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  Conversation: Reinier de Graaf discusses his new book 'architect, verb' with Patrik Schumacher
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  Design for the 21st Century: The Metaverse is Happening - Hangzhou
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  AI will not replace architects - BlessedArch
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  The Metaverse is Happening - Lecture for Ajman University
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  Tongji lecture 1: A New Framework for Architecture, Digital Futures World
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  Tongji lecture 2: Exclusive Competency and Universal Scope of Architecture
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  Tongji lecture 3: Architectural Autopoiesis within Functionally Differentiated Society, Digital Futures World
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  Tongji lecture 4: Architectural Style(s), Digital Futures World
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  Tongji lecture 5: Rationality of Aesthetic Values, Digital Futures World
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  Tongji lecture 6: The Societal Function of Architecture, Digital Futures World
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Zaha's Incredible Moves - Zaha Hadid's Expansion of Architecture's Repertoire
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Metaverse Urbanism - for Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
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  The Politically Smart City – for Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
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Niklas Luhmann as Philosopher – Architecture and Philosophy, Digital Futures
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  Conversation with Architecture for the Soul
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Notes on Cyberspace, Qatar University
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  2021 Design Drivers for the Metaverse – ArchAgenda Keynote
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The Designed Environment as Mind Expansion, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA)
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Liberland Metaverse – CyberUrban Incubators in the Blockchain Metaverse
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Cyberspace & the Autopoieis of Architecture – University of Virginia
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Escape from the Malthusian Trap
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  The Politically/Economically/Architecturally Smart City - Moscow Urban Forum 2021
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Architecture and Philosophy -  Digital Futures Lecture
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The Failure of Urban Planning and the Future of Cities
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Formal Research and the Avant-garde, FAU lecture Series on The Role of Technology in Architecture, Miami
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Tectonism, 9th International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design
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Cyberspace & Semiology, Madrid 2020
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The Fusion of Urban and Virtual Spaces: The Cyber-Urban Incubator, 2020
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Architecture for the New China, for DOMO, Brazil & Architecture Hunter, 2020
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Soho Leeza Tower In Depth –  Weitzman School of Design, 2020
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Reimagining The Global City – The Post Crisis City, CTBUH Singapore, 2020
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  ZHA in the Arab World, Archnode, 2020
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Relationship between Art and Architecture, Melbourne School of Design, 2020
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Conversation at Bezalel Academy on urban politics, 2020
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Expanding Architecture’s Core Competency, 2020
DC I/O Design Computation Conference
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Cyberspace and the Idea of Virtual Architecture, 2020
Keynote at the online conference: Connecting Life Spaces, hosted by The Times of India
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Free Private Cities Architecture Symposium, ArchAgenda for Liberland, 2020
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Spontaneous AI Environments, DigitalFUTURES: world talks, 2020
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Interaction with Patrik Schumacher, Sasi Creative School Of Architecture, India 2020
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  Politics after the Libertarian Revolution, LibertyCon Madrid 2020
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Creative Environments, lecture and debate at ‘Forum Vertigo: Neurones, Les Intelligences Simulees’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, February 2020
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  Keynote at FOAID Architecture Festival
Mumbai, 2019

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Debate on Architectural Education @ Dezeen Day 2019
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Visionary Claude Parent – Continuous Weave of Surfaces
MAXXI Museum of Art and Architecture for the 21st Century, Rom
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  Architectural Communication as Human Universal, Patrik Schumacher, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2019
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Architecture's Contribution to the Progress of Freedom
Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City, Feb 2019
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Theses on Architectural Theory, Tongji University, Shanghai 2018
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The Crisis of Architectural Education, Rome, June 2019
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On the Goal and Rationality of Parametricism’s Hegemony - Mexico City, 20 Oct 2018
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  Patrik Schumacher on 'Tectonism' and the work of ZHCODE - 10 Sept 2018
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  CAA ANNUAL LECTURE 2018 - Design as Second Nature
Cyprus Architects Association, Nicosia 27 June 2018
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  Architects, Not Architecture: Patrik Schumacher
Hamburg 2018
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Designing the Eloquent City
Tsinghua University, Beijing May 2018
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Designing The Eloquent City
Talk at SUPER CITY, Venice Biennale, May 2018

