By adapting architectural ideas from Jesse Reiser’s and Nanako Umemoto’s Atlas of Novel Tectonics and Sanford Kwinter’s introduction “The Judo of Cold Combustion," Banning Bouldin, founder of Nashville-based New Dialect, has developed new means for generating contemporary dances. The result is a multiyear, collaborative effort coalescing in two cross-disciplinary productions, Atlas Kid and Guncotton.

The following lecture was presented by principal Jesse Reiser on April 19, 2021, at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Drawing upon the firm’s work over the past 30 years, Jesse relates them to discipline-wide trends and recent developments in and around the field of architecture, including advances in structural engineering and renewed calls for social and environmental responsibility. The lecture will appear in Spanish as part of an upcoming book, Teorías Proyectivas, edited by Professor Santiago Miret and to be published in 2022.