American architect Adam Kalkin will speak in Melbourne at the end of this month on architecture as the silent homologous gravitational mass that absorbs every meaningful production.
Kalkin designed the pirate radio tower which was erected at Melbourne University last week.
The Mis-design featured artist and architect and Macgeorge fellow, will deliver a public lecture which explores his practice.
The buildings that he makes embody the paradoxes and ambiguities that are more often the domain of the art object than of the domestic environment.
By using prefabricated materials, shipping containers, jetways, urban detritus, dirt and plastics, he introduces an emotional ambiguity into an area of architecture that has long conformed to a limited set of effects.
His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Venice Biennale, Art Basel/Miami and Deitch Projects. He lives in Paris, New York and New Jersey.
Tuesday 30 August, 6.30 - 7.30pm
The University of Melbourne, Parkville.
Bookings are essential. Visit the website for exhibition program and off site projects www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au
