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| GDNYU was established to highlight innovative design with an emphasis on contextual practice, a sense of place and an eco-sensitive approach. Spanning architecture, urbanism and design, this lecture and exhibition series has been created to explore what it means to be experimental today, how architects utilitize research and conceptual design and, above all, how these approaches shape our response to the city that surrounds us.
Most of the practices involved in GDNYU London have a base in Europe, but their work and concerns speak to an international audience. The exhibition is wide-ranging, offering a variety of different approaches to the relationship between research and reality. A few years ago, much of the architecture on display would have been the preserve of fantasy, such as the eye-catching streamlined and stylised forms of Berlin-based practice J. Mayer H. and the provocatively distinctive forms by young studios such as Bloom and Atmos. Major advances in design and construction technology have transformed the architect's palette. At the same time, a new rigour and simplicity is emerging, epitomised in work like the pragmatic, clean and functional creations of London firm David Kohn Architects. The widespread use of digital tools might suggest the slow disappearance of regional variations in architectural design. Yet as the exhibition demonstrates, the opposite is true, as the intersection between research and practice has seen the emergence of several local trends. At first glance this diverse selection of offices seem to have no obvious common denominator. However, their connections are under the skin, in the ways in which architecture culture has learnt to accommodate the digital diaspora in order to produce designs that are not only fit for purpose and truly appropriate for the 21st century, but which are born out of a tailor-made, experimental outlook. At the heart of this emerging work is the tendency for architects to draw inspiration from each project's physical and social locale, be it through direct research or the sharing of ideas and approaches. The architectural sensitivity and research-based approach these practices share is irrespective of office size or place of origin. At GDNYU, young and dynamic London-based practices such as Studio Weave and Aberrant Architecture sit side by side with larger international studios such as Denmark-based BIG. The work they showcase is rooted in its socio-geographical context and local tradition, as much as it is inspired by modern technology and innovation. It takes the global architectural debate about sustainability and creativity to the next level while simultaneously having a strong sense of the local conditions that shape plan, form and programme. GDNYU Directors Louise Harpman and Mitchell Joachim are each principals of research-focused practices in New York, while Peder Anker is an historian of science who writes about technology and the environment. This initiative is aiming high, looking to build an informal network of like-minded architects to promote relevant discourse. Their own participation is key to their approach. Accordingly, Specht Harpman (the firm Harpman co-directs with partner Scott Specht) is presenting its most updated version of the zerohouse concept, a versatile prefabricated solar dwelling with a net-zero energy profile, while Mitchell Joachim's Terreform ONE studio is exhibiting Urbaneering Brooklyn 2110, one of several futuristic visions of the city developed by the practice, all of which address real, site-specific urban issues such as waste, mobility and shelter. Never before has there been such a strong sense of a global architecture community. Whereas the connections and cross-pollinations that shaped the common threads in International Modernism over half a century ago were driven by the physical movement of architects around the world, today's debate is instant and universal. The digital realm has brought architecture to a wider audience, and it has brought a hitherto unprecedented amount of data and feedback into the architectural process. GDNYU is about this process and methodology, translating the virtual into the real. Issues are shared, as are responses, and the potential for collaboration and conversation vastly increased. GDNYU London presents architecture with a strong human focus, examining how contemporary methods of research and practice distill global concerns into a local context. Bringing together academics, architects, urbanists and historians, this exhibition and lecture series will include work of all scales - from small installations to larger building work, landscape and urban design - and explore different applications of environmentally-friendly design within them. Organised by the New York University and the Gallatin School of Individualised Study, GDNYU began with a symposium and display in New York in 2011 and will follow up the 2012 London edition with similar showcases in 2013 and 2014. Upcoming events will take place in the Far East, the Middle East and South America. Casting the net far and wide across the globe, GDNYU is committed to raising the bar for an ongoing, stimulating interdisciplinary discussion about cities, ecology and design. Jonathan Bell Ellie Stathaki |
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| New London Architecture London Design Festival NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study NYU London Study Abroad Site |
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| Opening Party 20 SEPTEMBER 6:30-9:00PM Closing Party 19 OCTOBER 6:30-8:00PM |
| LONDON 2012 Exhibit + Symposium |
| Exhibit at NLA The Building Centre 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT |
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| We are pleased to host GLOBAL Design NYU in London this fall, from 20 September--19 October in partnership with New London Architecture at the Building Centre.
In our second year, GDNYU London brings together leading-edge architects, landscape architects, urbanists, historians, scientists, and theorists to showcase and discuss their current work. PARTICIPANTS Aberrant atmos ACME AWP BIG Biothing BLOOM Code Creus e Carrasco David Kohn Doxiadis + Eriksen + Skajaa Fantastic Norway Haugen/Zohar HHF Jurgen Mayer LAVA Magnus Larsson Mi5 MMW Nina Edwards Anker OSA Rachel Armstrong New Territories Raumlabor Berlin Serie SLA Snohetta Specht Harpman StudioWeave Terreform ONE Topotek1 |
| Oct 19th Symposium 12-6pm at NYU London, 6 Bedford Square: atmos ACME AWP Biothing/ BLOOM Creus e Carrasco David Kohn Doxiadis + Groundlab Eriksen + Skajaa HHF Magnus Larsson NEA OSA Peder Anker Rachel Armstrong Specht Harpman Terreform ONE ---------------------------------------------------- PAST SHOW 2011 GDNYU New York NYU Gallatin Labowitz Main Gallery One Washington Place New York, NY 10003 May 25 Opening Night 6pm -9pm 6:30pm Welcome Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, Mitchell Joachim 6:45-7:30pm Keynote Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto 7:30-8:30pm DJ Spooky String Quartet May 26th Symposium 9am-6:30pm 9:30-10:00am Breakfast 10:00am Welcome Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, Mitchell Joachim 10:05 -11:00am Responsive Ecology Alexander Felson Francois Roche Philip Beesley Scott Specht Peder Anker, moderator 11:00am-12:45pm New Futures Rachel Armstrong Chris Perry & Cathryn Dwyre Ioanna Theocharopoulou Mason White Nancy Levinson, moderator 12:45pm -2pm Lunch (8th Floor) 2:00-3:15pm Code Envisioned Evan Douglis Marc Fornes Michael Silver Axel Kilian Mitchell Joachim, moderator 3:30-4:45pm Environments Elsewhere Richard Sommer David Ruy Ed Keller & Carla Leitao Jonathan Massey Louise Harpman, moderator 5:15-6:05pm Keynote World According to Architecture Hashim Sarkis Mitchell Joachim, moderator |
