Transscalar Architecture

Webinar On-Demand

Architectural Record’s 2023 Innovation Conference

Presented by Andrés Jaque

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Learning Objectives:

Learn that architectural buildings operate in an ecosystemic paradigm and are part of larger systems of relationships.
Understand that architectural objects are both being designed and designing in the way that the relate to other objects.
Understand that the move from a modern paradigm to an ecosystemic paradigm for architecture changes the nature of the design process.
Understand that architectural devices are environmental embodiments that connect the scale of bodies to the scale of the environment.

Credits:

1 AIA LU/HSW

0.1 IACET CEU*

1 AIBD P-CE

AAA 1 Structured Learning Hour

This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines

AAPEI 1 Structured Learning Hour

MAA 1 Structured Learning Hour

This course can be self-reported to the NLAA.

This course can be self-reported to the NSAA

NWTAA 1 Structured Learning Hour

OAA 1 Learning Hour

SAA 1 Hour of Core Learning

This course can be self-reported to the AIBC, as per their CE Guidelines.

As an IACET Accredited Provider, BNP Media offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
This course is approved as a Structured Course
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
Approved for structured learning
Approved for Core Learning
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA
Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA
Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours
This course is approved as a core course
This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia

In the past, architecture only acted at the scale of buildings. Transscalar architecture refers to the way architecture translates across scales of time and space. This approach to architecture is crucial to understanding how architecture is relevant now and how it is addressing contemporary questions of community, sustainability, and resilience.

Andrés Jaque's practice explores architecture as an entanglement of bodies, technologies, and environments. As an architect, researcher, and curator, his work approaches materiality as relational, trans-scalar, and intrinsically political. Jaque is Dean and Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and founder of the New York- and Madrid-based architecture practice Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN). He received his PhD in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and is the recipient of the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts (2016), the Silver Lion 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014), the Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize (2001–2006), among other recognitions.

Established in 2003, OFFPOLINN works at the intersection of research, architectural design, and activism. Notable recent projects include the Ocean Space for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Collection (TBA21), Venice; the Babin Yar Museum of Memory and Oblivion, Kiev; and the Colegio Reggio, Madrid (2022). Jaque’s work is exhibited and collected internationally. His performance-based works include Being Silica (Performa Biennial New York, 2021); IKEA Disobedients (MoMA, 2012); and Superpowers of Ten (multiple venues, 2016–2019). His publications include Superpowers of Scale (2020), PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (2013), and numerous other books, articles, and essays. Jaque was the chief curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020), and co-curator of Manifesta 12 Palermo (2018).