Communique 2015

Overview

Communiqué is an annual lecture series centred on issues relevant to the spatial arts of architecture and planning. This year's series is titled Bridging the Utopian and the Pragmatic, and has a deliberate intention to present an expansive view on these spatial subjects, featuring speakers drawn from a wide range of disciplines, industries and practices that engage with spatial issues.

The speakers for the series are school staff and senior research students, as well as visiting professionals and academics from New Zealand and around the world including: Gregor Hoheisel, Chris Bosse, Ross Jenner, Alessandro Melis, Severin Soder, Julia Gatley, Jinhee Park and John Hong. They will discuss both speculative and realised works by renowned contemporary architects canvassing the process of space-making; from ideas, to research and invention, to realisation, crossing between the utopian and the pragmatic.

The lecture schedule is as follows:

18 March
Gregor Hoheisel (GRAFT)
Distinct Ambiguity
The University of Auckland, Engineering Lecture Theatre 439, Building 401, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City

26 March
Chris Bosse (LAVA)
Digital Cathedrals and the City of the Future
The University of Auckland, Engineering Lecture Theatre 404, Building 403, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City

22 April
Ross Jenner (University of Auckland)
Aires Mateus: Airs and Solids
NICAI Conference Centre Lecture Theatre: Room 342, Building 423, 22 Symonds St. Auckland City

29 April
Alessandro Melis (Heliopolis21-UoA)
Get Fired? Not Today!
 The University of Auckland, Engineering Lecture Theatre 403, Building 403, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City

13 May
Severin Soder (Architectus)
Imagined
The University of Auckland, Engineering Lecture Theatre 439, Building 401, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City

20 May
Julia Gatley (University of Auckland)
Reflections on a Provocateur: Sir Ian Athfield (1940-2015)
NICAI Conference Centre Lecture Theatre: Room 342, Building 423, 22 Symonds St. Auckland City

27 May
Jinhee Park & John Hong (Single Speed Design)
Micro Urbanism
The University of Auckland, Engineering Lecture Theatre 439, Building 401, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City