Compositional Physics and Other Forms of Disorder, an exhibition and symposium organized by Rice Architecture Wortham Fellow Viola Ago, invites critics, theorists, and designers to argue, articulate, and think through projects of compositional physics in architecture in relationship to current cultural, technological, and pedagogical conditions.
The two-day event kicks off Thursday, February 20, at 5:00 p.m., with an opening reception for the Watkin Seminar Student Exhibition in Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, at Rice University. Following the reception at 6:00 p.m., Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Ph.D., associate professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University, presents the keynote lecture "A Technical History of Form."
The symposium will be held Friday, February 21, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., with panelists Michael Abrahamson, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor, University of Utah; Viola Ago (organizer and moderator) Wortham Fellow and director of Miracles Architecture; Scott Colman, Ph.D., assistant professor and thesis coordinator, Rice Architecture (moderator); Jeff Halstead, director, Jeff Halstead Design; Anna Neimark, principal, First Office, and faculty, Sci-Arc; and Hans Tursack, Pietro Bellusci Fellow, MIT.