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    Stair Sessions with Robert Somol and Neil Denari

    Meredith Garda
    Nov 4, '15 2:01 PM EST

    On October 13, The Knowlton School hosted a 'stair session' with this year's Herbert Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professors, Neil Denari and Robert Somol. Denari made is second visit to the Knowlton School this year as he wrapped up a two part seminar with third year architecture graduate students. 

    As a part of the Baumer seminar, students presented a final analysis of Denari's work to complete the first half of the course. Somol, a former professor at the Knowlton School, joined Denari for a discussion with students in the morning and the 'stair session' in the afternoon.  

    The session was facilitated by Knowlton assistant professors, Kristy Balliet and Justin Diles, who are co-teaching the Baumer Seminar course this year. Balliet and Diles came with a series of questions for Somol and Denari: topics ranging from Denari's forthcoming monograph to Somol's thoughts on the trajectory of practice. The session can be viewed on the school's website. http://knowlton.osu.edu/event/neil-denari-robert-somol-stair-session-baumer-distinguished-visiting-professors.

    Somol will return in the spring to help wrap up the Baumer seminar with the students and give a public lecture at the school. 

     

    More information about the school and a full schedule of lectures can be found at knowlton.osu.edu. Previous lectures can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/user/knowltonosu/.



     
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    • I went to this. I found the conversation really interesting and rich but exceptionally hard to follow. What excited me about that was thinking that a bunch of students in a seminar were being exposed to these very upper level conversations about the discipline, not just in a podcast or one panel discussion, but in a classroom setting with lots of time to flesh them out and follow new ideas that spark.

      My favorite bit was when Somol  accused/praised Neil for having "a cultural obligation to design something" rather than just let parametric data make a shape.

      Would have loved being in the seminar itself. Seriously, I was intellectual sprinting and barely keeping up! Great stuff.

      Nov 4, 15 4:15 pm  · 
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      sameolddoctor

      Again, who the fuck cares about these circle-jerk academics? 

      Nov 4, 15 10:06 pm  · 
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      awaiting_deletion

      if circle-jerking gets you this type of work, must be something to it, no?

      Nov 5, 15 12:13 am  · 
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      God, exactly, Olaf! Thank you for that. It's a super cool building.

      Nov 5, 15 6:46 am  · 
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      chigurh

      That building sucks, horrible form, hokey finish, but well detailed - looks like some bad Jetsons building.  Dripping in cash tho - would think you could do a lot more.

      Nov 6, 15 2:25 pm  · 
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      curtkram

      assuming you're referring to the red buildings, their crowns match shape but not color?  why?  poorly executed and derivative.  and i don't think you can even do fire exits like that anymore.  are those supposed to be ornamental?  this is the kind of over-intellectualize we need to get rid of in universities today.

      Nov 11, 15 5:42 pm  · 
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      Yeah totally. Those exposed fire escapes are so PoMo.

      Nov 11, 15 6:42 pm  · 
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      awaiting_deletion

      the unit of width was 22" back in '68.....fat people would never be able to escape, such cruel design

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