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International Lecture Series: MOS Architects
Photo: Jaime Navarro
Dato
27.04.2023
Tidspunkt
16.00 - 17.30
Adresse
Royal Danish Academy
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 51
Copenhagen K
Danmark
Pris
Gratis adgang
Denne forelæsning 'Buildings, Books and Other Things' af Hilary Sample og Michael Meredith, grundlæggerne af MOS Architects i New York, er en del af forelæsningsrækken 'International Lecture Series', hvor Det Kongelige Akademi - Arkitektur inviterer store internationale navne indenfor til en eftermiddag med fokus på væsentlige internationale temaer i arkitekturen. Temaet for denne forelæsning er 'The Art in Architecture'.
The lecture will present and insight to the practice´s approach through a presentation of their multifaceted work - from houses, educational spaces and cultural institutions to exhibitions, installations, furniture, and objects; and also their engagement with making books, speculative software and films.
We suffer and benefit from personal contradictions. Architects who want to be artists, writers who want to be architects, furniture that wants to be buildings, video games that want to be paintings, buildings that want to be movies, earnestly not earnest, deliberately not deliberate, seriously not serious. We make things that are at once something and something else. Familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, boring and interesting, naive and knowing, stable and unstable, material and immaterial, prosaic and poetic. Simple things are sometimes the most complex. We look again and again, hoping to understand them. The longer you look, the stranger and more wonderful things become.
Extract from ‘Things Other Than Buildings’
About
Michael Meredith is Professor and Associate Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture. Hilary Sample holds the inaugural IDC Professorship in Housing Design at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Recent built projects include the Petite École in France, a public pavilion for teaching design to children (2019); Laboratorio de Vivienda in Mexico, a housing-focused education center (2018); Krabbesholm School in Denmark, a complex of four art studios (2012); and a photographer’s studio (2020). A collective affordable housing residence in Washington, D.C. is scheduled for completion in 2022.
The work of MOS is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University’s Frances Loeb Library, and Columbia University’s Butler Library.