Faculty from Texas A&M’s College of Architecture debated aspects of architecture’s future Sept. 11 in the Dutch Pavilion at the 2008 Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. The discussions were part of a weeklong project, “ARCHIPHOENIX,” hailed by organizers as a stage for research and exploration, as well as a debate platform focusing on the capacities and capabilities of architecture beyond building.
Peter Lang, an assistant professor of architecture who teaches for the Texas A&M College of Architecture at the Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, moderated a roundtable discussion titled “Beyond the Artifact: What we Make,” in which an international panel of architects debated “the product and outcome of architecture beyond building.”
Also participating in the Dutch Pavilion discussions was Pliny Fisk, associate professor of architecture and landscape architecture. Fisk engaged four European architects in a roundtable discussion titled “Beyond the Sustainable: Challenging the Flow of Resources, Materials and People.” The panel mulled what “radical ecology impies for architecture?”
Both sessions, and others can be viewed in their entirety in streaming video available on the Netherlands Architecture Institute website at www.facultiesforarchitecture.org.
