Resilient Patterns

Patterns in architecture slip between drawing, diagram, and building. They may be abstract or concrete, structural or decorative, digital or material, but above all they are systematic. Moving fluidly across scales of the design process, pattern has the capacity to maintain organizational resilience while mediating myriad forces that affect building. Patterns that accommodate organizations inherent to structure and material advance an architecture that resists existing modes of construction, enabling pattern to project novel structures imbued with specific character. This lecture is part of the fall lecture series at Cal Poly organized by Axel Schmitzberger on new forms of resistance in architecture. David Freeland is a principle at FreelandBuck, an architectural design firm established in 2009 based in Los Angeles and New York. He began teaching at Woodbury University in 2006 and is currently design faculty at SCI-Arc. The Los Angeles AIA selected his office as an emerging architectural voice in 2011 and his work has been widely recognized for its use of digital technology and fabrication to produce new spatial and atmospheric qualities in architecture. http://www.csupomona.edu/~arc/