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Books and Bytes talk with Rafael Beneytez-Duran

Please join us in the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library for a talk with author Rafael Beneytez-Duran at 5 pm on Wednesday, October 23rd.  
 
Books and Bytes is a series of talks by local authors who discuss the research, writing, and publication of their art, architecture, or design book. Our community of scholars is invited to participate in discussions afterward, so they may learn from one another’s experiences. Books and Bytes is co-sponsored by the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and the University of Houston Libraries.
 
Dr. Beneytez-Duran’s 2024 publication, Bodies of Air: Air as Architectural Materiality (published as Materialidad del Aire in Spanish) is a conscious effort to address the body of air within architecture discourse will help these questions to be meaningful for architecture practice. The transscalar dimension of architecture challenges the conventional apparatus of architecture, opening questions about process, time, and entropy as opposed to form, space, and order.  
 
Dr. Beneytez-Duran is principal of Z4A Houston and Z4Z4 Madrid, as well as Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Architecture at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston.  
 
 

Written by Catherine Essinger on October 17th, 2024 and filed under Jenkins