Building Life Workshop
Co-presented by the Humanities Council and Princeton University School of Architecture
Princeton University students, faculty and staff, please join us. This event is open to all PU ID holders.
Papers and projects by former participants of the Building Life and Non/Human seminars taught in the School of Architecture from 2016 to 2021.
Friday, November 3, 10am to 6pm
School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium
Princeton University
Doors open at 9:30am
Coffee at the SoA Gallery
Welcome / Opening remarks
10:00am to 10:10am
Spyros Papapetros (Princeton, SoA)
Panel 1: Fielding
10:05am – 11:20am
Nancy Ai Backyard Science: Borrowing Domestic Methods of Containment
Ruo Jia (Pratt Institute) Water Life/Condition: Forgetting and Forming
Ryan Roark (IIT, Chicago) Building with Shellfish and Algae: Curtains for Crown Hall
Response by Lydia Kallipoliti (Cooper Union/Princeton, SoA)
Panel 2: Exhibiting/Modelling
11:20pm – 1:00pm
Diana Cristobal-Olave (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Architecture) Walk-in Cells and Blinking Brains: Architecture Techniques for Biological Research
Lluís Casanovas-Blanco (Reina Sofia Art Museum, Madrid) Peripheral Vision: José Val del Omar and the Laboratorio de Biocibernética de Madrid
Xhulio Binjaku (Princeton, SoA) Building Island Biogeography
Patrick Jaojoco (Princeton, SoA) Models for Globalization in the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples
Response by Sophia Roosth (NYU, Gallatin)
Lunch Break 1:00pm to 1:40pm
Panel 3: Instituting
1:40pm – 3:00pm
Anna Renken (U. Toronto, Architecture) From “Natural Objects” to Environmental Systems: Transformations of the Design Laboratory
Tairan An (Princeton, SoA) The Biological Education of Liang Sicheng
Maxwell Holmes-Smith (Princeton, SoA) Dredging Darkness: Nature and the Bathysphere at the New York Zoological Society.
Response by Ed Eigen (Harvard, GSD)
Panel 4: Un/Wildling
3:10pm – 4:30pm
Jocelyn Beausire (Princeton, SoA) Decay and Disruption: The Reterritorializing Potential of Museological Dust
Jessica H. Ngan (Columbia, GSAAP/Princeton) Where Species Meet: Agricultural Encounters at Domino’s Farm
Rami Kanafani (U. Penn, Architecture) The Green Line’s Organisms: Human-Plant Relations in War-Torn Beirut
Response by Rachel Price (Princeton, Spanish & Portuguese)
Panel 5: Projecting
4:35pm – 5:55pm
José Ibarra (U. Colorado, Denver, Architecture) Thinking with Non-Life: Process, Accident, and Deep Time
Deborah Garcia (Yale, SoA) MACHINES MOTION MEMORY, GAPS GLITCH GOTCHA
Joon Ma (one-aftr, Seoul) Practice, Observing Fields
Response by Sylvia Lavin (Princeton, SoA)
