Mar. 12 | AIA SH|BJ | Masters Lecture Series: Marlon Blackwell
AIA GOLD MEDAL 2020
AIA Shanghai | Beijing presents the Master Lecture Series: Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, who received the AIA Gold Medal 2020, one of architecture’s highest honors, awarded annually to architects in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Join this prestigious live-streaming lecture at the Yale Center in Beijing, followed by a Q&A and networking session. Light refreshments will be served for those attending the live event. Limited seats available, registration will come on a first-come, first-served basis.
Lecture Topic | 讲座主题
“Abstract Unions”
Speaker | 演讲者: Marlon Blackwell
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, is a practicing architect in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and serves as the E. Fay Jones Distinguished Professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. M. Blackwell is a lifetime member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is the recipient of the 2020 AIA Gold Medal, the Institute’s highest honor, which recognizes those whose work has had an enduring impact on the theory and practice of architecture. He was a 2019 William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, inducted into the 2018 National Academy of Design, and selected as a 2014 United States Artists Ford Fellow. He received the E. Fay Jones Gold Medal from the Arkansas AIA in 2017 and the 2012 Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Work produced in his professional office, Marlon Blackwell Architects (MBA), has received national and international recognition with significant publication in books, architectural journals and magazines and more than 140 domestic and international awards. MBA received the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture and ranked #1 in Design as part of the 2016 Architect 50. A monograph of Marlon’s early work, “An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell”, was published in 2005 by Princeton Architectural Press, who will also publish a new monograph titled “Radical Practice” to be released in 2022.
Lecture Summary | 讲座摘要
Marlon Blackwell, working outside the architectural mainstream, will discuss his architecture and design process as being based in design strategies that draw upon vernaculars, building typologies and the contradictions of place; strategies that seek to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture. Rather than a removal from reality, abstraction is the process of connecting to place, looking for possibilities of maximum meaning with minimal means. Blackwell will demonstrate how these ideas of reinterpreting the familiar are generated from careful observations of intersections of nature-made and culture-made conditions particular to an architectural situation. Using examples of selected design works from his firm, Marlon Blackwell Architects, he will speak to a resilient architecture that can be achieved as interplay between details, form, and place. In particular, he will illustrate the necessity of being responsive to environmental factors, the specificities of place, and material culture that ultimately provide an architecture that can be felt as much as it is understood, as immediate and tactile as it is legible, contributing to the fundamental civic dignity of communities.
作为游离于建筑主流之外的建筑师，Marlon Blackwell在其建筑和设计过程中体现出一种基于地域要素、建筑类型和场所矛盾的设计策略，以及一种寻求超越传统建筑界限的设计策略。抽象不是脱离现实，而是与场所连接的过程；寻找用最少的手法实现最大意义的可能性。通过仔细观察建筑环境所特有的自然条件和文化条件的交汇，Marlon Blackwell将展示其重新诠释熟悉事物的想法是如何产生的。他将以Marlon Blackwell Architects建筑事务所的精选设计作品为例，讲述可以通过建筑细部、形态和场所之间的相互作用来实现的韧性建筑。他将重点阐释对于环境因素、地域特殊性和物质风貌做出反应的必要性。这些价值观最终为我们展现出一种被理解的同时可以被感知、被识读的同时可以被触及的建筑。这将有助于提升社区基本的公民尊严。
Event Schedule | 活动安排
09:30-09:50 AM
Check In
10:00-10:10 AM
Welcome - Hosted by Na Wei (YSoA'04)
Introduction: AIA Shanghai | Beijing:
Kathy Zhu-Schleiss, Anderson Hsieh & Francois Chimier
10:10-11:25 AM
Live Broadcast of Master Lecture: Marlon Blackwell
11:25-11:45 AM
Moderated Discussion: Seechen Chang
11:45-11:50 AM
Closing Remarks & Thanks: Na Wei
11:50-12:30 PM
Networking
Admission | 门票
AIA Members: Free
Non-Members: 100rmb
Students: 60 RMB (with valid student cards)
All architecture/ engineering/ construction students and professionals are welcome!
Event Location | 活动地址
Yale Center Beijing
36th Floor, Tower B, IFC, 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue, Beijing
耶鲁北京中心，北京市朝阳区建国门外大街8号国际财源中心B座36层
Time | 时间
Saturday, 12 March 2022, 10am (Beijing time)
Friday, 11 March 2022, 8pm (US Central time)
（北京时间) 2022年3月12日, 星期六早上10点
（美国时间) 2022年3月11日, 星期五早上8点
Registration | 报名
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