A number of high -ranking meetings begin to seek the expression of poetics in the architecture. The first lecture will take place on April 7, 2025 with Kengo Kuma.
Columbia University quits the Emilio Ambasz annual lecture on architecture as poemsAn innovative lecture series that is made possible by the generosity of the world -famous architect and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz. Every year, Columbia will organize important practitioners and thinkers in the area of architecture from all over the world to give a lecture in which architecture enriches architecture in a unique way communities and daily life.
Famous Japanese architect Kenogo and Will give the first lecture on April 7, 2025.
“We are all so pleased to present this lecture series, which is made possible by the name of the world -famous architect/designer/curator/theoretician and the name is made possible Emilio Ambasz“Said Barry Bergdoll, the Meyer Schapiro professor of art history and archeology.”Ambasz has a poetic and emotional architectural approach. The series aims to further develop one of its lifelong obligations, namely that the discipline is penetrated with the poetics in addition to all technical and social requirements at the heart of the architect. “”
Argentine born AmbaseAn architect and award -winning industrial designer was referred to by others as “father of green architecture”, since he incorporates his trademark in his structures in or more often in his structures.
Accordingly AmbaseAn architecture project is a number of rituals that, like in fables, give depth and universal feelings and emotions shape and shape. “I consider architecture to be looking for a spiritual apartment“” He confirms. “An architect can be the guard of the cities created by humans or the wizard that creates eternal forms. The context in which the architect is called to operate can change, but the task remains the same: to give pragmatics poetic form. If an architectural work does not move the heart” Ambase argues: “It's just another building. “”
This striving to express the poetic in architecture is examined by large practitioners in the Ambasz annual lecture seriesOrganized by Columbia's Department of Art History and Archeology. The department is suitable for the depth of this exploration and the outstanding legacy of performance in Ambasz in view of their rich history in terms of studying architecture, including the great architectural historian, Rudolph Wittkower, who has acted as department head for more than 14 years, and the well -known Howard Hibard and Robert Branner, who worked on the experts of Columbia.
“It is fitting that Columbia's Department of Art History and Archaeology will be located in this unique lecture series“Said Amy Hungerford, Executive Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty.”The department's curriculum is interdisciplinary and encourages the students to research all areas of human experiences that inspire, disturb or strain the imagination, of which architecture is certainly one. “”
Columbia University is pleased to work with Emilio Ambasz to bring this lecture series to life.
In the extraordinary list of honors, recognitions and awards, Ambasz recently received an honorary degree in civil engineering and architecture from the University of Bologna in 2021 as a “Pioneer” the green architecture.
The previous year he won his fourth Compasso d'Oro for his extraordinary career “As a pioneer of the relationship between buildings and nature.”
Italian National Career Award in/Architecture 2023 (for the first time in its history, the award was awarded to a non-titleian); Honorary completion 'Aurelio Peccei' in a systemic design at the Polytechnic University of Turin (IT).
In 2025, the 50th anniversary of one of its internationally known works, the Casa de Retiro -Spiritual (Sevilla, Spain), a breathtaking and fantastic evocation of the original concept of the home is celebrated, an optical mirage among the most noticeable in the world.
Emilio Ambasz was invited to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which was curated by Carlo Ratti (details come).
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