Fall 2006 TECHNOLOGY+INNOVATION+LAND symposium
Texas Tech University College of Architecture
1800 Flint Avenue Lubbock, TX 79409
Phone: 806.742.3136 Fax: 806.742.2855

November 06    Lubbock, Texas Tech University
In architecture, the word innovation can be understood simply to mean the art of making buildings better with each effort. In addition, study and experimentation are required if innovation is to advance the cause of architecture. The process of building acknowledges that design is rooted in the activity of making as much as it is in the finished artifact. Technology in buildings cannot be addressed without the discussion of innovations that lead to moments of breakthrough. But when innovations seem so deeply tied to the contextual locale of any given project, an important question remains: How can innovations in technology be transported, mutated, re-appropriated in other scenarios whose fundamental contexts may differ vastly? How can building serve as a tool for architectural innovation? How can architectural tools inform building processes? The fundamental relationship of architect to builder and engineer may require rethinking to better fold the art and beauty of technology and land into the collaborative processes of architecture. Technology Innovation Land addresses the inconstancy of ground, land and territories in relationship to built forms that reside in, on and above it.

Part 3: Built Landscapes
    3:00 Monday
     Rm. Architecture Gallery (C06)
     November 06   Lubbock
     Texas Tech University
     College of Architecture

Brad Bell
    presentation description
    Architect, Educator
    UTA, School of Architecture

Markus Pfisterer
    presentation description
    Architect
    von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

Rick Dingus
    presentation description
    Professor of Art, Photography
    TTU, School of Art

Raimund McClain
   (moderator)
    Educator
    TTU, College of Architecture

Part 3: Built Landscapes
    10:00 Tuesday
     Rm. Architecture Gallery (C06)
     November 07   Lubbock
     Texas Tech University
     College of Architecture

Ethel Buisson and Thomas Billard
    presentation description
   Architects, Educators

Studio Ethel Buisson, SARL; Thomas Billard, Architect DESA
l'Ecole d'Architecture de Lille
Co-authors of The Presence of the Case Study Houses

Urs Peter Flueckiger
    presentation description
   Architect, Educator
    Associate Professor of Architecture
    TTU, College of Architecture

Mark Gunderson
     presentation description
    Architect, Educator
    Dallas Architecture Forum

Kristina Yu
    (moderator)
    Architect, Educator
    TTU, College of Architecture

In collaboration with the Texas Society of Architects, the Dallas Architecture Forum, University of Texas in Arlington School of Architecture and Texas Tech University College of Architecture. Visual and publication help generously given by Dirk Fowler and Carla Tedeschi, School of Art and student help from Josey Shaw, Mary Lopez, Brian Svedemann, Andrew Meckfessel, Kayla Case, Joseph Ross. Organizers are Kristina Yu and Andrew Vernooy of the College of Architecture at TTU. Revised, 10.31.06.