NOX

Lars Spuybroek
Lecture
9/8/11
7:00 PM Lawrence Arts Center

"NOX is one of these rare offices that produces architecture as well as art. We don't do them separately; we do both in a working day. And we mix them up too. We feel architecture is in desperate need of beauty, of feelings and moods. If you don't agree, look around you. Architecture more than ever has entered a state of cold minimalism, blind traditionalism and mindless materialism. John Ruskin, the last one to mix up art with architecture, said: 'We are creatures that when seeing can't help feeling.' This means whatever we see or do, whatever objects we create, we should always feel strongly about them."

HtwoOexpo Interactive Museum, 1994-1997

wetGRID Exhibition Design, 1999-2000

D-Tower Interactive Public Artwork, 1999-2004

"NOX has been at the forefront of the development of digital design in architecture since its beginnings in the early 1990s. Their work has been exhibited in many international museums like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria & Albert in London, and the MOMA New York, and was part of several editions of the Venice Biennale. In 1997, they built the first fully interactive building with digitally generated geometry, the so-called water pavilion, or HtwoOexpo, in the Netherlands. Since then, many projects and works have attracted international acclaim, such as the WTC design, the Maison Folie in Lille, and art works such as the D-tower and Son-O-House. NOX is run by Lars Spuybroek who is a full Professor and the Ventulett Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech in Atlanta."

HtwoOexpo Interactive Museum, 1994-1997

There is a display of Spuybroek's work in the Hatch, including over a decade of writings in architectural publications, as well as Spuybroek's book, NOX: Machining Architecture.

Spuybroek's lecture is presented by the Thomas Galloway Lecture Series.