“What Is Green Architecture” – Lecture and Dialog May 19, 2008 7pm Goethe-Institut New York 1014 Fifth Avenue @ 83rd Street, New York Free admission. No reservations required. Further information on the speakers: Christoph Ingenhoven is one of the world’s leading architects in sustainable and ecological design. He founded his Düsseldorf-based practice, Ingenhoven Architects, in 1985. His office has won numerous prizes in international competitions. Projects focus on office buildings, company headquarters, high-rises, department stores, industrial buildings, refurbishment, infrastructure and transportation projects, such as airports and railway stations, urban planning, landscape design and master-planning. Ingenhoven’s design for the new Main Station in Stuttgart, to be built from 2010 - 2016, was awarded the Europe Holcim Award Silver 2005 and the Global Holcim Award Gold 2006, the highest endowed architectural awards, for its sustainable construction. As a zero-energy station‚ it requires no heating, cooling or mechanical ventilation. The architect explains: “When we started … at the age of 25…it was and it is still our aim to speak a constructive, sophisticated, technically interesting, energy efficient, soft, transparent, ecologically orientated, human, smooth, green architectural language. On a small blue planet with limited resources, there cannot be another answer. So we are still searching day by day for sensible, inspired solutions that make life more easy, beautiful and healthy.” Series curator and moderator Dr. Andres Lepik studied art history and german literature in Munich and Augsburg, earning his Ph.D. in Rome on Architectural Models in the Renaissance. He has curated noted architecture exhibitions in the U.S, Europe and around the world, including solo shows highlighting the works of Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas and Oswald Mathias Ungers. Currently he is the curator in the Architecture & Design Department of the MoMA, as well as author of numerous articles, reviews and books.