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Urban Co-living – UIA-HYP Cup 2018 Student Competition
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  Capital Architecture - On Marx, Materialism, Capitalism, Urbanism
June 16, 2018
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Innovative Governance - Podcast
The sixth guest for the Innovative Governance Podcast is Patrik Schumacher. Patrik is the Principal at Zaha Hadid Architects. Originally a socialist, the financial crisis made him rethink his views, turning him into a libertarian. He has stirred up controversy in architectural circles for his pro-market views, and recently began advocating for free private cities.
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The Life of a Dissident Urbanist with Patrik Schumacher and Wendell Cox
by Aaron M. Renn on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
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Architecture’s Contribution to Societal Progress
National Arts Club, NYC, January 2018
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Startup Cities Conversation
Rise, 15 Jan 2018, NYC
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Architecture in the Age of Digital Production- Tectonism in the Context of Parametric Semiology, PART 1
Ecole nationale superieure d’architecture, Paris-Malaquais, Nov 2017
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Architecture in the Age of Digital Production- Tectonism in the Context of Parametric Semiology, PART 2
Ecole nationale superieure d’architecture, Paris-Malaquais, Nov 2017
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The City of Tomorrow
Guangzhou International Design Forum, Nov 2017

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Architecture in the Age of Digital Production
Lecture at Experimental Architecture Biennial 2017, Prague, 27 Oct 2017
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Tectonism
Jump the Gap Talk, Barcelona, 17 Oct 2017
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  Walkable London
Future Cities Forum 6, "Healthy Cities"
The Crystal Building, London, 9 Oct 2017
 

Façade Design as Communication – The Instrumentality of Appearances
Lecture at World of Facades Conference, London, 4 Oct 2017
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Patrik Schumacher probes Reinier de Graaf about his ‘Four Walls and a Roof’
The Building Centre, London, 29 Sept 2017
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  Sessions On Territory—Urbanism Beyond Neoliberalism Power
A lecture series by Prof. M. Angélil and Prof. M. Topalović
Opening Event "The Property Drama" at ONA Focushalle, 25 Sept 2017, ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture

