Cristina Parreño will discuss her work Transtectonics, an ongoing research developing “tectonic translations” as a venue for architectural inquiry and experimentation. Transtectonics examines the different connotation that the term “tectonics” has in other disciplines and works to create the freedoms that would enable us to move seamlessly across these different meanings, translating them into architecture. The series “Material Transtectonics” examines the term “tectonics” from the discipline of architecture. Through a series of open-ended material experiments that question the ways in which we process materials today, “Material Transtectonics” steps out of the conventional systems of assembly in order to enable the processes of construction to be part of the process of experimentation. The experiments aim to expand the ways in which we relate to advanced fabrication technologies by going back to the time-honored crafts of blowing glass, casting metal and carving stone; exploring nonconventional assemblies of materials through unorthodox tectonic translations that put in dialogue the old ways of making with the new digital tools at our disposal today.
Speaker: Cristina Parreño Alonso, Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning at MIT; Cristina Parreño Architecture.
Sponsors: RCC; Design@RCC; Spain@GSD.
LOCATION:Gund Hall, Room 111, Harvard University Graduate School of Design STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190417T223000Z DTEND:20190417T233000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR