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WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York City known for their integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Weiss/Manfredi received the Academy Award in Architecture, an award given annually by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, acknowledging the distinct vision of the firm. They were also named one of North America's "Emerging Voices" by the Architectural League of New York and the firm won the New York City AIA Gold Medal of Honor. Their Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, the winner of an international competition, was recognized as the Nature category winner at Barcelona's World Architecture Festival, won the Best in Category by the ID Magazine Environments Design Awards, and was the first North American project to be awarded Harvard University's Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. The recently opened Diana Center, a new multi-use arts building at Barnard College, is the winner of a national design competition and a Progressive Architecture Award, the center establishes a new nexus for social, cultural, and intellectual life for the campus and city. Weiss/Manfredi recently won the international competition to design the Taekwondo Park in Muju, Korea, and is working on a new campus for Aga Khan University in East Africa, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center. The firm has won numerous awards and competitions and has been featured in ...

In a world where urbanisation, globalisation, and mobility emphasise the individuality of places, it is important to understand how unusual and unfamiliar spaces can have a positive effect on culture and society in everyday life. Just as cultural alterity enriches the urban experience, so too can spaces be enriched by diversity. The unpredictable, the fantastic, the unimaginable are aspects of difference that have a rich and provocative history, and when incorporated into places, become a source of delight. In his Knowledge Works lecture, Dr Thomas Mical will present a variety of international, historical and cultural examples of cities and spaces that are both real and imaginary - including, Chicago, Berlin, London and Delhi - as a way of framing the potentiality of alterity to become a projective source of pleasure. Examples of spatial alterity from sources in literature, art, philosophy, architecture, and urbanism, which include medieval pleasure gardens, Baroque architecture, and Asian-European hybridity will also be outlined. Join us for this insightful lecture to learn how the the spaces we dwell in are enriched through the recognition and respect of the liberation of alterity. Dr. Thomas Mical has recently joined the University of South Australia's School of Art, Architecture, and Design as the Associate Professor of Architecture. He holds a professional Master of Architecture from Harvard University, and a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has ...

This video provides commentary from an academic about this first-year subject in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). It offersinformation about the subject as well as overall advice and resources to help commencing students with their first-year experience. For more information on this subject, visit: www.handbook.uts.edu.au To find links to other resources for current UTS students, visit: www.uts.edu.au

Architectural woodcarving of Art For Everyday.