Michael Kubo at the Van Alen

ACTAR Presents: Verb

openhousenewyork

SATURDAY OCTOBER 7, 2006 - 2:00-7:00pm

SUNDAY OCTOBER 8, 2006 - 12:00-5:00pm

Van Alen Institute is once again opening its doors for the annual openhousenewyork weekend, and this year will host an exhibit and presentation of Verb, a hybrid book-magazine series edited by ACTAR that investigates the current state of architectural production.

Please note that there will be a discussion and reception on Saturday, October 7th at 6:00pm. Michael Kubo, editor of Verb and Director of ACTAR New York, will introduce the series. Kazys Varnelis, architectural theorist and Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, will discuss his ongoing collaboration with the Verb project. Benjamin Aranda, architect and Director of Aranda / Lasch, will discuss his participation in the forthcoming fifth issue of the series, Verb Natures.

Verb Boogazine is a hybrid book-magazine combining the topicality and flexibility of a traditional magazine with the depth and format of a book, permitting both experimental and comprehensive approaches to diverse themes of investigation. Published since 2002, each of the four Boogazines - Processing, Matters, Connection, and Conditioning - explores a specific aspect of current architectural production: the processing of information at all stages of the materialization of a work, the current formal and material possibilities of architecture in the information age, the physical and virtual links between programs and users, and the design of new atmospheres and effects in the age of real artificiality. The related series of Verb Monographs - The Yokohama Project, Sendai Mediatheque, Seattle Public Library, and Desert America - presents a forum for monographic treatments of themes first explored in the Boogazines, allowing the full stories of specific buildings or conditions to be told in-depth.

Van Alen Institute is located at 30 W. 22^nd Street, 6^th Floor. Take the Q, N, R or F, V trains to 23^rd Street.

Event is free and open to the public - no registration required.

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Over the course of the past century, the Van Alen Institute has consistently cultivated a fellowship of practitioners and scholars, awarded excellence in design, and fostered dialogue about architecture as a public practice. Today, as conventionally defined fields of knowledge give way to new disciplines and alternative methodologies, VAI reclaims its legacy as an architectural institute that is dedicated to critical inquiry surrounding contemporary forms of public space and new configurations of interdisciplinary practice.

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Michael Kubo
ACTAR
158 Lafayette St. 5th Floor
New York NY 10013
E: michael@actar-mail.com
www.actar.com