Category Archives: Lecture Series
Juhani Pallasmaa
Juhani Pallasmaa is former professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and a former director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Since 2009 Pallasmaa is the member of the Pritzker Price Jury. Among Pallasmaa’s many books on architectural theory is “The Eyes of the Skin – Architecture and the Senses”, a book that has become a classic of architectural theory and is required reading on courses in schools of architecture around the world. The lecture presents Pallasmaa’s recent work. It is sponsored by Realdania’s research centre “Strategisk Byforskmomg”.
Kasper Guldager Jørgensen
The word design is mainly associated with the design of objects – that is, external objects that relate to the human scale. In the world of materials, design is something internal. The development of production methods on the micro scale has led to far greater control of how we design and construct new materials – a kind of design mainly invisible to the eye.
Christian Veddeler
As tooling evolves into adaptable design controls, with proper strategy and administration, this approach to design will go well beyond form generation, collaboration, time-saving and bottom-lining into the manipulation of our understanding of the role we architects should, could or would want to have.
Within the relevant discourse, target could, again, be formulated to generate speculative design scenarios for enduring architectures.
Snøhetta
Jenny Osuldsens is partner at the architectural office Snøhetta, Norway. She has been at Snøhetta since 1995, as a managing director of the Snøhetta New York office in 2006-7. Jenny Osuldsen is educated as a landscape architect from Norwegian University of Life Sciences and from CalPoly Pomona, Los Angeles, USA.
Daniel Bosia
Daniel Bosia is by June 1st apointed Adjunct Professor at Department for Architecture and Media Technology at AAU. Bosia is Director at UK based AKT II and head of the specialist team p.art ®. He holds a MSc in Structural and Bridge Engineering and a Master Degree in Architecture. He has worked at Arup for more than twelve years, collaborating with architects such as Daniel Libeskind, Toyo Ito and Enric Miralles and with artists such as Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Matthew Ritchie. He has lectured in Universities in Europe and the US and he is a Fellow of the NSLO research center at UPenn. Bosia has designed and delivered several projects in the last few years, which have become icons of contemporary art and architecture. He has cofounded and hence lead the AGU at ARUP for more than 5 years from a cutting edge research unit to a profitable practice with a recognised brand, rich portfolio and exclusive client base.
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Atelier Bow Wow
Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow are known as much for the books they produce as for the houses they design. The two outputs are inextricably linked — the former researching the urban conditions of Tokyo, where the duo lives, and the latter a fairly direct product of such research on hybrid conditions, small buildings and so forth.
Lars Juel Thiis
Danmarks fysiske indretning er ved at køre af sporet, og vores fremtidige levebrød bliver sværere og sværere at definere. Vækst, ja, men hvordan? Vores kulturelle identitet, vores landskaber og byer består jo af store potentialer, så hvorfor har vi ikke længere hverken indsigten eller redskaberne til at forløse dem? Lad os, inden vi har savet grenen over vi sidder på, insistere på Danmarks og hverdagens kvaliteter, og vise en vej for en ny fysisk agenda, hvor vi sammen udnytter det fælles arvegods, bruger den kreative vidensektor, som alle snakker om, og former den sammenhængskraft, som alle drømmer om.
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Dick van Gameren
The concepts ‘standard’ and ‘ideal’ are inextricably associated in housing design. In the last 100 years, efforts to create standardized and optimized affordable dwellings produced an endlessly varied series of designs for the ideal home, some built, some not. The recent economic and demographic changes have given renewed relevance to the call to reformalute housing ideals. Starting form a historic perspective and showing recent examples from his own work, Dick van Gameren will discuss new ideas and solutions for housing in urban contexts.
Dick van Gameren is professor of Architecture and Dwelling since 2006. Currently, he is also chair of the Architecture Department at TU Delft and part of the group integrating Berlage at TU Delf.
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ding 3000
The design philosophy of DING3000 cannot be described by a dogma or an ‘ism’. The designs come about through a situation, product and customer-oriented design process which takes place somewhere in-between method and magic. The way to the product lies in the search for a new, better, different, unjustly forgotten, humorous idea. The resulting formal and functional perfection is largely due to this idea. The work of DING3000 is evidence of the pleasure they take in challenging materials, products and not least people’s behavior. Often they question available solutions and popular assumptions and proceed in a way that is contradictory to them. As a result, DING3000 continually discovers creative “virgin soil” off the beaten track.
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