Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. In this interview, he talks about his work on 21st-century cities and the "on-demand" economy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2015-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This will be fairly tutorial and aim to accessibly describe progress on a theory of network architecture relevant to neuroscience, biology, medicine and technology (particularly SDN/NFV and cyberphysical systems), initially focusing on the common motivations from these subjects. Key ideas are motivated by familiar examples from neuroscience, inc...
Creator:
Doyle, John C.
Created:
2015-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
100 Years of Student Drawings Celebrating the reopening of Northrop Hall and the Centennial of the School of Architecture, the exhibition 100 Years of Student Drawings displays drawings from the Beaux-Arts era through the digital age, showing a range of building types, media, and individual expression, including two drawings by two Monuments Men...
Framing Los Angeles, 1960: Case Study House #22 and the Photography of Whiteness One of the most famous architectural representations of the 20th century is Julius Shulman's photograph of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 (1960). In this lecture, Dianne Harris examines this iconic image, asking new questions about what this seemingly well-kno...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Harris, Dianne
Created:
2014-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Framing Los Angeles, 1960: Case Study House #22 and the Photography of Whiteness One of the most famous architectural representations of the 20th century is Julius Shulman's photograph of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 (1960). In this lecture, Dianne Harris examines this iconic image, asking new questions about what this seemingly well-kno...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Harris, Dianne
Created:
2014-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Many of today's most striking buildings are nontraditional freeform shapes. While using current modeling tools to digitally design freeform geometry is well understood, fabrication on the architectural scale is a big challenge, providing a rich source of research topics in geometry and geometric computing. Pottmann will provide an overview of re...
Creator:
Pottmann, Helmut (Technische Universität Wien)
Created:
2014-04-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The Tao of Urban Rejuvenation: Building a Livable Creative Urban Village Building livable, creative, equitable, and sustainable cities is a common community goal, but drawing from several disciplines to achieve it may pose considerable challenge. Public/private partnership is popular today, but making it work in a complex world is difficult. In ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lu, Weiming
Created:
2014-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Tao of Urban Rejuvenation: Building a Livable Creative Urban Village Building livable, creative, equitable, and sustainable cities is a common community goal, but drawing from several disciplines to achieve it may pose considerable challenge. Public/private partnership is popular today, but making it work in a complex world is difficult. In ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lu, Weiming
Created:
2014-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anne Hake talks to Peter Shea about her work in Port-au-Prince for three months with the American Refugee Committee researching opportunities for permanent housing solutions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hake, Anne
Created:
2011-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Blaine Brownell talks to Peter Shea about his conception of sustainable architecture, and architectural opportunities after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brownell, Blaine
Created:
2011-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Rose talks to Peter Shea about his artistic interests and some themes that unite his work, such as the intersections of architecture and memory.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rose, Thomas
Created:
2011-08-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 5: Expression and Anonymity. Join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities. Artistic thinking freely ranges across the philosophical and experiential ground of the arts from...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh; Kuftinec, Sonja; Pallasmaa, Juhani
Created:
2010-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 1: Image and Meaning. Join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities. Artistic thinking freely ranges across the philosophical and experiential ground of the arts from poetry...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Blocker, Jane; Fondakowski, Leigh; Pallasmaa, Juhani
Created:
2010-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 6: Imagination and Compassion. Join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities. Artistic thinking freely ranges across the philosophical and experiential ground of the arts fr...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh; Hodges, David; Pallasmaa, Juhani
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 3: Reality and Fiction. Join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities. Artistic thinking freely ranges across the philosophical and experiential ground of the arts from poet...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh; Pallasmaa, Juhani; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2010-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 4: Time and Timelessness. Join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities. Artistic thinking freely ranges across the philosophical and experiential ground of the arts from po...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh; Lukkas, Lynn; Pallasmaa, Juhani
Created:
2010-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bill Foley and Andrea Stanislav talk to Peter Shea about their recent research trip to Dubai, and an upcoming multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, global pluralism, and Dubai's highly ambitious architecture.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dubai, Inc.. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Bill Foley and Andréa Stanislav, Department of Art, discuss and present images from their recent research trip to Dubai. Their work in progress will be realized as a multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, glo...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dubai, Inc.. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Bill Foley and Andréa Stanislav, Department of Art, discuss and present images from their recent research trip to Dubai. Their work in progress will be realized as a multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, glo...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anesthesia; or, The Chair as Image. Q&A. John Harwood begins his remarks on the chair with a Theodore Roethke poem: A funny thing about a chair, / You hardly ever think it's there. / To know a Chair is really it, / You sometimes have to go and sit. With a bit of good humor, Harwood traces the history of the chair—from the ancient Egyptians who...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Harwood, John
Created:
2009-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anesthesia; or, The Chair as Image. Talk. John Harwood begins his remarks on the chair with a Theodore Roethke poem: A funny thing about a chair, / You hardly ever think it's there. / To know a Chair is really it, / You sometimes have to go and sit. With a bit of good humor, Harwood traces the history of the chair—from the ancient Egyptians wh...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Harwood, John
Created:
2009-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eric Van Duzer talks to Peter Shea about his collaborative research with his sister, Leslie Van Duzer, into the similarities of magic trick and architectural design.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Van Duzer, Eric
Created:
2008-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Time Frames: The Past in the Present. How we experience time is the primary interest of this project -- the fictions and narratives of time embodied in architecture. Time Frames is the attempt to provide a view of architecture through the frame of time -- the distance from what the structures were in their own time to Rose's reading now, how tim...
Creator:
Rose, Thomas
Contributor:
Danto, Elizabeth Ann; Goebel, John
Created:
2008-03-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Marion Mahony. Presentation on Women in Architecture by Dr. Elizabeth Birmingham of Northwestern University at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Birmingham, Elizabeth
Created:
2007-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Former Bohemian Presbyterian Church, 1474 Hickory St., Omaha, Nebraska. Czech language services ended in 1980. Today it is home to Templo Victoria and Spanish language services.
Creator:
Moore, Erik
Created:
2002
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Former Bohemian Presbyterian Church, 1474 Hickory St., Omaha, Nebraska. Czech language services ended in 1980. Today it is home to Templo Victoria and Spanish language services.
Creator:
Moore, Erik
Created:
2002
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.