Melting into Air:

Architecture is the domain of interactions: the disciplinary exchange of knowledge and expertise, the technical intervention of tools and techniques of practice, and even the physical interplay of objects, bodies, and particles in space. Beyond a reliance on form and object-making practices, Iman Ansari’s work considers architecture as a framework for those epistemological, socio-technical, and material interactions. In this lecture, Ansari will provide an overview of his research, teaching and practice, and how his work developed through navigating various disciplinary issues, modes of practice, and methods of research and scholarship.

SPEAKER

Iman Ansari is an architectural historian, designer, and educator. He is a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS and an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. His practice focuses on experimental approaches towards architecture and urbanism through an exploration of tools, methods, and techniques of production. His office has worked as a consultant for NASA JPL and is currently a design partner of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. His work has been published widely and exhibited at international venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the MoMA PS1, the Hammer Museum, and the A+D Museum.

Ansari’s research examines the intertwined relationship between architecture and medicine in the production of scientific knowledge and professional expertise in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He has contributed to multiple books and edited volumes on architectural history and theory, landscape architecture and urbanism. His writings have appeared in Architectural Review, Architectural Theory Review, Architect’s Newspaper, Cabinet, Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians, Log, Metropolis, Room One Thousand and Places Journal, among others.

Prior to joining OSU Knowlton School of Architecture, Ansari taught at various institutions including USC School of Architecture, UNLV School of Architecture, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, and CCNY Spitzer School of Architecture. Ansari holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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