Frank Harmon:
Native Places 

PRESENTED BY SPACE.CITY & AIA SEATTLE

Frank Harmon, FAIA has designed sustainable modern buildings across the Southeast for 30 years. His work engages pressing contemporary issues such as place-less-ness, sustainability and restoring cities and nature.

His buildings recall the materials of their region, from using hurricane-felled cypress and rock from local quarries to connect the structure to its landscape. The airy breezeways, outdoor living spaces, deep overhangs, and wide lawns embody the romanticism of the South while maintaining a distinguished modernism.

A graduate of the Architectural Association in London, he is a Professor-in-Practice at the NC State University College of Design, he has taught at the Architectural Association, and he has been a visiting critic at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and the Rural Studio at Auburn University.

As a noted writer and illustrator, his recent project, Native Places, uses hand-drawn sketches and mini-essays to examine the relationship between nature and built structures. He is a primary contributor to Activate 14, an AIANC initiative to educate the public on the benefits of good design and sustainability through a series of summer events and design competitions.

Harmon’s work has been recognized for strong design by student, peers, and clients alike. In 2013, he received the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal from the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANC), the highest honor bestowed upon a North Carolina architect. He holds numerous awards recognizing his contributions to design and sustainability. His firm, Frank Harmon Architect, has been named to Architect magazine’s “Top 50″ list three times.

Maïmouna Guerresi:
In Conversation

 
PRESENTED BY MARIANE IBRAHIM GALLERY & SPACE.CITY

Maïmouna Guerresi is a photographer, sculptor, and video installation artist. She lives between Italy and Senegal. The universe of Maïmouna is the result as much of the chemistry between cultural and religious influences, as the fusion of different artistic languages. Linked both to Italy and Senegal to Western culture as well as Sufi philosophy, her works reflect a dual culture and a dual belonging and, above all, the search for an equilibrium between the two worlds. Maïmouna Guerresi was invited to participate in the Italian pavilion Venice Biennale in 1982- 1986-2010 as well as Documenta K18(1987) in Kassel, Germany. In 1991 Maïmouna travelled to various Muslim countries in Africa and converted to Islam while in Senegal. Her work has been exhibited and collected all over the world.

For additional information about Maïmouna Guerresi’s work and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery  click here

David Lewis:
Architecture for Social Intensification 

Presented by Space.City

Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects) is a design intensive architecture firm founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. LTL Architects engages a diverse range of work, from large scale academic and cultural buildings to interiors and speculative research projects. LTL Architects realizes inventive solutions that turn the very constraints of each project into the design trajectory, exploring opportunistic overlaps between space, program, form, budget and materials.

LTL Architects has completed academic, institutional, residential and hospitality projects throughout the United States.  LTL received a 2007 National Design Award, multiple AIA design awards and have been extensively published. LTL was featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale and their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The principals are co-authors of the monographs, Intensities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013), Opportunistic Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) and Situation Normal....Pamphlet Architecture #21 (Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).

LTL Architects recently completed work on the 70,000 square feet renovation for the Steinhardt School at NYU, the Living and Learning Center for Gallaudet University in Washington, DC and the Administrative Campus Center for the Claremont University Consortium in California. Currently, LTL Architects along with Perkins+Will and Thornton-Tomasetti, are undertaking the 160,000 square feet renovation of Upson Hall and the masterplan of the Engineering Quadrangle at Cornell University. Notable past projects include Arthouse at the Jones Center, Bornhuetter Hall at the College of Wooster, the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, Fluff Bakery, and Xing Restaurant (recipient of the 2007 James Beard Award for restaurant design.) LTL Architects’ principals are on the faculty at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Parsons The New School for Design

Kai Bergman of BIG: 
In Conversation

Presented by Space.City

A partner with BIG, Kai-Uwe Bergmann brings his expertise to proposals around the globe; currently the office is working in over fifteen different countries throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States. Registered as an architect in the USA, UK and Denmark, Kai-Uwe was Project Manager upon Central Asia’s first Carbon Neutral Master Plan – Zira Island in Baku, Azerbaijan. Kai-Uwe also sits on numerous international juries and lectures on the work of BIG worldwide.

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group operates within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG has created a reputation for projects that are programmatically and technically innovative while cost and resource conscious. Current and recent work includes 8 House in Copenhagen (2010), the Danish Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo (2010), West 57th Tower in New York City, and Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah.

Tatiana Bilbao:
Unlimited means

Presented by Space.City

Tatiana Bilbao was born in 1972 in the Federal District, Mexico, within
a family of architects: one of his grandfathers was a notable architect in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain . His parents are physico and founders of Bilbao College, in the Federal District. He studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, from which he graduated in 1996. In 1998 he won honorable mention for careers and further recognition for the best thesis of the year.

In 1998 he served as Advisor in the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing of the Federal District. In 2000, co-founded the company Laboratory SC Mexico City, along with architect Fernando Romero. Establishing one of the first practices of contemporary architecture in the country. In addition to various architectural projects, LCM was a laboratory of ideas trying to promote knowledge of contemporary culture in general organizing talks, lectures, debates and exhibitions of architecture and related practices, art, music, theater.

In 2004, he founded Tatiana Tatiana Bilbao SC with projects in China, Europe and Mexico. The first project was the office room Exhibitions Hall in Jinhua, led the project and coordinated by the Chinese artist and architect Ai Wei Wei, who met a team of young architects from different countries to develop a fleet of large area divided into pavilions and located on the coast of Yiwu River near Shanghai. Bilbao was commissioned to design the Exhibition Hall (also known as “Exhibit Space”).

Alejandro Echeverri:
Unlimited Means 

Presented by Space.City
 

Alejandro Echeverri is an internationally acclaimed architect and planner from Medellín, Colombia, Colombia and Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies at EAFIT University. In addition, as the City’s Director of Urban Projects, Echeverri has played crucial role in the rejuvenation of Medellín. With the support and partnership of the city’s mayor, Sergio Fajardo, Echeverri established public works programs and initiated building a series of visually striking libraries, schools, parks, and community centers in Medellín’s most impoverished areas. The works program even included an elevated gondola that connects some of Medellín’s poorest and most isolated neighborhoods to the rest of the city. Because of these efforts and the his belief in the power of design, Medellín’s crime rate has dropped significantly. Medellín is now considered a blueprint for the future of other cities in the developing world.

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