Teulo Talks: 5th August 2022: Part Two Arturo Tedeschi + Hagy Belzberg

11.30am - 12.10pm

Arturo Tedeschi Podcast

Arturo started his career in 2004, combining professional practice with personal research on algorithms-aided design (AAD). His focus is on the relationship between architecture and emerging technologies.

He has collaborated with Zaha Hadid and Ross Lovegrove and published technical reference books on parametric architecture and AAD.

In this podcast we touch on computational design and parametric architecture and design

12.10pm - 1.10pm

Hagy Belzberg

Belzberg Architects

BIO:

Hagy Belzberg, FAIA, OAA, is an American architect based in Santa Monica, California. He is the founding partner of the architecture and interior design firm Belzberg Architects.

Belzberg was born in Tel Aviv to a sculptor (his mother) and an aerospace engineer (his father),[1] and raised in Los Angeles. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. While a student, he spent the summers interning at Frank O. Gehry & Associates, and after graduation, returned to LA to work there for three months[2] before leaving to found Belzberg Architects in 1997.[3]

His work is located across North America including projects in Mexico City, Toronto, Edmonton, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, and Washington D.C.[4][5] Belzberg was honored by the California Council of American Institute of Architects as an Emerging Talent in 2008 and an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York in the same year.[6] In 2010, he was elected to the college of Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for "notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture.”[7]

He was a two-term director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects from 2000 to 2002, and in 2014, was inducted into the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame.[8]

Since 1994, Belzberg has held undergraduate- and graduate-level teaching and lecture positions at UCLA, University of Southern California (USC), and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.[9]

His firm's work has been published in over 200 publications in more than 35 countries,[10] has received numerous awards,[11] and has been part of several exhibitions including the 2013 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles' "A New Sculpturalism, Contemporary Architecture from Southern California".

Talk topic:

MC + LA

Hagy Belzberg will present two projects in Los Angeles and two projects in Mexico City. Each project approaches the contextual and vernacular through materiality and investigates digital fabrication through alternate means of construction.