AIA Orlando Members,

I apologize for the short notice on this exciting presentation from internationally known architect Yasha Grobman PhD, March!

If you are available please attend this FREE event!

Performalism - Form and Performance in contemporary architecture

Lecture & Presentation from Yasha Grobman PhD, March
Wednesday, September 30th, 7:00PM
CityLab Orlando - 500 W. Livingston St.

The notion of performance in architecture in its wider sense, which includes both performance of form as an object, and the performance of the human subject, calls for its generation and optimization as a product of technical utilization, while at the same time it would aim to incorporate cognitive and perceptual aspects of form. Form, in this case, would be more flexible, adjustable and free. Its parametric origin and dynamic characteristics would elevate it to a new type of form, a “smart form”. A form based on performance as a design approach and method cannot be developed and evaluated within the frames of traditional linear modes of form-generation. The dynamic, event based nature, parametric origins and formal complexity calls for a different approach to the creation of form, one that would be able to negotiate and represent the dynamic nature of the new performance-oriented architectural form.

Speaker Information
Yasha Grobman holds a B.Arch degree from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel, A M.Arch degree from the Design Research Laboratory (DRL) program in the Architectural Association, London, and a PhD from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is currently a post doctoral fellow in Harvard Graduate School of Design. His PhD and current research concentrate on sustainable computer oriented architecture design and performance based form generation and optimization in architecture.

He is the founder of Grobman Architects (1999) and Axelrod Grobman Architects (2003) who are currently involved in the design of public, private and urban projects with an emphasis on the implementation of sustainable design methods and ideas. He is a board member in OCEAN, Trans-disciplinary international research network.

He was guest critic and lecturer in universities in Israel, USA, UK, Switzerland, China and Italy and set as an invited jury member at several international design competitions, among them are Tel Aviv Museum new building competition and Miami architectural biennale competition.

He was the co-curator of Soft[ware]Boundaries, an international exhibition on digital architecture in 2003, and Performalism - Form and Function in Digital Architecture, an international exhibition on performance in architectural design at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2008.