Entanglements Lecture: HANNAH
Monday, February 17, 2025
6:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Expressing Fabrication
The lecture will present how cutting-edge material and construction innovations in robotic timber fabrication and concrete 3D printing are translated into design projects. The talk demonstrates HANNAH’s digitally-informed approach that fosters architecture that is materially resourceful, formally expressive, and contextually responsive through a synergistic dual focus on research and practice.
About HANNAH
HANNAH is an experimental design and research studio that works across scales, from furniture to buildings to urbanism. Co-founded by Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, the office has a keen interest in architectural explorations grounded in material expression, digital fabrication, and construction. The studio’s work aims to mine the tension between machine means and architectural ends.
HANNAH is the recipient of the Architectural League Prize, named Best New Practices by Archdaily and Next Progressives by Architect Magazine, and a winner of the Folly/Function Competition. The studio’s work has been published in Architectural Record, a+u, Architect Magazine, Log, the New York Times, Dwell, and Dezeen, among others. In addition, it has been exhibited internationally at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the Total Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, Craft Contemporary, the Momentary, Art OMI, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and the Bi‑City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen.
Lok and Zivkovic are also faculty of architecture at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP). Lok leads the Rural-Urban Building Innovation Laboratory, while Zivkovic directs the Robotic Construction Laboratory—both pioneering new approaches that merge digital methodologies with sustainable material practices.
This lecture is a part of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design’s Entanglements Lecture Series.
- Location
- Architecture Building Theater