By wpengine October 25, 2002
Discussing the incorporation of nature and the environment in his creations, Australian architect Glenn Murcutt, the Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, spoke to an assembly of students from the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at the State Theatre yesterday. “Architecture is not only about buildings. It is about landscaping, it’s about environment. I love elements. I love to deal with fire, wind and landscape,” Murcutt said. Though the lecture was not mandatory for students, it did attract many students from the architecture college. “He is a very famous architect, and we all know his work. We were very excited that he was coming,” said Jing Wang ’06, a student in the architecture college. The lecture began with an introduction by Prof. Nasrine Seraji, architecture. It then continued with Murcutt, who explained some of his reasons for being an architect. “I am a very restless person. I felt I needed a combination of teaching, practice and travel,” he said. Though Murcutt works on many projects, he explained that he did not go into architecture to make money. Instead of creating large projects, Murcutt creates smaller projects that he can experiment with. Murcutt then showed slides of some of his work, including houses from all over Australia that incorporate the culture of the Australian Aboriginal people. He explained that it was important to incorporate nature and environment into buildings. “We need to be friends with the landscape, not threatened by it,” Murcutt said. Many students said that they greatly enjoyed the lecture. “To hear him talk about his architecture is incredible. He is so incredibly intense about his ideas. It’s inspiring,” Wang said. Students who attended the lecture were already familiar with Murcutt’s work, as he has often been praised by the architecture community. This past spring, Murcutt was awarded the 2002 Pritzker Prize. The Prize, the architectural equivalent of the Nobel Prize, was established in 1979. Since then it has been awarded to such famous names as I.M. Pei, Frank O. Gehry, and Rem Koolhaas. However, Murcutt is a standout in this group because, unlike most other winners of the award, he is a one man-practice. The public lecture was part of the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture series, sponsored by the Department of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. It is part of an annual symposium which will concentrate on the debate over environmental sustainability. Entitled, “Towards a Well-Tempered Architecture,” the symposium takes place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26. According to many members of the architecture community, the lecture and the symposium have been well-publicized and well-received within the architecture college. “This is the first architecture lecture I have ever been to. It sounded really interesting from the posters and I thought it was awesome,” said Jessica Boddorff ’05. “I mean, his whole analysis of his sites, all of his roofs were slanted to account for sun, heating, and cooling. The elements –that’s really the core of architecture.” Archived article by Erica Temel
By wpengine October 25, 2002
The women’s soccer team will look for its second Ivy League win of the season when it faces Brown (5-6-2, 0-3-1 Ivy) tomorrow in Providence, R.I. for a 5 p.m. contest. The Red (7-4-1, 1-4) is coming off a big 4-0 win against Wagner on Wednesday night at Berman Field, while the Bears failed to secure its first Ivy win of the season last weekend, losing to Princeton. “In some ways, it’s a lot easier for us to play an away game because we’re all together. Obviously weekend games are easier that way, because you have concentration, not like a weekday game where you have school all day, and then a game,” commented head coach Berhane Andeberhan. On a chilly night, the booters came out red-hot against a weak Wagner squad, notching the first goal in the 17th minute. Senior co-captain Sarah Olsen had the scoring touch, finding the back of net twice on feeds from freshman Shannon Fraser. Olsen now leads in the team in goals with four, while Fraser maintained her role as the team’s top scorer. Junior Leigh Ann Schwartz recorded her first collegiate tally and junior Emily Knight scored her third goal of the season in the win. The Red defense was also superb, only allowing Wagner one shot throughout the entire contest. Brown jumped out to an early lead against No. 15 Princeton on Saturday, with junior Michaela Sewall connecting on a feed from senior Caitlin Carey in the 7th minute. The Bears would hold on to the lead until the 70th minute, when Princeton tied the game. Ten minutes later, the Tigers would seal the victory to remain the only unbeaten, untied team in the country. Junior keeper Sarah Gervais had seven saves in net for the Bears, who were outshot 18-3 by the Tigers. Last year, the Red and the Bears battled to a 1-1 tie at Berman Field. The booters have been shutout in four out of five Ivy contests this season. Cornell has only allowed 10 goals this season, which is the second fewest in the Ivy League behind Princeton. Those goals have all come in conference games. “Tactically, the things we want to do we are pretty clear on. Theorizing about them as a coach and then putting it to practice on the field isn’t always easy. We’ll review the kind of things we need to do for the game,” said Andeberhan. Brown has been struggling of late, dropping four of its last six contests. In four Ivy matches this season, the Bears have come away with a tie against Columbia. The Red will need to come out strong from the beginning against a Brown team that is hungry for its first Ivy win this year. “There are a couple of things they do that are kind of marginal, shall we say, to be polite, on corner kicks, and we’re prepared for them. Ultimately, if we just settle down and play our game, and play for five minutes at a time, I feel relatively confident that we can win,” remarked Andeberhan. The booters will hit the road next week for an in-state battle at Syracuse before returning home for the final game of the season against Princeton next Saturday in Ithaca. Archived article by Jonathan Auerbach