For more information contact:
Teri Nagel, College of Architecture
Contact Teri Nagel
404-385-2156
Location: Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium
Event Date: November 9, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM—7:30 PM
plexus r+d is a research and design studio founded in 1999 by Jordan Williams and Erik Lewitt. Plexus is dedicated to creating innovative projects that explore the cultural significance of architecture by revealing the critical role it plays in enhancing our lives, articulating experiences that are intellectually and aesthetically productive. This is achieved thorough an understanding of contemporary social and cultural forces together with a clear sense of specific project goals and each client’s mission. We creatively deploy this knowledge to establish powerful and engaging connections between our designs and the physical, social, cultural, political and economic contexts they occupy. We are particularly interested in an understanding of the world as a complex web of distinct movements and forces that frequently fail to engage and enhance each other. Our designs create resonance by utilizing this understanding to establish surprising connections between distinct ideas, yielding powerful, compelling and thought provoking experiences.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.