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Bjarke Ingels will give a lecture at Royal Academy of Arts-July 13,2015

United Kingdom Architecture News - May 29, 2015 - 09:28   9424 views

Bjarke Ingels will give a lecture at Royal Academy of Arts-July 13,2015

Bjarke Ingels; photography © Joachim Ladefoged

Monday 13 July 2015

?6.45 — 8pm / Main Galleries, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts invited BIG's founding partner, Bjarke Ingels to give a lecture on July 13,2015 at Royal Academy of Arts  in the scope of Royal Academy's summer exhibition, which focuses on a snapshot of contemporary art. Bjarke Ingels who is the youngest architect to give a lecture at the annual conferences of Royal Academy of Arts up to now.

The 25th Annual Architecture Lecture will focus on Bjarke Ingels' new design approaches,potentials,innovative philosophy and the dialectic relationship between architecture and the technology which has been the most driven-entity for Bjarke Ingels architecture in contemporary world. In this lecture, Bjarke's digital communication networks in design processes will be evaluated as the most evolving part of the talk since he has used 21st Century design tools very effectively and as a communication method.

Bjarke Ingels will give a lecture at Royal Academy of Arts-July 13,2015

Danish Maritime Museum; Photograph © Iwan Baan

Up to now, various prestigious names took part in Royal Academy of Arts' annual confererences like Hans Hollein,Norman Foster,Renzo Piano,Frank Gehry,Rem Koolhaas,Alvaro Siza,Peter Zumthor and Elizabeth Diller of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro with last year speaker Rafael Moneo.Bjarke Ingels' technology-driven special projects will also tackle his design philosophy in a more questionable way by combining digital with materials realms as an innovative idea.For Bjarke's projects, the lecture special focus will be the Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant in Copenhagen,Google in California (with Thomas Heatherwick) ,West 57 in New York,West 57 in New York including built works Copenhagen’s Mountain Dwellings (2008), the Danish pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, and the Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingør (2013).

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