Symposium on architecture 29 & 30 August 2008
Venue: Kulturhuset, Sergels torg, Stockholm
The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts presents The Stockholm Seminar.
The Stockholm Seminar is a meeting about architecture with a focus on the buildings and projects of significant contemporary architects. The symposium will last for two days, during which architects from Europe, the US and China will give lectures to present their projects and their completed works.
The Stockholm Seminar is intended to provide substance for the public debate on architecture as a discipline and to inspire a Scandinavian audience by presenting a group of significant architects.
The Stockholm Seminar is intended to complement the current development of theory in the subject of architecture by drawing attention to a group of architects whose approach to their work can tentatively be described as reflective rather than theoretical or programmatic. The focus will be placed on works that both fulfil practical, and in many cases everyday, functions, and at the same time reveals a critical and committed approach to architecture as a discipline. Even though these architects are not described as theoreticians, their approach to the subject is nevertheless intellectually well founded and several of them are known as writers on the subject.
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Anne Lacaton
www.lacatonvassal.com
Anne Lacaton (Saint Pardoux la Rivière 1955) graduated as an architect in 1980 from the Ecole d'architecture de Bordeaux. She was awarded a Master's in Urbanism in 1984. She has been a guest professor at the Ecole Polythecnique Fédérale in Lausanne 2003-2004, 2006).
Beate Hølmebakk
Beate Hølmebakk, born 1963 in Oslo, studied architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture (AHO) under Christian Norberg-Schulz, Sverre Fehn and Wenche Selmer, and as a visiting student at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union under John Hejduk.
Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates
www.sergisonbates.co.uk
Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates were born in 1964 at St. Asaph, Wales and Shoeburyness, Essex, respectively.
Together they established Sergison Bates architects in 1996. Several of their projects have received awards and the practice's work has been widely published in the international architectural press.
Jan Olav Jensen
www.jsa.no
Jan Olav Jensen qualified as an architect in Norway and is one of the partners in the practice of Jensen and Skodvin together with Børre Skodvin. The company was founded in 1995. Jan Olav Jensen has also held a professorship at the School of Architecture in Oslo since 2004.
Luis M. Mansilla
www.mansilla-tunon.com
Luis M. Mansilla (Madrid 1959), graduated from the E.T.S.A.M. on 1982, and obtained the Ph. degree at the E.T.S.A.M. on 1998. In 1984 he grants the boarding for the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome, and in 1987 obtains the Swedish Institute and European Council Scholarship, living in Stockholm at the Arkitekturmuseet for investigation.
Marcel Meili
www.meilipeter.ch
Marcel Meili, born 1953 in Küsnacht, studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, under Aldo Rossi und Dolf Schnebli, amongst others. He then worked as a research scientist at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the ETH, and as an architect. Since 1987 he has his own architecture firm in Zurich, together with Markus Peter, his partner of many years.
Roger Duffy
www.som.com
FAIA
Experimentation and collaboration are evident throughout Roger Duffy's award-winning projects worldwide, His designs for the Kuwait Police Academy were included in the Venice Biennale, "Next".
Sami Rintala
www.samirintala.com
Born1969 in Helsinki, Finland, Architect, Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Professor, AHO Oslo and Professor II, NTNU, Trondheim
Wilfried Wang
www.hoidnwang.de
Wilfried Wang is the O'Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. With Barbara Hoidn, he is founder of HOIDN WANG PARTNER, Berlin. He is a registered architect in England and Germany.
Yung Ho Chang
www.fcjz.com
Principal Architect, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu
Professor and Head, Architecture Department, MIT
Professor and Founding Head, Graduate Center of Architecture, Peking University
Originally from Beijing, Chang received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. He has been practicing in China since 1992 and established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) in 1993.
