Epic Architecture: The Book of Sins

Date: 

Thursday, April 12, 2018, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Room 124

Cristina Goberna Pesudo will present the work of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (FKAA), an architectural practice based in Barcelona, New York, and Sydney, and her ongoing research project The Book of Sins based on the idea of Epic Architecture.

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Cristina Goberna Pesudo is a practitioner architect, educator, and critic. She is a founding partner of Fake Industries, Architectural Agonism (FKAA), an architectural practice of horizontal structure and collaborative nature based in Barcelona, New York and Sydney. Cristina completed a 7-year Bachelors Degree in Architecture at the University of Seville, Spain. As a Fulbright Scholar she was awarded an MS. in Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) and an Advanced Architectural Research (AAR) certificate by GSAPP in Columbia University. In 2010 she was a visiting scholar at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, thanks to a Caja Madrid Fellowship. She is a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, where she is developing her dissertation around the construction of the EU Urban Imaginary though the PAN and Europan competitions. After five years as an Adjunct Professor at GSAPP of Columbia University in New York, she is now a Senior Lecturer Professor at Sydney UTS, a Visiting Professor at the MIT School of Architecture, and recent juror in EUROPAN 13 Norway. Cristina’s work has been exhibited internationally and her projects and writings have been published widely.

Fake Industries Architectural Agonism was awarded with the 2009 Young Architects Forum Prize by the Architectural League of New York and the 2014-15 American Institute of Architects New Practices Prize. FKAA won the EUROPAN competition in 2003, 2005, 2009, 2012 and the international competition to build the New Velodrome for Medellin, currently under construction. In 2014 they were finalist in the Design Basel/Miami Pavilion contest and in MOMA PS1 Young Architects Program. FKAA was one of the 6 shortlisted teams in the Guggenheim Helsinki Museum competition. In 2015 the Chicago Art Institute acquired models and images from

FKAA+MAIO’s PS1 Young Architects Program finalist entry for its Architecture permanent collection and The Pompidou Center in Paris acquired models and drawings of the Velodrome for the City of Medellin for its permanent collection. In 2015 FKAA was invited to participate in the Chicago Architecture Art Biennial, in 2016 it was invited to participate in the Spanish pavilion in the Venice Biennial (recipient of the Golden Lion Prize), in the Oslo Architectural Triennial and the Istanbul design Biennial. In 2017 FKAA was a guest exhibitor at the Seoul Architectural Biennale and at the Chicago Architectural Biennial

Speaker: Cristina Goberna Pesudo, Fake Industries; Architectural Agonism

Sponsors: RCC; Harvard Graduate School of Design; Design@RCC; SpainGSD; Women in Design