Lecture

Masterplanet by BIG

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A lecture by Bjarke Ingels, founding partner of Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona – based Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) with response by Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia GSAPP. BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. The office … Read more

Dresden 2025: Rem Koolhaas

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Rem Koolhaas, one of the most important architects of our time, will kick off the international Neue Heimat Talks series of speeches. In an interview with the curator of Dresden’s application for European Capital of Culture 2025, Michael Schindhelm, he talks about the crisis and future of urban space in Europe.

Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten on the countryside

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Rem Koolhaas is among the most celebrated and exciting architects working today. From the gravity-defying CCTV Headquarters in Beijing to the startling Seattle Central Library to the hallucinogenic ‘vertical city’ De Rotterdam complex, the work of the office of the Pritzker Prize-winner is audacious and always unpredictable. As co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture … Read more

Jacques Herzog, Harvard (2016)

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date:
2016
location:
Cambridge, MA
description:
“Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership led by five Senior Partners – Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler and Stefan Marbach. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron established their office in Basel in 1978. The partnership has grown over the years. An international team of about 420 collaborators is working on more than 50 projects across Europe, North and South America and Asia. Herzog & de Meuron are known for designs that are at once highly inventive and sensitive to the site, geography, and cultural context creating projects that are highly specific to their place and program brief, from the small-scale private home to large-scale public and cultural facilities. The practice has been awarded numerous prizes including The Pritzker Architecture Prize (USA) in 2001, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (UK) and the Praemium Imperiale (Japan), both in 2007. In 2014, Herzog & de Meuron were awarded the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach.”

Zaha Hadid, Sci-Arc (1985)

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February 21, 1985
“Zaha Hadid reviews her work at the AA with Rem Koolhaas, and, before that, with Leon Krier. She stresses her interest in the Russian avant-garde. She expresses her need to seriously engage with twentieth century culture. She describes her first independent projects after leaving the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. She explores the ideas of dynamics, also referred to by some as hysterics. She argues for the importance of color as a way of manipulating building and space. She discusses her competition project for the Peak Leisure Club in Hong Kong.”
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Rem Koolhaas, Sci-Arc (1983)

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November 16, 1983
“Rem Koolhaas describes the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s recent Parc de la Villette competition entry. He goes into great detail describing every aspect of the entry, from inception to concept and analysis to project. Dozens of slides of the enormous model walk the viewer through the project’s organization, collection of activities, and integrated infrastructure. As Koolhaas progresses, he reveals the office’s current work, reasons for moving back and forth between Europe and America, and his thoughts on the current architectural scene.”
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Rem Koolhaas: Russia for Beginners

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In 2015, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s new building will open to the public. Rem Koolhaas, the lead architect of this project, will discuss his experiences working in Russia and the challenges of preserving architectural heritage in the modern world. Koolhaas will also present the development plan for Garage’s new space. Rem Koolhaas is a … Read more

Rafael Vinoly: 432 Park Avenue and other towers

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Rafael Viñoly is the founding principal of Rafael Viñoly Architects PC, a New York-based firm with an international practice. Viñoly’s award-winning designs include museums, performing arts centers, convention centers, and numerous research and academic buildings and complexes. His commercial high-rise work began in the 1980s, and he explored innovative forms and structural strategies in several … Read more

Sylvia Lavin, AA (2007)

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date:
2007
location:
London, UK
description:
“Building upon the recognition that contemporaneity is as much an epistemological and historical problem as it is a question of novelty, Sylvia Lavin discusses different cultural and social manifestations of the contemporary in relation to architecture. A leading figure in current debates on affect and mood, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design. Lavin is working on her next book, The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity and a series of exhibitions on design culture of the late 1960s. She is an editor of Crib Sheets – a compilation of polemical writings – and author of Form Follows Libido? Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture. Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architectural History and Theory in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA.”

Rem Koolhaas – S, M, L, XL

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Lecture date: 1995-11-29 Rem Koolhaas presents his innovative and influential publication S,M,L,XL. Designed in collaboration with Bruce Mau, written as a kamikaze critique of the work of the OMA office, Koolhaas describes the book as an architectural novel which aims at modesty at a megalomaniac scale. Rem Koolhaas is a former student and tutor at … Read more