Please note this lecture will take place on a TUESDAY, not Thursday as usual
- Tuesday 24th October 2017, 6.30pm
- Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]
“Classificationing” will be a survey of Cantley’s recent experimental works, using the idea of the investigational drawing as a source code for emergent ideas. The lecture will explore technology as a generator for new social space[s]; the palimpsest as a vehicle to challenge architectural and quasi-religious structure; the prototype of the SwarmDraw, an inhabitable drawing concept; and the advent of the Taxonometric Drawing as an architectural typology. Cantley will discuss the categorizing of his work as an internal tool for dissecting content and finding new ways to produce further inventions. The idea of the drawing experiment is an underlying tenant of his studio, Form:uLA, as is the notion of the importance of internal inquiry.
Bryan Cantley is founder of Form:uLA, an experimental design practice that attempts to blur the indeterminate zone between architecture and its representation. An alumnus of UCLA, Cantley has lectured at a number of architecture schools internationally, and has been visiting faculty at SCI-ARC and Woodbury. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art purchased eleven of his models/drawings in 2001 as a part of their permanent collection, and he was the recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant in 2002. His celebrated solo exhibition “Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections” premiered at SCI-ARC in 2014. His first monograph, Mechudzu, was published in 2011.