Sounds are processed from audio documentation of the September 9, 2013 event:

"Herzog & de Meuron: Myths and Collaborations over Time"
Watch the full lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khwQ9lf2DJQ
Description here: http://events.gsapp.org/event/herzog-de-meuron-myths-and-collaborations-over-time
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About the Analysands project:

"If you work nights and it's real quiet, I don't think there's an operator who hasn't listened in on calls," a switchboard operator says. "The night goes faster."

Taking cues and inspiration from Studs Terkel's seminal piece 'Working', a compilation of oral-histories about work informing GSAPP event programming this year, this process attempts to recapitulate and reify the alternate personas of our guest lecturers by sampling their presentations, constructing an aural architecture for the telling of their alterity through sound.

Each guest speaker was asked to give a job title other than the one they are known for, and the eponymous lecture title is presented as their framework. Some lecturers are explicit in their understanding of self-as-other, while some simply supply an alternate label to satisfy the programmatic without overtly articulating their role as such—their willingness (or lack thereof) is revealing of what design culture promotes as the role of the architect. This experiment is as much an opportunity for our guests to re-imagine themselves as it is for capital-A architecture to understand its symbiotic (and perhaps tentacular) relationship with other vocations and disciplines.

The series and these subsequent remixes offer an update to the paradigmatic characteristics Terkel's book describes about the early-70's American workforce, bringing the dialog up-to-speed with modern global productivity and communication (and in turn, ethics and value). These soundbites aim to be inwardly voyeuristic, quickly digested, to spark interest and action (watch the video and come to the events!), and to sustain oral histories through a method that is appropriate for their time and place. Stop sight-reading and start listening.

Max Lauter

Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual Practices in Architecture, '14
GSAPP, Columbia University

Analysands #1 — "Architect" Jacques Herzog

Sounds are processed from audio documentation of the October 9, 2013 event:

"Toymaker: Modules and Systems (Giancarlo Mazzanti)"
Watch the full lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnPSBvAp490
Description here: http://events.gsapp.org/event/toymaker-modules-and-systems-giancarlo-mazzanti
____________________________________________________________________

About the Analysands project:

"If you work nights and it's real quiet, I don't think there's an operator who hasn't listened in on calls," a switchboard operator says. "The night goes faster."

Taking cues and inspiration from Studs Terkel's seminal piece 'Working', a compilation of oral-histories about work informing GSAPP event programming this year, this process attempts to recapitulate and reify the alternate personas of our guest lecturers by sampling their presentations, constructing an aural architecture for the telling of their alterity through sound.

Each guest speaker was asked to give a job title other than the one they are known for, and the eponymous lecture title is presented as their framework. Some lecturers are explicit in their understanding of self-as-other, while some simply supply an alternate label to satisfy the programmatic without overtly articulating their role as such—their willingness (or lack thereof) is revealing of what design culture promotes as the role of the architect. This experiment is as much an opportunity for our guests to re-imagine themselves as it is for capital-A architecture to understand its symbiotic (and perhaps tentacular) relationship with other vocations and disciplines.

The series and these subsequent remixes offer an update to the paradigmatic characteristics Terkel's book describes about the early-70's American workforce, bringing the dialog up-to-speed with modern global productivity and communication (and in turn, ethics and value). These soundbites aim to be inwardly voyeuristic, quickly digested, to spark interest and action (watch the video and come to the events!), and to sustain oral histories through a method that is appropriate for their time and place. Stop sight-reading and start listening.

Max Lauter

Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual Practices in Architecture, '14
GSAPP, Columbia University

Analysands #2 — "Toymaker" Giancarlo Mazzanti

Sounds are processed from audio documentation of the January 31, 2014 event:

"Edit or Be Damned (Thomas Weaver)"
Watch the full lecture online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1W-JqA8Z3o
Description here: http://events.gsapp.org/event/edit-or-be-damned-thomas-weaver
____________________________________________________________________

About the Analysands project:

"If you work nights and it's real quiet, I don't think there's an operator who hasn't listened in on calls," a switchboard operator says. "The night goes faster."

Taking cues and inspiration from Studs Terkel's seminal piece 'Working', a compilation of oral-histories about work informing GSAPP event programming this year, this process attempts to recapitulate and reify the alternate personas of our guest lecturers by sampling their presentations, constructing an aural architecture for the telling of their alterity through sound.

Each guest speaker was asked to give a job title other than the one they are known for, and the eponymous lecture title is presented as their framework. Some lecturers are explicit in their understanding of self-as-other, while some simply supply an alternate label to satisfy the programmatic without overtly articulating their role as such—their willingness (or lack thereof) is revealing of what design culture promotes as the role of the architect. This experiment is as much an opportunity for our guests to re-imagine themselves as it is for capital-A architecture to understand its symbiotic (and perhaps tentacular) relationship with other vocations and disciplines.

The series and these subsequent remixes offer an update to the paradigmatic characteristics Terkel's book describes about the early-70's American workforce, bringing the dialog up-to-speed with modern global productivity and communication (and in turn, ethics and value). These soundbites aim to be inwardly voyeuristic, quickly digested, to spark interest and action (watch the video and come to the events!), and to sustain oral histories through a method that is appropriate for their time and place. Stop sight-reading and start listening.

Max Lauter

Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual Practices in Architecture, '14
GSAPP, Columbia University

Analysands #3 — "Psychiatrist" Thomas Weaver

"If you work nights and it's real quiet, I don't think there's an operator who hasn't listened in on calls," a switchboard operator says. "The night goes faster."

Taking cues and inspiration from Studs Terkel's seminal piece 'Working', a compilation of oral-histories about work informing GSAPP event programming this year, this process attempts to recapitulate and reify the alternate personas of our guest lecturers by sampling their presentations, constructing an aural architecture for the telling of their alterity through sound.

Each guest speaker was asked to give a job title other than the one they are known for, and the eponymous lecture title is presented as their framework. Some lecturers are explicit in their understanding of self-as-other, while some simply supply an alternate label to satisfy the programmatic without overtly articulating their role as such—their willingness (or lack thereof) is revealing of what design culture promotes as the role of the architect. This experiment is as much an opportunity for our guests to re-imagine themselves as it is for capital-A architecture to understand its symbiotic (and perhaps tentacular) relationship with other vocations and disciplines.

The series and these subsequent remixes offer an update to the paradigmatic characteristics Terkel's book describes about the early-70's American workforce, bringing the dialog up-to-speed with modern global productivity and communication (and in turn, ethics and value). These soundbites aim to be inwardly voyeuristic, quickly digested, to spark interest and action (watch the video and come to the events!), and to sustain oral histories through a method that is appropriate for their time and place. Stop sight-reading and start listening.

Max Lauter

Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual Practices in Architecture, '14
GSAPP, Columbia University

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