I oA / Institut für ArchitekturLuis Callejas is an architect,
founder of LCLA office and professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Callejas’
projects and research bridge architecture and landscape architecture. Previous appointments include Harvard Graduate School
of Design (2012-2016) the Louis Kahn visiting chair at Yale (2020) and Patrick Geddes fellow at the University of Edinburgh
(2019)
In 2013 Callejas won the Architecture league of New
York award for best young architects. The office has been nominated to the Mies van der Rohe award for European Architecture
and the Mies Crown Hall award for architecture in the Americas. In 2016 Luis Callejas was on the three finalists in the Rolex
mentor and protege program curated by David Chipperfield.
Completed works include the open
air competition swimming facilities in Medellin for the IX South American games, and the renovation of the main stadium in
Bogota, Colombia.
LCLA office’s works have been exhibited in most major biennales over the
past years, including the Venice biennale, the Lisbon triennial, the Oslo triennial and the Seoul triennial among others.
Following the lecture we invite you to a small reception.
Architecting Matter(s)
From c. 1200 as "a subject of a literary work, content of what
is written, main theme;" sense of „arrative, tale, story" is from c. 1300. Meaning "physical substance generally" is from
mid-14c.; that of "substance of which some specific object is or may be composed" is attested from late 14c. Meaning "piece
of business, affair, activity, situation; subject of debate or controversy, question under discussion" is from late 14c. In
law, "something which is to be tried or proved," 1530s.
"events, affairs of a particular sort," 1560s, from plural of matter (n.).
"to be of importance or consequence," 1580s
Architecture structures
matter. In parallel, architecture engages with scales of social and cultural matters, and today our living environments are
increasingly augmented by digital processes, platforms, and social media. Ultimately matter and matters reveal the health
of our planet (1), observable by current technologies that allow for an unprecedented spectrum of data gathered at nano or
planetary scales. Hence, our notion of matter(s) encompasses physical scales and processes beyond the visible, including the
digital realm's immaterial building blocks and operations.
Interested
in cultural complexities and architecture's operations within it, the Sliver Lecture Series 2022/23, titled Architecting Matter(s),
presents material entanglements intertwined with networks of living things. As (architectural) design activities or investigations,
these engage with matter and matters simultaneously and beyond the borders of disciplinary thinking. From actionable idealism
of global operations to landscaping across vast territories, through the digital atoms of worldbuilding and back to physical
translations foregrounding spatial affairs, the series touches on what is the matter of/with ideas and realities we produce.
(1) Seetal Solanki: Why Materials Matter: Responsible Design for a Better World
March
23, 2023: Nathan Su & Bethany Edgoose (Inferstudio)
April 20, 2023:
Rodia Valladares (Studio Gang)
May 25, 2023: Jeanette Kuo
(Karamuk Kuo Architects)
