Guggenheim series of public lectures begins
19.09.2014
Aalto University and the Guggenheim Foundation's architectural events will begin with a series of public lectures on 24 September and 30 October.
The first people giving lectures will be Joel Sanders from Yale University (24 Sept) and Juan Herreros from the jury of the Guggenheim architectural competition (30 Oct).
Joel Sanders is an architect working in New York and also an adjunct professor at Yale School of Architecture. He has also taught architecture at Princeton University and at Parsons New School of Design. Mr Sanders will be teaching a course together with Yale architectural students during which both the Yale students and the Aalto University students will design a museum of the future for Helsinki. Mr Sanders and his students will be visiting Helsinki from 20 to 27 September.
Juan Herreros is an architect and professor at both the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture of Columbia University in New York. He leads his own 20-strong architectural firm in Madrid. The firm's range of current projects includes several international public buildings.
The public lectures are part of a supplementary programme organised jointly by Aalto University and the Guggenheim Foundation which focuses on museum architecture of the future. The talks will consider the architectural form required for this new kind of museum, considering different viewpoints such as user expectations and also social, technological, and artistic developments. The lectures are also part of the architecture students' Museum of the Future course, during which the students design a new kind of museum building for Helsinki.
All the lectures are free and open to the public, and no prior registration is required. The location for the lectures will be the renovated, Alvar Aalto-designed building of the Aalto University Department of Architecture. The lecture hall can fit a maximum of 100 people.
Joel Sanders, 24 September, 17-18.30 at Aalto University. Address:Otakaari 1 X, lecture hall A1, Otaniemi, Espoo.
http://architecture.yale.edu/faculty/joel-sanders
Juan Herreros 30.10. 18-19 at Aalto University. Address:Otakaari 1 X, lecture hall A1, Otaniemi, Espoo.
https://designguggenheimhelsinki.org/en/jury/profile/juan-herreros