Elastic: Between Architecture + Urbanism | U-SoA Tecnoglass Lecture by Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem of MODU Architecture

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Phu Hoang, AIA, FAAR//
Phu Hoang is a Founding Director of the interdisciplinary architecture and design practice MODU. He has directed numerous projects, notably the Exhale art park and the Promenade mixed use center. Along with Rachely Rotem, he was awarded the Founders Rome Prize in Architecture (2017), since 1897 a prize for” the highest standards of excellence in the arts and humanities.” He has also been awarded the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York (2019) and the US-Japan Creative Artists fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (2018). Phu holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. He is an Associate Professor at the Knowlton School of the Ohio State University. Phu is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, President of its Society of Fellows, and a licensed architect in New York and Texas.

Rachely Rotem, LEED AP, FAAR//
Founding Director and studio futurist, Rachely Rotem has led MODU since 2012. Rachely has directed numerous projects, notably the Habits and Habitats nature observatory and the Cloud Seeding pavilion. Along with Phu Hoang, she was awarded the 2017 Founders Rome Prize in Architecture, since 1897 a prize for “the highest standards of excellence in the arts and humanities.” She has also been awarded the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York (2019) and the US-Japan Creative Artists fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (2018). Rachely holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree (Cum Laude) from Technion in Haifa and a Master’s in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. She teaches on the faculty at Columbia University. Rachely is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction, and a licensed architect in Israel.

1.5 Continuing education credits (CEU) offered. Sponsored by The Miami Chapter of American Institute of Architects. contact [email protected] for more info. Sponsored by Tecnoglass.

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The lecture series, Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism, posits a group of practices leveraging the potential of design to define environments stretching across scale, fabric, social contexts, territories, sensibilities, and objects. Sharing a common thread lecture guests hold a deeply rooted agenda linking people to place, building to place, material to place, and social values to place. The shared agenda will serve as a guide to establish questions and define values into each specific architectural investigation-defining new narratives for each design intervention that shape inclusive, equitable, resilient, and most of all spaces of excitement. These uncommon approaches to practice challenge the profession’s contemporary thinking on the role of architecture; stretching design thinking across the limits of building. In these innovative practices, there is a contemplative yet vigilant approach in the relationship of architecture and urbanism, an elasticity of design emerges. Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism sets out to discuss the futures of design, culture, and environment.