Architecture and the floating world

Speaker: Sunil Bald

Venue: Lecture Hall, Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology (ZJUMAA), Zijingang Campus

Abstract:

Architecture privileges “grounded-ness”— in how it acknowledges gravity and situates itself in ‘place.’ Central to this grounded-ness is a clear connection to context, whether in the working process of the architect or as an ambition to respond to those who inhabit it. However, studioSUMO has explored floating, and consequently “ungrounded-ness,” in both design and practice. In this lecture, Sunil Bald, co-founding partner of studioSUMO, will discuss designing from a distance, whether in time or space, and how this has led the embrace of floating as a tectonic andmetaphysical condition for both the architectural object and architecturapractice.