Wilfried Wang: "reality and real architecture" (lunch lecture, Feb 6)
Open lunch lecture with the architect and architecture theorist Wilfried Wang.
Time: Fri 2015-02-06 12.00 - 13.00
Location: Lecture room A5, KTH Arkitekturskolan, Östermalmsgatan 26
Edward Burtynsky: Navajo Reservation and Suburb, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2011.
WILFRIED WANG
is the
O'Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture
at the University of Texas at Austin. With Barbara Hoidn, he is founder of H
OIDN WANG PARTNER
, Berlin.
He is a registered architect in Berlin. Born in Hamburg, Wang studied architecture at the Bartlett School, University College London. From 1989 to 1995 he was in partnership with John Southall. Together with Nadir Tharani, he was founding co-editor of 9H Magazine (1979-1995), with Richard Burdett, he was co-director of the 9H Gallery (1985-1990), and director of the German Architecture Museum (1995-2000).
He taught at the Polytechnic of North London, University College London, the ETH Zurich, the Staedelschule, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and at the University of Navarra. Wang is the author of various essays and monographs on the architecture of the 20th-century.