Title: Marking Entropy
In this talk, Troy Schaum uses recent work by his practice SCHAUM/SHIEH to investigate the formal production of architecture in the dispersed and disintegrating contexts of the contemporary x-urban metropolis. Marking Entropy draws on built and ongoing projects as well as speculative explorations in research and teaching.

Bio
Troy Schaum is an Associate Professor at Rice Architecture and a partner in SCHAUM/SHIEH, where his design and research interests focus on new possibilities for form, representation, and politics in the post-megalopolitan city. Recent and ongoing work includes a masterplan for the Judd Foundation and a restoration of the Chamberlain Building for the Chinati Foundation, both in Marfa, Texas, the Transart House and the White Oak Music Hall in Houston, and residential projects in Virginia and Texas. SCHAUM/SHIEH was a finalist in the 2017 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, named one of the 2016 New Practices New York by the AIA and was recently selected as for the 2019 Emerging Voices Series by the Architectural League of New York. Schaum’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, MoMA, Art Prize in Grand Rapids, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Yale SOA, Harvard GSD, and the Center for Architecture in New York, and published in many journals including: Detail, Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect, Dezeen, Domus, Architect, and Architectural Record.