Guggenheim jury members Juan Herreros and Mark Whigley to give open lectures
09.10.2014
Aalto University and the Guggenheim Foundation`s supplementary programme continues with the open lectures to be given by the jury members Juan Herreros and Mark Wigley.
Mark Wigley is a professor and a former dean of the Graduate School of Architecture of Columbia University in New York. He is an accomplished scholar and design teacher who has served as curator for widely attended exhibitions in focal museums of art and architecture. Wigley is the jury chair of the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition.
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 lecture of Juan Herreros has been moved from 30 October to 3 November.
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.
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.
Mark Wigley, 30 October, 18-19 at Aalto University. Address: Otakaari 1 X, lecture hall A1, Otaniemi, Espoo.
https://designguggenheimhelsinki.org/en/jury/profile/mark-wigley
Juan Herreros, 3 November, 14-15 at Aalto University. Address:Otakaari 1 X, lecture hall A1, Otaniemi, Espoo.
https://designguggenheimhelsinki.org/en/jury/profile/juan-herreros