AUTHORS IN ARCHITECTURE: Plat 1.0 IMPOSTER

Co-Editors Seanna Walsh, Marti Gottsch, Melissa McDonnell will present PLAT 1.0 IMPOSTER at Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) Thursday, February 17.

6pm – Authors’ Presentations
7pm – Reception and Book Signing

PLAT 1.0: IMPOSTER
PLAT 1.0 is a survey of characters, practices, and conditions of the Impostor in architecture. Through essays, projects, drawings and interviews, PLAT 1.0 interrogates notions of real and fake, proffering new interpretations of architecture's tendency toward interdisciplinarity. The impostor is most conventionally a character—one who passes herself off as someone other than she really is. This topic generates a stage for not only the characters that deceive us, but also for the architecture that dupes us. What is it about the character of impostor that applies to architecture, both in practice and in form? Behind the impostor’s artful disguise is a space of innovation. The elegant crimes of the impostor can serve as provocations for architecture, moving the discipline beyond the boundaries of convention.

PLAT is a journal produced by students at the Rice School of Architecture. PLAT brings the work of the Rice School of Architecture together with a broad range of faculty, students and practitioners throughout the world.

Other contributors of PLAT 1.0: IMPOSTER are Edward Bae, Giorgio Angelini, Mary Ellen Carroll, Justin Smith, Penelope Boyer, Dustin Tobias, Shota Ishii, Margaret Maile Petty, Kate Morgan, Dustin Valen, Sara Hieb, Tracy Bremer, Justin Brammer, Albert Pope, Troy Schaum, Moira Henry, Kyle Miller, Jack Brough, Jessie Cronstein, Matthew Austin.

www.aiahouston.org/ArCH www.platjournal.com

Authors in Architecture is a collaboration between the Houston Public Library Downtown and the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH). Our aim is to create a dialogue between these two cultural centers and their patrons. This series is free and open to the public.

ArCH is located downtown at 315 Capitol, Suite 120 on the corner of Bagby and Capitol. Parking is available in the Hobby Center parking garage located across the street with entrances on Rusk and Walker.