CV08 Speakers
Haig Beck
Paul Berkemeier
Camilla Block
Chris Bosse
Anthony Burke
Matthew Chan
John Choi
Justine Clark
John Denton
Mark Diesendorf
Kenneth Frampton
Richard Francis-Jones
Jill Garner
Richard Green
Gevork Hartoonian
Michael Hensel
Thomas Herzog
Francine Houben
Christoph Ingenhoven
Joanne Joakovich
Peter John Cantrill
Chris Johnson
Tom Kovac
Richard Leplastrier
Wendy Lewin
Qingyun Ma
Andrew Mackenzie
Andrew Maynard
Peter Mould
Rachel Neeson
Lawrence Nield
Andrea Nield
Paul Pholeros
Howard Raggatt
Aaron Roberts
Xing Ruan
Brigitte Shim
Bridget Smyth
Defne Sunguroglu
Howard Sutcliffe
Jennifer Taylor
Hannah Tribe
Billie Tsien
Leon van Schaik AO
James Weirick
Tone Wheeler
Chris Wilkinson
Keynote speakers' biographies
Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Frampton was born in 1930 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He has worked as an architect and as an architectural historian and critic, and is now Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, New York. He has taught at a number of leading institutions in the field, including the Royal College of Art in London, the ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, EPFL in Lausanne and the Accademia di Architettura n Mendrisio.
He is the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary architecture, and has served on many international juries for the architectural awards and building commissions. His most recent writing includes Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), Le Corbusier in the World of Art series (2001) and a collection of essays entitled Labour, Work and Architecture (2005).
Michael Hensel
Grad Dipl Des AA Dipl. Ing. Architekt AKNW
Michael U. Hensel is an architect, writer, researcher, founding member and principal researcher in OCEAN and innovation fellow at the University of Technology in Sydney. He has built extensively and advised on urban design projects in the Nordic Countries. He is board member of BIONIS [the Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability] and editorial board member of AD Wiley, as well as JBE – Journal for Bionic Engineering, Elsevier Scientific Press. He is co-founder and co-director of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He taught, lectured, exhibited and published world-wide.
Currently he is preparing a peer-reviewed journal that will focus on research by design in collaboration with John Wiley & Sons and Blackwell Publishers. Recent publications include Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies [AD Wiley, London, 2004], Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design [AD Wiley, London, 2006], Morpho-Ecologies [AA Publications, London, 2006], and Versatility & Vicissitude [AD Wiley, London, 2008]. Forthcoming publications include Forschendes Entwerfen [Special Issue of Archplus, Aachen, Germany, 2008], and Heterogeneous Space Reader [Wiley Academy, London, 2009].
Thomas Herzog
Born 1941 in Munich, Thomas studied architecture at Technical University, Munich, obtaining a Diploma in 1965. His career has included the following positions and achievements; 1972 dissertation on ‘Pneumatic Structures’, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 1973 professor of Architecture at University of Kassel, 1986 Darmstadt, 1993-2006 Munich, guest professor in Lausanne (EPFL), Beijing (TSINGHUA), Philadelphia (PENN), Copenhagen, 2000-2006 Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Technical University Munich
In 1982 he commenced research and development work for the European Commission in Brussels, ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’,Federal German Foundation of the Environment (DBU), the BMBF, etc.
In 1971 Thomas founded his own practice. Since then has worked jointly with different partners (housing, administration, industrial and exhibition buildings, etc.). Since 1994 he has worked in partnership with Hanns Jörg Schrade.
Memberships:
- Akademie der Künste, Berlin
- Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich
- Russische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, St. Petersburg
- Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
- International Academy of Architecture at UNESCO, Sofia
- Faculty of Architecture at University of Ferrara/Italy, Doctorate ‘ad honorem’
Major Honours and Awards:
- Mies-van-der-Rohe-Prize
- Gold Medal of the Bund Deutscher Architekten
- Auguste-Perret-Prize, Award of ‘International Union of Architects’, UIA
- Den grønne Nål of the Federation of Danish Architects
- Grand médaille d’or , Académie d’Architecture
- Fritz-Schumacher-Prize for Architectue
He is author and editor of a series of books including monographs in different languages.
Francine Houben
MSc HonFRIBA (Sittard, 1955)
Director/Architect Mecanoo Architects, Delft
Francine Houben is founding partner and architect/director of Mecanoo architects. The practice is established for 25 years in Delft, The Netherlands. Francine Houben is one of Europe’s most active architects with many built works, publications, conferences and exhibitions. Her award winning projects illustrate the three fundamental elements of her architectural vision: Composition, Contrast and Complexity. The work of Francine Houben is extremely wide-ranging: houses, schools and complete residential areas, theatres, libraries and skyscrapers, parks, squares and highways, cities, polders and ‘Randstad’, hotels, museums and even a chapel. For her, architecture can never be a purely intellectual, conceptual and visual game. What counts in the end is the interweaving of form and emotion.
