June 2004 Event
Date: Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm ET
Location: Center for Architecture. Main Lecture Hall (Lower Level) 536 LaGuardia Place (Between Bleecker and W.3rd Street), NYC
‘The New Digital Practice: Exploring the Work of KOL/MAC Studio’ – 2.0 CEU’s
Speaker: William Mac Donald, Principal, KOL/MAC Studio, New York
What does a practice based on digital methodologies look like; how does it operate, and what type of work does it produce?
Since its inception, the firm of Kolatan and MacDonald has produced a series of projects of entirely different scales and situations with each one addressing a number of issues concerning architectural culture today. KOL/MAC Studio have diversified the firm’s scope to include buildings, architectural interiors, urban design, installations, worldwide web projects, and competitions. In so doing they have been able to pursue particular experimental and conceptual ideas while at the same time developing more general strategies for architecture and urbanism. All projects share an interest in - and reflect the firm’s focus on - the implications of new technologies on the practice of architecture both as a design profession and as a ‘building culture’.
The firm’s projects are generated entirely on the computer from the early conceptual phase, through schematic design, design development and construction documents. This affords a smooth interface between consultants and the subcontractors with whom the digital information is shared, and who work directly off of the architectural data not only to generate their own set of drawings but (in the case of subcontractors) actually make the various building parts themselves. KOL/ MAC Studio examines these and other groundbreaking changes in the relation between design and actual construction.
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June 2004 Event
Date: Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm ET
Location: Center for Architecture. Main Lecture Hall (Lower Level) 536 LaGuardia Place (Between Bleecker and W.3rd Street), NYC
‘The New Digital Practice: Exploring the Work of KOL/MAC Studio’ – 2.0 CEU’s
Speaker: William Mac Donald, Principal, KOL/MAC Studio, New York
What does a practice based on digital methodologies look like; how does it operate, and what type of work does it produce?
Since its inception, the firm of Kolatan and MacDonald has produced a series of projects of entirely different scales and situations with each one addressing a number of issues concerning architectural culture today. KOL/MAC Studio have diversified the firm’s scope to include buildings, architectural interiors, urban design, installations, worldwide web projects, and competitions. In so doing they have been able to pursue particular experimental and conceptual ideas while at the same time developing more general strategies for architecture and urbanism. All projects share an interest in - and reflect the firm’s focus on - the implications of new technologies on the practice of architecture both as a design profession and as a ‘building culture’.
The firm’s projects are generated entirely on the computer from the early conceptual phase, through schematic design, design development and construction documents. This affords a smooth interface between consultants and the subcontractors with whom the digital information is shared, and who work directly off of the architectural data not only to generate their own set of drawings but (in the case of subcontractors) actually make the various building parts themselves. KOL/ MAC Studio examines these and other groundbreaking changes in the relation between design and actual construction.
Transportation: 6/F/S/V Trains to Bleecker St./B’Way-Lafayette (Walk 3 blocks West+1 block North)
N,R Trains to Prince St (Walk 2 blocks West+2 blocks North)
A/C/E/F/V/S Trains to W4th St (Walk 3 blocks East+1 block South)
PLEASE NOTE: SEATING FOR THIS EVENT IS LIMITED. YOU MUST RSVP ([email protected]) IN ORDER TO ATTEND. Admission: FREE
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