Lighting designer Paul A. Zaferiou will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts spring Architecture Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 22.
Zaferiou (’75) will present the 2007 Givens Alumni Lecture, titled “Lighting Design as Exploration.” Zaferiou is president and principal of Lam Partners Inc., a lighting consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass. He has worked on a wide range of educational, institutional and transportation projects, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; The Getty Villa in Malibu, Calif.; the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center; and the Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Center.
In St. Louis, Zaferiou worked on two buildings for the School of Medicine: the Spencer T. Olin Residence Hall and the Pediatrics Biomedical Research Building. Other area projects include the Saint Louis Science Center’s IMAX Theater, Mercantile Bank Plaza, the Stix Early Childhood Center and the Pere Marquette Gallery at Saint Louis University’s DuBourg Library.
The lecture series continues at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29 with Winy Maas, a principal of MVRDV in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Maas co-founded MVRDV in 1991 with partners Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. (The firm’s name is an acronym for Maas-van Rijs-de Vries.) Today MVRDV is internationally known both for innovative architecture and for experimental research projects relating to population density and open-space issues. Major works include the dramatically cantilevered WOZOCO apartments for seniors and the Silodam housing complex, both in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the Matsudai Cultural Centre in Japan; the Dutch pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany; and headquarters for VPRO, a public broadcasting company in Hilversum, the Netherlands.
In 2003, Maas was a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture, and in 2004, he won the Amsterdam Art Prize. In 2005, MVRDV received the inaugural Marcus Prize for emerging architects.
Both talks are free and open to the public and take place in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300. For more information, call 935-9300 or visit www.arch.wustl.edu.
Other speakers in the series include:
Feb. 19: Bruce Lindsey, dean, College of Architecture/Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, on “Collective Practice”
March 5: John Hoal, Ph.D., associate professor and co-director of the architecture undergraduate program
April 13: Rick Lowe, artist, Project Row Houses, Houston, on “Toward Social Sculpture”
April 23: Sean Godsell, architect, Sean Godsell Architects, Melbourne, Australia.