Together with a select group of international students from Columbia University and UCLA, Rashid and Lynn transformed the U.S. Pavilion during the Venice Biennale 2000, into a four-week workshop and forum for architectural discourse: a laboratory. Investigating, producing and reviewing a variety of architectural schemes, the participants showed the practice and direction of a new generation of architects using new technologies at the basis of each design.
Together with a select group of international students from Columbia University and UCLA, Rashid and Lynn transformed the U.S. Pavilion during the Venice Biennale 2000, into a four-week workshop and forum for architectural discourse: a laboratory. Investigating, producing and reviewing a variety of architectural schemes, the participants showed the practice and direction of a new generation of architects using new technologies at the basis of each design.
The publication Architectural Laboratories takes you into more than 30 projects in search of the interaction between architectural research and architectural design. Combining reflections of guest critics such as Mark C. Taylor, philosopher and cultural critic, Williams College, Peter Weibel, Chairman of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe and Max Hollein, the U.S. Curator for the Biennale and essays by both Greg Lynn and Hani Rashid, this book shows an understanding of spatial configurations and building complexes that goes far beyond conventional geometrical definitions.
Hani Rashid is an architect working in New York where he runs the Asymptote architectural design practice with Lise Anne Couture and teaches at Columbia University. Greg Lynn is head of Greg Lynn FORM in Los Angeles and teaches at the School of Architecture of the UCLA and at the ETH in Zürich.
