Symposium Pavilion 1 - Marjan Colletti & Shajay Bhooshan

Topic: Adaptive strategies in architecture.

Entry: Free

PROGRAM:

11 a.m. - Exhibition opening of the outputs from the workshop Pavilion 1 / Workshop & Symposium

1 p.m. ► lecture ► Shajay Bhooshan* (AA DRL, ZHA CoDe), discussion

3 p.m. ► lecture ► Marjan Coletti** (Bartlett – UCL, Exp.Arch Hochbau Innsbruck), discussion

Shajay Bhooshan

Shajay is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich, where he is a research assistant in the Block Research Group. He also heads the research activities of the Computation and Design (co|de) group at Zaha Hadid Architects, London and works as a studio master at the AA DRL Master’s program.
Previously, he worked at Populous, London and completed his Master’s Degree at the AA School of Architecture, London in 2006. He has taught and presented work at various events and institutions including Tensinet Istanbul '13, ICFF Bath ‘12 , Designers Gallery AU ’11, Design computation symposium AU ‘10 , simAUD ‘10 , Siggraph ‘08, Yale University and University of Applied Arts , Vienna.
His current interests & responsibilities include developing design research and maintaining computational platforms for the same at ZHA.

Marjan Colletti

He is University Professor at the University of Innsbruck Austria and Head of the Institute for Experimental Architecture, and in parallel Senior Lecturer in architecture and Director of Computing at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, where he currently also runs MArch Unit 20 (best unit in show 2000, 2006, 2007, 2013), and supervises MPhil/PhDs at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. He has been a Visiting Professor at the TU Vienna Austria (2011/12), UT Arlington Texas US (2010), UCLA Los Angeles US (2010), University of Innsbruck (2007); workshop instructor in Taichung, Taiwan (2x), Copenhagen, Oslo and Paris. He has also been a Senior Lecturer at Westminster University in London (diploma studio DS10), Guest Lecturer at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, and Digital Augmentation Course tutor at the Royal College of Art London.

He has also curated Bartlett exhibitions in Florence, Prague, Bratislava and Kosice. His studio work includes a won competition for a 180.000m2 entertainment complex in front of the gates of the Summer Palace in Beijing, the built pavilions and general layout for the 2005 Lisbon Book Fair, visited by 2 million people in 2 weeks, and the Alga(e)zebo pavilion in London for the Mayor of London in concurrence with the London 2012 London Olympics. They are currently working on a 142.000m2 high-rise in Taipei Taiwan.

He is the author of Digital Poetics. An Open Theory of Design-Research in Architecture (Ashgate), guest-editor of the 80th anniversary issue of AD Architectural Design Exuberance (Wiley), co-editor of Research Projects 2009 (Bartlett UCL), co-author of marcosandmarjan: Interfaces/Intrafaces (SpringerWienNewYork), author of 2&1/2D Twoandahalf Dimensionality (Bucher Hohenems) and of the forthcoming book Digital Poetics (Ashgate Publishing). He has exhibited in approx. 60 exhibitions worldwide, is regular guest critic and lecturer internationally, and reviewer for the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation - New Eurasia Foundation, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Journal of Cultural Economy, Ashgate Publishing, American University of Sharjah United Arab Emirates, Queen's University Belfast and Universität Innsbruck, ICESEP 2013 China, ROB/ARCH2012 Austria, (en)coding architecture USA, Initiative Architektur Salzburg Austria, Smartgeometry 2012 etc.