“The Performity of Space:  Architecture as the Production of Sound”

In the Fall Term of 2009, David Lieberman will be conducting a graduate research studio in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo in Cambridge furthering the exploration of architecture as a performing art and continuing previously funded research in the development of architectural scale musical instruments.

Xenakis Project:  in the Americas

David Lieberman has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Xenakis Project:  in the Americas, an institute to be established at CUNY, the City University of New York, as a sister organization to the CCMIX (the association originally created by Iannis  Xenakis in 1985 as Atelier UPIC).  The CCMIX is to be renamed Project Xenakis and may be relocating to the Centre Culturel de LaTourette, complete with a studio for interdisciplinary studies of music and architecture, a project for which David Lieberman is advisor to the French Ministry of Culture.  “Iannis Xenakis:  Composer, Architect, Visionary” opens at the Drawings Center in Manhattan 14 Janaury 2010 and will travel to the CCA, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal in June.  “Xenakis:  Past, Present, Future” will be co-hosted by the BXMC,  the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at the Polytechnic Institute  of New York University.  David Lieberman has been on the Advisory Board of the graduate program in Integrated Digital Media Studies since its inception and will be presenting research work at the symposium in late January.

North House Solar Decathalon

David Lieberman is Faculty Advisor for the University of Waterloo for this year’s Team North entry in the Solar Decathalon sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, one of twenty experimental houses to be built on the Mall in Washington DC during the month of October.  Team North includes students from the University of Waterloo, Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University and is led by Waterloo Professors, Geoffrey Thun and Ekaterina Velikov.  Research funding comes from a variety of government and industry sources in both the United States and Canada including a major grant from the OPA, the Ontario Power Authority.  David Lieberman, as technical advisor to the research has a key role with respect to materials selection, fabrication and assembly and in addressing the exigencies of construction and coordination of the build including systems integration. 

For further information:  http://www.team-north.com/  http://www.solardecathalon.org/