Two events in College of Architecture this week

calendar icon01 Sep 2014    

LINCOLN, NEB.--The College of Architecture has two special events on Friday, Sept. 19 that Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts faculty, students and staff are encouraged to attend.

The 2014-2015 Hyde Lecture Series kicks off Friday, Sept. 19 at 4:30 p.m. with a lecture by Robert Trempe, Hyde Chair of Excellence. The lecture will take place at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and is free and open to the public.

Trempe is an educator, design researcher and currently the College of Architecture's Hyde Chair of Excellence in architecture. He examines and tests emergent methods in design process, focusing on the relationships between new toolsets and the control / ownership / authorship of mechanic characteristic needed to graphically investigate, represent, and output constructions.

Thought of as the study of computational process itself, Trempe tests techniques in how we visually articulate concepts, the beauty (celebration) found in the visualization of information, and how the emergent information can serve as instruction towards design production. Of continual focus is the imprint or “maker’s mark” of the tools employed in production.

Trempe has lectured and exhibited extensively on these experiments at venues such as SIGGRAPH, ACADIA, Shape Modeling International, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and the journal HYPERSEEING. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with a focus on architecture, music history and theory from Hobart College and a Master of Architecture from the ​University of Pennsylvania.

Also happening on Friday, Sept. 19 is 2014 PARK(ing) DAY. For this global event, 2nd year architecture students will transform 12 ordinary parking stalls on UNL’s city campus into architectural installations. The installations will be on site from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Come and support the College of Architecture students and enjoy their work.

PARK(ing) DAY is an annual global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform parking spaces into temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. PARK(ing) DAY has evolved into a global movement, with organizations and individuals creating alternative forms of temporary public space in urban contexts around the world.