NOW CONFERENCE – SEASON 1
1 JULY 2011 – 2 JULY 2011
The conference, previously known as DATUM:KL, remains the principal anchor event for the Festival, but shall from this year onwards be re-conceptualised as the NOW CONFERENCE. NOW implies an immediacy, a moment in the present to define new positions and potentials, an architectural status update! At a time when architecture seeks new directions and new beginnings, the debut conference will seek to examine and describe key trajectories of thinking and practice, and to underline the essential transformative aspects of architecture as a critical instrumentality to engage a continually changing world.
NOW CONFERENCE / SEASON 1 will feature a series of lectures by a selection of both established and emergent architects and designers with divergent range of approaches and interests from the region and internationally. In addition to introducing a new set of exceptional talent to the Datum community, this year we welcome back some of our original speakers who over the years has also risen in stature and profile alongside Datum. The new conference will also have a refreshed and updated format but will leave intact the things that have worked well.
SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
YB SENATOR DATO SRI’ IDRIS JALA PUTRAJAYA
ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG CARACAS
PITUPONG CHAOWAKUL BANGKOK
FLORIAN IDENBURG & JING LIU NEW YORK/BEIJING
ZHANG LI BEIJING
LAURENCE LOH PENANG
JÜRGEN MAYER BERLIN
HIROSHI NAKAMURA TOKYO
OLE SCHEEREN HONG KONG/BEIJING
MARC SIMMONS NEW YORK
CAMERON SINCLAIR LONDON
ALAN TAY & SEETOH KUM LOON SINGAPORE
MARC SIMMONS NEW YORK
FRONT INC. www.frontinc.com
LECTURE TITLE: INTEGRATED PRACTICE
Marc is a founding partner of Front Inc, an integrated practice established in 2002 with 45 staff located in four offices (New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Hong Kong) and is a faculty member at the Princeton University School of Architecture. He holds both Bachelor of Environmental Studies and professional Bachelor of Architecture degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Marc leads a multi-discplinary design team performing design and consulting work at all scales of projects internationally.
Prior to Front, Marc worked with Foster and Partners, KPMB Architects, Shin Takamatsu Architect as well as with structural engineering firm Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners and Meinhardt Façade Technology.
Marc also lectures widely on the subject of architecture, building information management, envelope design and integrated practice generally. In addition to his teaching role at Princeton University, he has given presentations at the Harvard GSD, the Yale University Labor in Architecture Symposium; Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA Los Angeles, Georgia Tech Atlanta, Rice University, the University of Houston, Texas, SIUC Carbondale, National University of Singapore Ong Siew May Lecture, Cornell University, Georgia Tech, Syracuse University, TU Delft, the 2003 Fabrication Conference at the University of Waterloo, the 2006 MMFX Conference at Ball State University, the 2007 Architectural Record Innovation Conference, Green Build Conference 2008, and at various AIA events.