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  The Property and Freedom Society, 12th Annual Conference
Karia Princess Hotel, Bodrum, 14-19 Sept 2017
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The Legacy of Zaha Hadid - Retrospective and Prospective
UIA 2017, Seoul World Architects Congress, 7 September 2017
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  The Story of ZHA - Past, Present & Future
Taipei, 9 July 2017
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TECTONISM – Part1  lecture at Digital Future Conference, Shanghai, 2 July 2017
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TECTONISM – Part2  lecture at Digital Future Conference, Shanghai, 2 July 2017
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TECTONISM – Part3  lecture at Digital Future Conference, Shanghai, 2 July 2017
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TECTONISM - Part4  lecture at Digital Future Conference, 2 July 2017
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Can There Be A Market-based Urban Order?
Beijing Arts Centre, 20 June 2017
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Zaha Hadid’s “Pedagogy” – The “School” as Laboratory
Keynote lecture at the Symposium Zaha Hadid: Pedagogy as Practice, Princeton University, 31st March 2017
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High Intensity Urban Order
Future Cities Forum, London, 6 Mar 2017
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Parametricism 2.0 – From Technical to Social Functionality
Architect A.P. Kavinde Memorial Lecture, 25 Feb 2017
BNCA – Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture for Women, Pune
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"Zaha Hadid: her life and legacy" at Battle of Ideas, Barbican Centre, Feb 4 2017
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The Story of Zaha Hadid and Zaha Hadid Architects
Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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Housing Crisis, World Architecture Festival, Berlin Nov. 2016
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Composition and Tectonics as Communication: Making Engineering Logics Speak
Politecnico Milano, MI/ARCH 15 Oct 2016
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The Greg Lynn Show, episode 11: Patrik Schumacher - Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Rethinking Architecture’s Agenda for the 21st Century - PART 1
Launch of AD Parametricism 2.0, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 29 Apr 2016
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  Rethinking Architecture’s Agenda for the 21st Century - PART 2
Launch of AD Parametricism 2.0, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 29 Apr 2016
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  Duel + Duet: Patrik Schumacher + Tom Wiscombe
SCI-Arch 13 Apr 2016
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An Afternoon with Patrik Schumacher
University of Texas at Austin - School of Architecture
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‘The Architect is Dead’
AAGORA conversation on the consequences of AI entering architecture, AA London, February 2016
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Spatial Communication – Architect’s Core Competency, Kent University, Nov 2015
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The Age of Mega Concentration and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order
Lecture (‘Cloud Talk’) at IIT, Illinois Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Chicago, October 2015
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Commenting on the 1st Chicago Architecture Biennale
Interview: Patrik Schumacher speaks to Daniela Ghertovici (ArchAgenda), occasion: Chicago ArchAgenda Debate
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Parametricism 2.0 – The Imperative of Convergence, contribution to ArchAgenda Debates: Setting the Agenda for 21st Century Architecture and Design, 1st Chicago Architecture Biennale, Chicago 2015
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Architecture, Freedom and Order (AUDIO ONLY)
lecture at the Royal Academy, London, as part of the Royal Academy’s Architecture and Freedom season, Sept 2015
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Spatial Communication
Lecture at UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture, October 2015
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The Rationality of Parametricism
Lecture at UMSoA – University of Miami School of Architecture, Fall 2015
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  Q&A The Rationality of Parametricism (with Rodolphe El-khoury)
at UMSoA – University of Miami School of Architecture, Fall 2015
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  Free Market Urban Order – Smart Cities Conference – London Innovation Summit 2014
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The Instrumentality of Appearances, Bio-cities Lecture Series
UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture, Advanced Urban Design, London 2014
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  In Defence of Capitalism
Lecture at the European Graduate School, Sas Fee, Switzerland, Summer 2014
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The Twilight of Parametricsim? – Parametricism in Crisis
Contribution to ‘Parametrics’, Computational Architecture Series, SOA Princeton University
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Discussion: Jeffrey Kipnis and Patrik Schumacher, Institute of Urban Design, Innsbruck University
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Free Market Urbanism – Urbanism Beyond Planning
Contribution to AA symposium Master-planning the Adaptive City, London 2013
Lecture and debate
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The Political Pertinence of Parametricism - Free Market Urban Order
Contribution to the symposium “The Politics of Parametricism – Digital Technology and the Future(s) of Sociality”
REDCAT – California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles, November 2013
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Parametricism: Epochal Style for the 21st Century
Lecture organized by Magic Made, Bangkok, Thailand, August 2013
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  Communication – Architecture’s Core Competency, Staedelschule, Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Frankfurt a.M., June 2013
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Parametric Semiology, Conferenze di architettura contemporanea, lecture at Politecnico di Milano, November 2012
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Parametric Order, School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, 2012
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  SCI ARC, Parametric Semiology, Los Angeles - Oct 2012
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  RCA, Royal College of Arts, London 2012 ‘Theory of Styles’
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  RCA, Royal College of Arts, London 2012 ‘Debate on Style’
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  GSDGSD, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 2012
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Discussion - Jeffrey Kipnis and Patrik Schumacher
Institute of Urban Design | Prof. Peter Trummer
University of Innsbruck, May 15 2012

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Parametric Semiology
STRELKA Architecture School, Moscow, July 2012
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  Distance and Cities: where do we stand?
LSE, London School of Economics, London 2011
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The Societal Function of Architecture
Sliver Lecture Series, University of Applied Arts, Vienna 2011
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  PROTO/E/CO/LOGICS, Rovinji 2011
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  Belgrade Design Week 2011
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  AA Symposium 2011
Debating Fundamentals: Probing the Autopoiesis of Architecture
10 sessions, Participants: Patrik Schumacher, Jeff Kipnis, Charles Jencks, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf D Prix, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Mark Cousins, Brett Steele, Zaha Hadid, Theo Spyropoulos, Thomas Vietzke
 

‘Parametricism and the Autopoiesis of Architecture’ at SCI-Arch, Part 1.
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‘Parametricism and the Autopoiesis of Architecture’ at SCI-Arch, Part 2.
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Jeff Kipnis, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Theo Spyropoulos, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Thomas Vietzke, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Eric Owen Moss, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Wolf Prix, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Mark Cousins, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Alejandro Zaera Polo, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Charles Jencks, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Brett Steele, AA 2010
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  Debating Fundamentals with with Zaha Hadid, AA 2010
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  The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Architectural Association, London 2010, Part 1
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  The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Architectural Association, London 2010, Part 2
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  GSAPP, Columbia University, New York  2010
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The Sky-scraper revitalized: Differentiation, Interface, Navigation
Keynote Talk at Tall Buildings Conference, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 2006
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  Mumbai 2005
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  Morality and Materialism, AA 1997
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  Lectures theorizing architecture
   
