Architectural TheoristsBenjamin Bratton

Extreme IDEAS: Runway (Full Event Video) – UCLA A.UD

Noted Architects, designers, and cultural leaders share their thoughts on the future of design through a series of short presentations during "L.A. Architecture...

Benjamin Bratton: Master class 3 (December 3, 2015)

Benjamin Bratton characterizes the third and final presentation for the Architecture, Computation and Globalization seminar as an exploration of how the emergent planetary-scale computational...

#SCIArc: Architecture in the Age of Digital Media (September 22, 2016)

Bruno Juricic moderates a symposium on the speculative directions for architecture in relation to contemporary digital culture with Lucy Redoglia, Devin Gharakhanian, Birgit Lohmann,...

Machines of Loving Grace: A Symposium on AI, Architecture and Virtual Worlds (session 3)

MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE: A SYMPOSIUM ON AI, ARCHITECTURE AND VIRTUAL WORLDS Session 3 Popularly labeled as the 4th Industrial Revolution, the proliferation of artificial intelligence, robotics,...

Benjamin Bratton & Jeffrey Kipnis (November 15, 2016)

Benjamin Bratton and Jeff Kipnis discuss Bratton’s ideas of terrorism and counter-terrorism as developed in his essay, “For a staging of Jean Genet’s The...

Benjamin Bratton: Presentation of The Stack (April 13, 2016)

Benjamin Bratton cites dozens of headlines from the news that touch on issues he has addressed in his new book, The Stack: on software...

Benjamin Bratton: Spring 2016 Master Class 2 (February 25, 2016)

Benjamin Bratton discusses speculative design as an alternative to mainstream design approaches, proposing setting systems up "so that the outcomes solve themselves." Bratton challenges...

Benjamin Bratton: Spring 2016 Master Class 1 (January 21, 2016)

Benjamin H. Bratton argues that accidental megastructures could potentially be related to Utopian concepts. He concludes the lecture with excerpts from his forthcoming book,...

Jeffrey Kipnis & Benjamin Bratton: On Track (October 24, 2017)

Benjamin Bratton describes his current seminar at SCI-Arc as an exploration of the issues involved inartificial intelligence (AI) at urban scale. They investigate non-anthropocentric...