American architect James Timberlake will be in Melbourne later this month to speak about ways to confront current productivity and environmental problems that undermine the building industry.
Timberlake is a partner at KieranTimberlake, an American architecture firm, which the University of Melbourne says is internationally known for its buildings that are “holistically integrated to site, program and people”.
Cellophane House by KieranTimberlake
The free lecture will coincide with an exhibition of selected projects by KieranTimberlake will be on display in the Wunderlich Gallery, Architecture Building, 23-31 August, 2011.
American architecture firm KieranTimberlake says in its marketing that it is “dedicated to interrogating and advancing building design practices through material, system, process, and environment driven questions.
Over the course of multiple projects, they have employed a range of approaches to off-site fabrication, from program-volume subdivision, to the articulation of entirely new systems of assembly.
James Timberlake will discuss the construction methodologies the firm has devised to confront current productivity and environmental problems that undermine the building industry.
An investigation of building information modeling (BIM), the supply chain and the creation of integrated component assemblies are posed as part of the solution, as well as trans-industry collaboration, cultivation of a deep environmental ethic, and assuming responsibility for the total lifecycle of a building.
Date: Tuesday 23 August 2011, 7-8pm
Venue: The University of Melbourne
For further information and to book go to: www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/deans-lectures/timberlake/index.html
