An illustrated lecture by Robert Kirkbride, Ph.D., director of studio ‘patafisico,’ and Associate Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments.

Date: Tuesday, November 11th
Time: 8pm
Admissions: $8 ( Tickets Here )
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424A Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn NY

Author of “Architecture and Memory” and lead architect of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, Dr. Kirkbride will reveal the museum’s anatomical construction and reflect on its position in a legacy of memory theaters, medieval reliquaries, renaissance studioli, and cabinets-of-curiosities.

As director of studio ‘patafisico and Associate Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments,Kirkbride examine influences of memory and identity through artifacts, furniture, interiors, ornament, installations, buildings, cities and landscapes. In the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, NY, recently designed with Anthony Cohn, Kirkbride goal was to create in the Gowanus neighborhood a building-as-cabinet where knowledge that typically “slips through the cracks” is produced and exhibited. In his multimedia book, Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro (Columbia University Press, Gutenberg-e Prize), he investigated the architectural mnemonics in two pre-Columbian contemplation chambers, and further examined the subject in a guest-edited volume, Geometries of Rhetoric, for the Nexus Network Journal (Birkhäuser), and a chapter on architecture and rhetoric in the renaissance for The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies. Kirkbride has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and architect-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy. Projects have been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, TACK Magazine, Floornature, Chora 4, Mark Magazine, C3, Alphabet City’s FUEL, WATER, and AIR, and others. Recently I established the Giuseppe Zambonini Archive – including drawings, models, recorded lectures and ephemera – at the Kellen Design Archives, The New School. Kirkbride has been an editorial board member of the Nexus Network Journal, commissioning editor for Alphabet City, visiting critic at the University of Edinburgh, guest professor at the University of Montréal, and conducted design charrettes at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.He received a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University, and a Master of Architecture and BA in Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania.