Tuesday, January 12 6:30pm
Wyly Auditorium

Craig Dykers co-founder of the design firm Snohetta, located in Oslo, Norway, wil present a lecture on the work of his firm

Snohetta
Established in 1989 in Oslo, Norway, Snøhetta established its New York office in 2004 -- the same year it was awarded the commission for the National September 11th Memorial Museum and Pavilion at the World Trade Centre. Its international practice emphasizes site-specific and environmentally responsible design solutions that “enhance...qualities of place and create diverse and rich architectural experiences.” Recent and current work includes the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum, Norway; Norwegian Embassy, Berlin; Norwegian National Opera, Oslo; and the Wolfe Centre for the Arts, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. The office has won numerous awards, recently earning the prestigious Mies van der Rohe award for Norwegian National Opera, and winning the coveted Aga Khan award in 2004. In 2002, the firm completed the New Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the result of winning an UNESCO-organized design competition which accepted over 1400 international entries.

According to the firm’s website, “Architecture cannot be contained simply by rules of order, instead it must accommodate the restless mind of human society. It must accept association developed by larger numbers of characters beyond the discipline of the architect.”

A monograph of the firm, entitled Snøhetta Works, was published in 2009 by Lars Müller Publishers.

This lecture is also available for CEUs.

http://www.snoarc.no/#/main/