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Dorte Mandrup: "Move/Play/Learn" (May 8)

Guest lecture by the Danish architect Dorte Mandrup, subtitled "buildings for children and youth... education from 0 – 30". The lecture is held in English and will be accompanied by the student-run Thurday's bar. Welcome!

Time: Thu 2014-05-08 18.00

Location: KTH Arkitekturskolan, Östermalmsgatan 26, Stockholm

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Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter's adaptation of Munkegaard public elementary school, originally designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1957.

DORTE MANDRUP
As founder and owner of  Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter  and as a former employee of Henning Larsen, Dorte Mandrup has 20 years of professional experience in arcihtecture. Her ability to cut to the core of a problem is recognized and used in international jury contexts, as a lecturer and as professor – she has served as an Associate Professor with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and was recently invited as  Distinguished Visiting Professor  at the Univerity of Washington Department of Architecture. Among other professional appointments, she is a board member at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and appointed member of  The Historic Buildings Council  under the Act of the Danish Ministry of Culture, on Building Preservation and conservation of buildings and urban environments.

Dorte Mandrup has been awarded numerous national and international awards. Among them the Bauwelt Prize, Architectural Review's Award for Emerging Architecture's Honourable Mentions – and the prestigious C.F. Hansen medal, awarded once a year by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for outstanding contributions to architecture.  

The lecture is held in English and is open to the public, and will be accompanied by the student-run Thurday's bar in the courtyard. 

Hosted by KTH School of Architecture .