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MAS Context Spring Talks 2015

Michael Kubo: Collective–LOK

April 14, 2015 at 6:00PM

Lecture by architect Michael Kubo organized in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The lecture took place at The LeRoy Neiman Center.

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Collective–LOK: The First Three Projects

His talk served to take stock of the concepts and referents at play in Collective–LOK’s first three collaborations: the new street-level headquarters of Van Alen Institute in New York; an entry as finalists for the Young Architects Proposal at MoMA PS1 in 2014; and a recent proposal for a new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki.

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Mirror Mirror, MoMA PS1 YAP 2014 Runner-Up. © Collective–LOK.

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Van Alen Institute, New York. © Collective–LOK.

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Michael Kubo

Michael Kubo is Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston. He was previously the Wyeth Fellow at the Center For Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art and Associate Curator for the US Pavilion at the 2014 International Architecture Biennale in Venice. He is coauthor of numerous books on twentieth-century architecture and urbanism including Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston (2015) and OfficeUS Atlas (2015), and is currently preparing a book on The Architects Collaborative and the authorship of the architectural corporation after 1945.