Time and Place
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Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 170
“Still Processing ” presentation Michael Jefferson
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Innovation in Design Fellow
JE-LE, Principal
This lecture is Sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Bio
Michael Jefferson is the 2019-2020 Innovation in Design Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning and a co-founder of Jefferson Lettieri Design Office (JE-LE). Jefferson previously held teaching appointments at The Cooper Union, City College of New York, University of Michigan, and Cornell University and has received a residency fellowship at The MacDowell Colony. Jefferson’s writing has been published in Project, The Plan Journal, Office US:Manual, and elsewhere. JE-LE was a winner of the 2018 Sukkah x Detroit Competition and has had work exhibited in Detroit, New York, and Boston. Jefferson received his B.A. in Political Science from Indiana University and M.Arch from Cornell University.
Lecture Summary
Still Processing retrieves J.N.L. Durand’s Precis Des Lecons D’Architecture and examines it through the prism of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In pairing the two, the project tests the endurance of disciplinary convention through the application of procedures and techniques that agitate it. The resulting sympathies and frictions between formats chart how conventions within the field of architecture are displaced by contemporary design methods and yield new territories for investigation.
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