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2023 Spring Lecture Series: David M. Foxe

Materials as Collaborators: Teams, Themes, and Trees


Date

January 17, 2023

Time

6:00 p.m.

Location

Cascieri Hall

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Cost

FREE

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Architects earned AIA CEU credit by attending this lecture.

David M. Foxe, Architect, Educator, Author, and Composer.
David M. Foxe, Architect, Educator, Author, and Composer.

Default design and construction processes often assume a sequence where massing precedes form, form precedes material, specified materials “belong” to one discipline or another, and the eventual choices of materials become products subject to ongoing alternatives. Given that the non-architectural public often seeks resonance and meaning in the experience of materials and craft, why not pursue such considerations simultaneously rather than sequentially? What if one more fully considered how intrinsically chosen materials and systems can embody more purposes and values, recognizing the benefits and challenges thereof? How would this approach to materials as collaborators illuminate the human involvement at each step, and expand the possibilities for tectonic expression?

Thank you to those who joined us in person in Cascieri Hall or on Zoom.

Architects earned AIA CEU credit by attending this lecture.

Date

January 17, 2023

Time

6:00 p.m.

Location

Cascieri Hall

For More Info

communications@the-bac.edu

Cost

FREE

Categories

Events   Lecture  

Watch the Lecture Video Now

Architects earned AIA CEU credit by attending this lecture.

Watch the Lecture Now

About David M. Foxe

David M. Foxe is trained in architecture, research, and music. As a registered architect, he has over fifteen years of experience in all phases of architectural design and digital documentation for new construction and transformative renovation projects around the United States and abroad. Most recently as an Associate at Epstein Joslin Architects, he has led the design and construction of performing arts and cultural facilities in hybrid mass timber, steel, and concrete. For his past work at Safdie Architects, he was an awardee of the President’s Design Award for Jewel at Changi Airport in Singapore.

David has published, taught, and lectured widely in the US, UK, and Europe on design methods and education topics and served as the editorial director and coauthor of the structural design textbook Form and Forces (Wiley, 2009). He served for five years as the president of the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. His teaching at the BAC has included courses in research methods, building systems, and the M. Arch, online, comprehensive design studios for which one of his students’ designs was recognized in the national ACSA/AISC steel design competition.

He holds undergraduate degrees in architecture and music composition from MIT, an M. Arch from MIT, and a research degree (M. Phil.) from Clare College, Cambridge University as a UK Marshall Scholar. He attended the architecture and music programs at Fontainebleau near Paris, and his orchestral and chamber music compositions have been written for (and performed in) settings ranging from underground storage vaults to iconic landmarks of modern architecture.

Glulam timber columns on concrete, Massachusetts, 2020. Photograph by David M Foxe.
Glulam timber columns on concrete, Massachusetts, 2020. Photograph by David M Foxe.
Glulam timber framing over helical piles and elevated concrete slab, Massachusetts, 2022. Photograph by David M Foxe.
Glulam timber framing over helical piles and elevated concrete slab, Massachusetts, 2022. Photograph by David M Foxe.
Stainless steel and diffusive glass over glulam timber structure, Massachusetts, 2021. Photograph by David M Foxe.
Stainless steel and diffusive glass over glulam timber structure, Massachusetts, 2021. Photograph by David M Foxe.

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