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SUMMARY:Platforms and Displacement as Design Strategy - John Sergeant Form
 er Lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Emeritus Fellow of Robin
 son College\, University of Cambridge
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DTEND:20110223T141500Z
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CONTACT:Juls Jun Chen
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* All buildings modify their sites\, some radically.
  There will be other sites from which material came and to which it goes. 
 Carbon and other costs now reward a strategy of incorporating all excavati
 on into the design. The talk will explore the history of this practice\, f
 rom work by Rem Koolhaas to ancient Indian temples\, particularly tracing 
 the connection between Rafael Moneo's Kursaal at San Sebastian\, Jorn Utzo
 n's Sydney Opera House and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West.\n\n*Biograp
 hy:* John Sergeant is an Architect\, former Lecturer in the Dept. of Archi
 tecture and Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College. He was a Visiting Profess
 or at CEPT University\, Ahmedabad\, India in 2009-10 and led a Symposium o
 n Wright at the University of Tokyo in December 2009. His research is best
  known for Frank Lloyd\nWright's Usonian Houses and his local practice for
  recycling Adden-Brooke's Outpatients' Department into Brown's Restaurant.
  His orientation has always been toward organic\, or sustainable\, archite
 cture. He is currently working on a book on recent Responsive Architecture
 .
LOCATION:First-floor Classroom\, Department of Architecture\, 1-5 Scroope 
 Terrace\, Cambridge\, CB2 1PX\, www.arct.cam.ac.uk.
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