Time and Place

Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building Commons

“Workshop No.03” presentation by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, founder, Holes of Matter, and lecturer in landscape architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Aleksandr Mergold, founder, Austin + Mergold, Ithaca, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and assistant professor, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning, Ithaca, New York.

Lopez-Pineiro and Mergold are 2017 Urban Edge Award recipients in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Lecture Summary

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro presents “Thins as Holes.” Aleksandr Mergold presents “American Spolia.”
The theme of the 2017 Urban Edge Award is FROM WASTE TO WONDER: Working with What Remains.

Bio

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro designs and writes about gaps found in everyday spaces and appearing due to mismatched relationships between social structures and spatial organizations. As the founder of Holes of Matter, he gives form to these gaps in buildings, landscapes, and cities. Lopez-Pineiro graduated from ETSAM (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid) in 1998 and received his M.Arch. degree from Princeton University in 2004, where he was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize. A registered architect in Spain, Lopez-Pineiro has worked at No.mad (Madrid, 1998-2000) and at Foreign Office Architects (London, 2000-2002). Lopez-Pineiro is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he held the 2014-15 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellowship. He has taught widely, primarily at the University at Buffalo, where he was the 2006-07 Reyner Banham Fellow. His work has been supported by several institutions such as the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and The MacDowell Colony, and has been published and featured in MAS Context, Bracket, arq: Architecture Research Quarterly, Places, 2G, and the Boston Globe, amongst others.

Bio

After a prolific tenure as senior architect with Pentagram, Aleksandr Mergold co-founded Austin+Mergold LLC, an architecture, landscape, and design practice. A+M is also a testing ground for Mergold’s research agenda, focusing on a “design-and-adapt” modus operandi — the contemporary interpretation of spolia, the repurposing of all that is mundane, common, available, and disposable in today’s construction, including infrastructure, technology, and resources. Educated at Cornell (B.Arch. ’00) and Princeton (M.Arch. ’03), Mergold has also taught at Parsons the New School for Design, Listaháskóli Íslands in Reykjavik, and in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the College of Human Ecology. At AAP, he teaches a series of design studios that focus on user-centered design, and a wide range of technical and representation courses. Mergold’s work has been published in a variety of media, including Architectural Record, Thresholds, Domus, The Architect’s Newspaper, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Residential Architect Magazine, and the Cornell Journal of Architecture. Aleksandr Mergold is a registered architect in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey; a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Graphic Arts; and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

The Urban Edge Workshop is part of a series of events of SARUP’s prestigious Urban Edge Award 2017 supported by the Wisconsin Preservation Fund and the law firm of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren to recognize excellence in urban design and the ability of individuals to create major, positive change within the public realm.

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All workshops are free and open to the public.
Additional information about the lectures and exhibitions can be found by contacting the main reception at (414) 229-4014, and by emailing any inquiries to Assistant Professor Nikole Bouchard.