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
Bernhard Weller
Director and Professor
Institute of Building Construction, Technische Universität Dresden

10:30AM - PANEL: IS GLASS STILL GLASS?

Moderator
Michael Bell
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University

Speakers
Roberto Bicchiarelli
Vice President
Permasteelisa Cladding Technologies, CT
Laurie Hawkinson
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University
Reinhold Martin
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University
Detlef Mertins
Chair and Professor of Architecture
Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

12:00PM - BREAK

1:30PM - PANEL: TECHNIQUES & CONNECTIONS: VISUAL & MECHANICAL

Moderator
Kenneth Frampton
Ware Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University

Speakers
James Carpenter
Architect
James Carpenter Design Associates, NYC
Guy Nordenson
Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture, Princeton University
Engineer
Guy Nordenson and Associates, NYC
Francios Roche
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University
Architect
R&Sie(n), Paris
Hans Shober
Engineer
Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart

3:00PM - PANEL: GLASS AT THE LIMITS

Moderator
Antoine Picon
Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology
GSD, Harvard University

Speakers
Beatriz Colomina
Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture, Princeton University
Elizabeth Diller
Architect
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, NYC
Matthias Schuler
Engineer
TRANSSOLAR, Stuttgart
Bernhard Weller
Director and Professor
Institute of Building Construction, Technische Universität Dresden

5:00PM - PANEL: THE NEAR & FAR FUTURE OF GLASS

Moderator
Mark Wigley
Dean
GSAPP, Columbia University

Conversation
Steven Holl
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University
Werner Sobek
Engineer
Werner Sobek Engineering & Design, Stuttgart

6:00PM - Reception outside Wood Auditorium
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DAY 2
Friday, September 28, 9:00AM - 5:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
GSAPP, Columbia University

9:00AM - REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9:30AM - PANEL: STRUCTURAL GLASS, STRUCTURE & GLASS

Moderator
Richard Tomasetti
Engineer
Thornton Tomasetti, NYC

Speakers
Ulrich Knaack
Professor of Architecture
Technical University, Delft
Nina Rappaport
Publications Director
School of Architecture, Yale University
Jens Schneider
Engineer, University of Applied Science, Frankfurt

11:15AM - PANEL: OPTICS & CLIMATE ENGINEERING

Moderator
Joan Ockman
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University

Speakers
Michelle Addington
Associate Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture, Yale University
Robert Heintges
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University
Wilfried Laufs
Engineer
Werner Sobek Engineering & Design, Stuttgart
Toshihiro Oki
Architect
SANAA, Tokyo

12:30PM - BREAK

2:00PM - PANEL: NEW MATERIALS/ CONVERSION OF LIGHT

Moderator
Scott Marble
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University

Speakers
Graham Dodd
Engineer
ARUP, London
Susanne Rexroth
Architect
Institute of Building Construction, Technische Universität Dresden
Tom Richardson
Engineer
Lawrence Berkeley Labs, UC Berkeley
Stefan Roschert
Architect
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, NYC

3:15PM - BREAK

3:30PM - PANEL: SECURITY, SAFETY & BLAST LOADING

Moderators
Michael Bell
Professor of Architecture
GSAPP, Columbia University
Christian Meyer
Chair and Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University

Speakers
Albrecht Burmeister
Engineer
DELTA-X, Stuttgart
Scott Norville
Professor of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering, Texas Tech University
Robert Smilowitz
Engineer
Applied Sciences Division, Weidlinger Associates, NYC

5:00PM - CONCLUDING REMARKS

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