“What Is Green Architecture” is exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on contemporary life as well as implications for the future. Conversations, lectures and events will be attended this year by further notable architects, including
Matthias Schuler of Transsolar on April 1,
Christoph Ingenhoven of Ingenhoven Architekten, Düsseldorf on May 19, and Matthias Sauerbruch of sauerbruch hutton architekten on June 16.
“What Is Green Architecture” – Lecture and Dialog
February 7, 2008
7pmGoethe-Institut New York
1014 Fifth Avenue @ 83rd Street
New York
Free admission. No reservations required.
Further information on the first conversation:
First speaker Jürgen Mayer H. focuses on works at the intersection of architecture, communication and new technology. From urban planning schemes and buildings to installation work and objects with new materials, the relationship between the human body, technology and nature form the background for a new production of space. Jürgen Mayer H. is founder and principal of this crossdisciplinary studio. He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and at Princeton University. His work was published and exhibited worldwide and is part of international collections like the MoMA in New York and the SF MoMA. Prizes include the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 2003. Further, Mayer H. has taught at Princeton, Berlin, Harvard and Columbia Universities.
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.
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