LEVRAT DESIGN

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture organized a conference regarding the State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Under the organization and leadership of the Dean, Bernard Tschumi sixty six of the most famous architects in the world and theoretician of architecture participated in a two day symposium. 

Frederic Levrat was instrumental in the early conceptual planning of the topics, discussing the eight different themes with Bernard Tschumi. Fred Levrat was a respondent in the panel Technology+Perception. A movie was produced on the subject which included most of the intervenants, including Zaha hadid, Kenneth Frampton, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Wolfgang Prix and many other leaders of the profession. 

The movie trailer can be found on Youtube at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZgknj-PNYQ

In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the world's leading architectural designers and theorists -- Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Thom Mayne, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and many others -- for a conference at Columbia University. The exceptional array was asked to predict the conversations and directions of architectural practice in the 21st century. Speakers addressed the categories of current architectural discourse -- form, aesthetics, material, detail, politics -- and questioned their future validity. Other topics included architects' obsession with the detail, the possibility of practicing a politics of material, the definition of an avant-garde urbanism, the importance of form beyond its aesthetic value, and whether architecture can directly influence the social world. The State of Architecture brings together manifestos, musings, and meditations to capture the key polemics raised by this extraordinary convocation of thinkers

Space and Design Magazine June 1995 is dedicated to the issue of The Potential For Using Computer in Architecture. Fred Levrat participation is in three different level of contribution.

Fred Levrat Interviewed Peter Eisenman on his approach to new technology in his thinking design and philosophical thinking. 

Fred Levrat also interviewed Hani Rashid of Asymptote Architects about the use and the potential of computing in architecture. Rashid spoke about Virtuality and virtual spaces in architecture.

Levrat's third contribution was an article about his own office production, ArX New York. Among the featured projects was the Zurich Europan 5 winning entry, as well as the international  cultural exploration produced by ArX international. The Spreebogen Competition for the new Capital District of Berlin was featured where ArX was a finalist for one of the largest international competition ever organized.