David Chipperfield, architect for the proposed Saint Louis Art Museum expansion, and Nigel Tonks, who is leading building services engineering for the project, both will speak as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Architecture Lecture Series.
Tonks will speak on “Global Warming: A Driving Force in Architectural Expression?” at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Science Building, Room 300.
Chipperfield will deliver the Fumihiko Maki lecture, titled “Normal/Special,” at 6 p.m. Oct. 17 in Whitaker Hall Auditorium.
Tonks is a director of Ove Arup & Partners, a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants that provides professional services to clients around the world. Tonks, who leads a multidisciplinary building engineering group based in London, has nearly 20 years experience in dealing with low-energy and sustainable design.
In addition to working with Chipperfield, his team is collaborating with architects Richard Rogers Partnership, Foster and Partners and others on cultural and commercial projects in both the United States and Europe.
In conjunction with his lecture, Tonks will conduct a weekend-long, one-credit course as part of the Architecture school’s ongoing series “Masterclasses in Environmental Design.”
Chipperfield has won some of Europe’s most prestigious commissions, including restoration of the Neues Museum in Berlin; the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany; and the redesign of Venice’s historic cemetery island, San Michele. His U.S. projects include the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; the Anchorage Museum of History and Art; and the Des Moines Central Library.
Chipperfield’s practice, which he established in 1984, has won more than 20 national and international competitions and many international awards and citations for design excellence. In 1999, he received the Tessenow Gold Medal and in 2004 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to architecture.
Additional talks in the series will take place at 7 p.m. in Whitaker Auditorium unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. For more information, call 935-9300 or go online to arch.wustl.edu.
Subsequent Architecture Lecture Series speakers are listed below.
• Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome, will deliver the 2006 Eugene Mackey Lecture, “A Brief History of the American Academy in Rome Through the Lens of Historic Preservation” Oct. 16 in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Science Building, Room 300.
• Ann Hamilton, sculptor at Ohio State University, will speak on “The Practice of Work: From Silence to Speech,” sponsored by the Sam Fox School, at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in Brown Hall, Room 100.
• Alex Wall, professor of urban design at the Institute for Local, Regional and City Planning at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, will speak Oct. 30 in the Laboratory Science Building, Room 300.
• Robert Rogers and Jonathan Marvel of Rogers Marvel Architects in New York, will give a lecture, co-sponsored by the American Institute of Architects St. Louis Chapter Scholarship Fund, Nov. 6 in Brown Hall, Room 118.
• Douglas Garofalo, FAIA, of Garofalo Architects Inc. in Chicago, will deliver the 2006 Cannon Design Lecture for Excellence in Architecture & Engineering Nov. 8.
• Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor in chief, Architectural Record, and the 2006 Abend Family Visiting Critic, will discuss”Where in the World is Architecture?” Nov. 13.
• Steve Luoni, the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture at WUSTL, will speak on “Building Recombinant Ecologies” Nov. 20.
• Patrick Condon, ASLA, professor of landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, will discuss “Laying the Foundations for Sustainable 22nd-century Communities: The Importance of Design, the Necessity for Designers” Nov. 27. His talk is sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects.
• Eva Prats of Flores/Prats Architects, Barcelona, will speak Dec. 4.
• Winy Maas, principal, MVRDV Architects in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, will speak on “KM3 and After” Dec. 11. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Sam Fox School.
The Nov. 16 lecture will be announced at a later date.