Pag© 4 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1975
ECOFAIR looks to the future
ECOFAIR series
features experts
The Association of Student Chap
ters of the American Institute of Ar
chitects (ASC/AIA) in co-operation
with the Artist in Residence Pro
gram is presenting a series of lec
tures and discussions.
Paolo Soleri, a Frank Lloyd
Wright — trained architect,
philosopher and artisan, will speak
on his particular brand of architec
ture, based on organic principles.
Soleri served as an apprentice to
Wright for 18 months and is the au
thor of “Arcology: The City in the
Image of Man.”
ARCOLOGY is a word Soleri
coined as a fusion of two words: ar
chitecture and ecology. After many
years of sketching and writing about
cities and observing the condition
and nature of urban man, he drew
an analogy between the process of
human development in an urban
environment and the process of
natural evolution.
He noted a tendency in nature for
organisms of greater and greater
complexity to take up smaller and
smaller spaces.
The city structure must contract
in order to support the complex ac
tivities within it, Soleri says.
He is presently building a self-
contained city in a desert in
Arizona.
Paul Rudolf, famed architect from
New York will speak on “Space and
Architecture.”
Graham Collier from the Univer
sity of Georgia, will speak on “Art
and Human Conscienceness.” Prof.
Collier is an artist, author and his
torian.
Richard Lippold, internationally
recognized sculptor, speaks on “Art
and Illusion.”
U. T. Professor Wolf Hilbertz will
speak on “Evolutionary Environ
ments, Riotecture and Symbiotic
Processes.”
Athelstan Spilhaus who is an en
gineer, Oceanographer and Inven
tor will talk on “Future Design
Priorities, Seaward Expansion, Un
derwater Cities.”
Austin-based building sculptor
Charles Harker will speak on con
cepts of “Building Curvilinear
Buildings with Spray Plastic Sys
tems.”
Medard Gabel author of “Earth,
Energy and Everyone” will speak
on “Alternate Strategies for Global
Energy Development.”
Besides these, John Focke will
speak on “Programming and Fas-
tracking,” some new concepts being
studied. Dudley Watkins will speak
on “Correctional Architecture,”
which deals with prisons and jails.
Dusan Poniz from A&M will give
his talk on “Geometry and Architec
ture. ”
The working model of a means ol
tapping solar energy will be demon
strated by Peter Zweig and Dr.
Davidson on top of the Zachry En
gineering Building.
Rodney Hill will talk about the
type of thinking which considers
many different factors at the same
time while working toward solving a
problem. His speech is entitled
“Lateral Tbinking.”
Pliny Fisk considers the methods
of designing whole systems in rela
tion to larger and smaller systems.
His speech is on “Holistic Diversity
in Holistic Design, Biohabitats.”
Finally, Allen Seale discusses the
“Integrative Food and Energy Sys
tem.”
Design symposium
New, newer merge
Biotecture, underwater cities,
curvilinear buildings and a solar
energy workshop are among the to
pics to be brought together at
TAMU next week in the first
ECOFAIR.
ECOFAIR is the culmination of a
two-year effort on the part of en
vironmental design students to
bring such a symposium to campus.
The fair is sponsored by the Associa
tion of Student Chapters of the
American Institute of Architects in
cooperation with the Artist-in-
Residence program and the College
of Architecture.
A geodesic dome-style egg, de
signed and built by TAMU graduate
student Jocko Taylor, will appear in
front of the MSC as part of the event
next week.
ECOFAIR will include speakers,
workshops and round table discus
sions.
Friday afternoon, a special lunch
in celebration of World Food Day
will be featured. Although World
Food Day is not until April 17, it will
be included in next week’s fes
tivities because of its inherent re
lativity to what ECOFAIR is all
about, explained Greg Watkins,
student coordinator of the event.
ECOFAIR will deal with solving
futuristic problems by coordinating
art, architecture and environmental
design.
An example of such creative prob
lem solving is Wolf Hilbertz’s work.
Hilbertz has incorporated natural
biological processes into building
construction. For instance he has
taken a structure frame, submerged
week of present and future architeo
tural design study based on the “in
terdisciplinary approach” to the
problems mid their solutions.
Students can register for $1 April |
4 through ECOFAIR week. Thisin- [
eludes participation in the World
Food Day luncheon and a party Fri
day evening.
ECOFAIR schedule of events
Monday
9 a.m.
10 a.m.
11 a.m.
1:30 P.M.
MSC 212 & 224
MSC 212 & 224
MSC 212 & 224
MSC 212
Paul Rudolf
Graham Collier
Richard Lippold
Panel
Discussion
Tuesday
9:30 a.m.
11 a.m.
1 p.m.
3 p.m.
MSC 225
MSC 225
MSC 225
MSC 225
John Focke &
Will Pena
Dudley Watkins
Dusan Poniz
Allen Seale
Wednesday
10 a.m. MSC
1 p.m. MSC
225 & 226
225& 226
Athelstan
Spilhaus
Wolf Hilbertz
Greg Watkins, student coordi
nator of ECOFAIR
Peter Zweig, faculty coordina
tor of ECOFAIR
it, allowed calcium deposits to form
around the frame and come up with
a shell harder than present day
man-made processes. Hilbertz will
speak Wednesday afternoon.
Coordinator Greg Watkins sees
ECOFAIR as “a necessary event to
keep the department (environmen
tal design) updated. ” Although new
to A&M, such an event is by no
means new to college campuses.
ECOFAIR was originally con
ceived as an outdoor festival of
workshops, speakers, exhibits and
people interacting with the envi
ronment. Though ECOFAIR has
gone indoors, its theme has been
retained.
Debby Dockery, ASC president,
feels ECOFAIR “has a good start”
and has great hopes and expecta
tions that it will become an annual
event and one which will expand
more each year.
ECOFAIR will be an intensive
Debra Dockery, student co-
odinator of ECOFAIR
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