01 · 2019

Patrik Schumacher, Smart Cities – The Architect’s Perspective
Lecture at the ‘Smart Cities – Smart Buildings’ conference organized by ZHA & ABB
for the UK chapter of Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats (CTBUH), at RIBA, London

07 · 2018 Cyborg-Superman
Tongji University, Shanghai July 2018
02 · 2018 Agent-based Parametric Semiology
Taliesin West, Feb 2018
11 · 2017 Architecture in the Age of Digital Production- Tectonism in the Context of Parametric Semiology
Ecole nationale superieure d’architecture, Paris-Malaquais, Nov 2017
09 · 2017 The Legacy of Zaha Hadid - Retrospective and Prospective
UIA 2017 Seoul World Architects Congress, September 2017
07 · 2017 Tectonism – Tectonic Articulation in the Context of Architectural Semiology
Digital Future Forum, Tongji University, Shanghai
01 · 2017 Formalism and Formal Research
Edgar A. Tafel Lecture Series, Cornell University, 1st of February 2017
10 · 2014 Setting the Agenda for 21st Century Architecture and Design
Debate organised by ArchAgenda, Chicago Architecture Biennial Affiliate Program Partner, October 2015
06 · 2014 Parametric Order – 21st Century Architectural Order
School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY USA
02 · 2014 The Global Impact of Parametricism on Architecture and Society
ARQ Magazine, London, February 20th 2014
02 · 2014 The Autopoiesis of Architecture
London, February 2014
02 · 2014 Assemblage vs Organism – Video 1
AA/ZHA Seminars, London, February 2014
02 · 2014 Assemblage vs Organism – Video 2
AA/ZHA Seminars, London, February 2014
02 · 2014 Assemblage vs Organism – Video 3
AA/ZHA Seminars, London, February 2014
02 · 2014 Assemblage vs Organism – Video 4
AA/ZHA Seminars, London, February 2014
02 · 2014 Assemblage vs Organism – Video 5
AA/ZHA Seminars, London, February 2014
02 · 2014 Assemblage vs Organism – Video 6
AA/ZHA Seminars, London, February 2014
02 · 2012 Parametric Order – 21st Century Architectural Order
Lecture at Georgia Tech, February 2012
02 · 2012 Parametricism – Parametric Tower Research – Part 1
Keynote lecture at AIT Architectural Salon, Cologne, January 2012
02 · 2012 Parametricism – Parametric Tower Research – Part 2
Keynote lecture at AIT Architectural Salon, Cologne, January 2012
07 · 2012 Parametricism – Parametric Tower Research, Film (GERMAN)
AIT Architectural Salon, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, Jan – July 2012

08 · 2011

Speculation as Material Process
Lecture at Symposium: Proto/e/co/logics – Speculative Materialism in Architecture,
Curated by Alisa Andrasek & Bruno Juricic, Rovinji, Croatia

04 · 2011 SLIVER Lecture
University of Applied Arts · Vienna
12 · 2010 The Autopoiesis of Architecture
AA Architectural Association School of Architecture · London
09 · 2010 Parametricism and the Autopoiesis of Architecture – Part 1
SCI - Arch
Southern California Institute of Architecture
09 · 2010 Parametricism and the Autopoiesis of Architecture – Part 2
SCI - Arch
Southern California Institute of Architecture
12 · 2009 INTENSIVE FIELDS Keynote Address: PARAMETRICISM
A new global style for architecture, urbanism and design, Conference
USC · Los Angeles
12 · 2009 INTENSIVE FIELDS Discussion
David Gerber · USC; Stefano Di Martino · USC; Greg Otto · USC; Peter Zellner · SCI-Arc; Xu Wei-Guo · Tsinghua; Patrik Schumacher ·Zaha Hadid Architects
AA · London
11 · 2009 Parametricism
Aristotle University · Thessaloniki · Greece
03 · 2009 XPERIMENTA Master Lecture Parametric Positions
Royal College of Art · London
2007 AA Lecture Parametric Urbanism
Architecture Association · London
10 · 2003 Lecture at Institute for Experimental Architecture
Innsbruck
1999 Conceptual, Social and Spatial Order
Lecture at the Berlage Institute · Amsterdam
1997 Morality and Materialism
Ethics Lecture Series
Architectural Association · London
   
   
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