Authors In Architecture: bracket [issue #1: on farming - Texas]

Authors in Architecture: October 2010

[bracket] architecture, environment, digital culture [issue #1: on farming] presented by Texas Contributors Neeraj Bhatia, Jason Sowell, and Ned Dodington.

Neeraj Bhatia received his Masters of Architecture + Urban Design from MIT. He has worked for Eisenman Architects, Coop Himmelblau, Bruce Mau Design, OMA, ORG and Lateral Office and has taught at the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto, and was most recently awarded the 2010-2011 Wortham Teaching Fellowship at Rice University. His research has been published in Volume/Archis, Thresholds, Footprint, and Yale Perspecta. He is co-editor of 'Arium: Weather + Architecture' (with Jürgen Mayer H., Hatje Cantz Publishing, 2009), which examines the relationship of building and weather. In 2008, Neeraj became a co-director of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. The Lab’s research into urban infrastructures will be published in Pamphlet Architecture 30 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Neeraj received the 2010 Lawrence B. Anderson Award to document traditional and con temporary housing in the Canadian Arctic.

Jason Sowell is an assistant professor in the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. His research and design work engage questions of infrastructure and measure. His projects have received several awards and have been exhibited both nationally and internationally; The University of Texas at Austin’s counterMEASURES [co-designed with Nichole Wiedemann] and Cleveland Design Competition 2007 2nd place [co-designed with Hope Hasbrouck]. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee, and a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Ned Dodington received a B.A. in Art History from Carleton College in 2003 and an M.Arch from Rice University in 2009. While at Rice, Ned devoted his graduate career to studying potential points of architectural design intervention in biological systems. His work has been published in Architectural Design Magazine, Texas Architect, Rice Working, and the Columbia University GSAP yearly review, and he has written for The Architectural Society in New York, Manifold Magazine, and the Houstonist. His built installations have been shown in Minnesota and Houston. He has been awarded both the Technos international traveling fellowship in 2002 and the Mitchel Travel Fellowship in 2006. Ned is currently employed at PDR in Houston, Texas and manages two small businesses devoted to fostering creative communities in Houston, Caroline Collective and C2Creative.

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

Architechure Center Houston 315 Capitol, Suite 120 Houston, Texas 77002

Debuting in January 2009, 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.