Minimaforms: Stephen Spyropoulos & Theodore Spyropoulos – All is Architecture

Lecture date: 2015-03-18

Pushing the boundaries of art, architecture and design the work of Minimaforms explores projects that enables human curiosity and play, forging intimate exchanges that are emotive and evolving over time. The brothers will discuss their pursuit for generative design that enables engaged, durational, and spatial interrelationships between people, machine and their environments. They will discuss their approach that moves beyond the fixed and finite towards the dynamic and evolving defying convention for classification. Interfaces, atmospheres, robotics, vehicles, landscapes, buildings and master plans are part of their experiments that embrace an active dialogue with the public moving towards a model of the everyday that is participatory.

Minimaforms was founded in 2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos. Their work is in the permanent collections of the FRAC Centre (France), the Signum Foundation (Poland) and the Archigram Archive (UK) and recent exhibitions have included Barbican Centre, MOMA, DIA, ICA, and FRAC Centre. Recent projects include two thematic pier landmarks and the illumination concept for a Renzo Piano’s master planned 760 acre National Park in Athens, a large scale land art work in Norway, a vehicle in collaboration with artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, a behavior based robotic installation for the FRAC Centre and immersive ephemeral environment for the city of Detroit.

Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s world renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London. He has been a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies working with the Interrogative Design Group and co-founded the New Media and Information Research initiative at the Architectural Association. He has taught in the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania and the Royal College of Art, Innovation Design Engineering Department. In 2013 the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture awarded him The ACADIA award of excellence for his educational work directing the AADRL.Stephen Spyropoulos is an artist and interactive designer. He is the head of user experience and design for Gilt Groupe and has also been the design director for Heavy, and a faculty member at Rutgers School of Art teaching interactive design. He has directed projects for clients such as Samsung Interactive, Matador Records, The Beggars Group, and XL Records. Stephen was named Creative Review’s One to Watch and has exhibited and lectured about his work internationally. Stephen received an MA in Communication and Interaction Design at Central St. Martins School of Art and Design in London and his BFA with honors from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University..

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