Lighting designer Paul A. Zaferiou will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring Architecture Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22.
Zaferiou, a 1975 alumnus of Washington University, will present the 2007 Givens Alumni Lecture, entitled “Lighting Design as Exploration.” Zaferiou is president and principal of Lam Partners Inc., a lighting consulting firm based in Boston. Over the years 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, CA.; the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center; and the Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Center.
In St. Louis, Zaferiou has worked on two buildings for the Washington University School of Medicine: Spencer T. Olin Hall and the Pediatrics Biomedical Research Building. Other area projects include the Saint Louis Science Center’s IMAX Theatre; Mercantile Bank Plaza; the Stix Early Childhood Center; and the Pere Marquette Gallery at Saint Louis University’s DuBourg Library.
The Architecture Lecture Series continues at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29, with Winy Maas, a principal of MVRDV, the Office of Architecture and Urbanism, in Rotterdam.
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 and 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 Elderly People and the Silodam Housing complex, both in Amsterdam; the Matsudai Cultural Centre in Japan; the Dutch pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover; and headquarters for VPRO, a public broadcasting company, in Hilversum.
MVRDV’s work has been featured in several monographs, including Farmax: Excursions on Density (1998), MVRDV at VPRO (1998), MetaCity/Datatown (1999), Costa Iberica: Upbeat to the Leisure City (1999) and MVRDV: Reads (2003). In 2003 Maas was a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture and in 2004 won the Amsterdam Art Prize for his project Hagen Island in The Hague. 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. The Architecture Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. The Laboratory Sciences Building is located on Throop Drive, just south of Forest Park Parkway. For more information, call (314) 935-9300 or visit www.arch.wustl.edu.
Subsequent lectures take place at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise notes. Speakers will include:
Feb 19.
Bruce Lindsey
Dean
College of Architecture/Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
“Collective Practice”
March 5
John Hoal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and co-director, Undergraduate Program
College of Architecture/Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
5:30 p.m. April 13
Rick Lowe
Artist
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
“Toward Social Sculpture”
April 23
Sean Godsell
Architect
Sean Godsell Architects
Melbourne, Australia
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WHO: Lighting designer Paul A. Zaferiou WHAT: “Lighting Design as Exploration,” 2007 Givens Alumni Lecture WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22. WHERE: Arts & Sciences Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300, located on Throop Drive, just south of Forest Park Parkway. COST: Free and open to the public SPONSOR: Architecture Lecture Series, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University INFORMATION: (314) 935-6200 |