Visual Catalysts

Thursday 23.11.2023 @17:30-19:00 at BPB506

Perry Kulper is an architect and Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In a prior life he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 17 years and held visiting teaching positions at Penn and ASU during that time. After his graduate studies at Columbia University, he worked with Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles.

His primary interests include: the roles and generative potential of architectural drawing; the different spatial opportunities offered by using diverse design methods in design practices; and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination. In 2013, he published Pamphlet Architecture 34, ‘Fathoming the Unfathomable: Archival Ghosts and Paradoxical Shadows’ with friend and collaborator Nat Chard. They are at work on a new book to be published by UCL Press. He was the Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2018-19. Recently, he optimistically ventured into the digital world attempting to get a handle on ‘cut + paste’ and ‘magic wand’ operations in Photoshop—as a result, he encountered one of his steeper learning curves. Even more recently, he has also been snooping around under the hood of said digital realms. Fantastic beasts have also been on his mind.