In 1999 Francine Houben has been instated as professor in Architecture and Aesthetics of Mobility at the University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands. She was professor at the Universitá della Svizzera Italiana, Accademia di architettura, in Mendrisio in Switzerland in 2000-2001. In 2001 she received an honorary fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. In 2002 she became director of the First International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2003, with the theme ‘Mobility, a room with a view’. From 2003-2005 Francine Houben was a member of the International Design Committee of London. From 2002-2006 has been City Architect of Almere. In 2007 Francine Houben was appointed visiting professor at Harvard University in the U.S.A. In the same year she received honorary fellowships to the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the American Institute of Architects.
Christoph Ingenhoven
1960 born in Düsseldorf, Christoph studied architecture between 1978-1984 at RWTH Technical University Aachen and the Academy of Arts Düsseldorf. In 1985 he founded his architectural studio Ingenhoven Architects. The design of Christoph Ingenhoven emphasises on sustainable and ecological principles in combination with a highly innovative, technical approach and a logical construction.
The focus is mainly on office buildings, company head-quarters, high-rises, refurbishment, infrastructure and transportation projects, such as airports and railway stations, urban planning, landscape design and master planning
The office won 30 first prizes in national and international competitions including for the RWE headquarters, one of the first ecological high-rises world-wide and for the Lufthansa Aviation Center in Frankfurt and received 52 awards as the RIBA Awards for the Burda Media Park and the Global Holcim Award Gold for the Main Station Stuttgart. Current works include high-rises in the center of Osaka, Singapore and Sydney, as well as a university campus in Dublin and the European Investment Bank in Luxemburg.
Qingyun Ma
Qingyun Ma is Dean of the USC School of Architecture and holder of the Della and Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture. Prior to beginning his Deanship he was principal of the firm MADA s.p.a.m.(strategy, planning, architecture, media), which is based in Shanghai, China. Ma has achieved tremendous global recognition through practice and teaching of architecture.
His practice, called “participative practice” by himself, has demonstrated the most effective strategy for engaging the “parallel universe” intensely manifested in transforming society and emerging economy. Recognising the power of public spectacles, his firm has designed and built a series of exhibition spaces including Xian Telemedia City, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Ullens Center for Arts, Renault Truckland, Ningpo Urban Museum and Chinese Pavilion for 2010 World Expo. He served on juries for a few very important projects in China, including the stadium for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
As a Dean, he actively promotes technological integration and design intelligence which examines and is examined against duality in global perspectives.
Brigitte Shim
Principal, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Toronto, Canada
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
University of Toronto
Brigitte Shim is a principal of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto, an architecture and design firm interested in the integration of furniture, architecture and landscape. Shim-Sutcliffe’s built architectural work has been honored with eight Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Governor General’s Medals and Awards for Architecture along with awards from the AIA, the American and Canadian Wood Councils, Architectural Record, and the I.D. Magazine Design Review awards. Brigitte Shim continues to serve on numerous international, national and local design juries advocating design excellence. Furniture designed by Shim-Sutcliffe has won awards and represented Canadian design at international exhibitions and their built architectural work has been published widely in the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia. Their un-built projects have received a P/A Award Citation and a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Brigitte Shim has lived most of her life in Toronto, Canada. She was trained at the University of Waterloo, Ontario with degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design at the University of Toronto. She has held numerous Visiting Chairs and Professorships at Yale University, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. She has lectured throughout the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Europe. She was recently a member of the 2007 Aga Khan Architecture Award master jury.
Billie Tsien
Billie Tsien was born in Ithaca, New York and received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale and her Masters in Architecture from UCLA. She has taught at Parsons, Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, and Penn. She is currently teaching with Tod Williams at Yale.
She has worked with Williams since 1977 and has been in partnership with him since 1986.
Tsien and Williams have received 8 National AIA Awards for their works including The Williams Natatorium at the Cranbrook School, The Long Island residence, the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California and American Folk Art Museum in New York City.
Current work includes a new Museum for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the Asia Society headquarters in Hong Kong, and an information technology campus in Mumbai. Work in New York includes Harmony Atrium – a new ticketing venue and public space for Lincoln Center, two residences, and two new skating rinks in Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
Tsien is the recipient with Williams of the Brunner Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Medal of Honor from the New York City AIA, and the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture and the President’s Medal from the Architectural League. She has been inducted as a fellow both into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Billie Tsien has an interest in work that bridges art and architecture. She is on the advisory panel for the Wexner Prize. She is on the board of the Public Art Fund, The Architectural League and the American Academy in Rome.
Chris Wilkinson
OBE Dip Arch RIBA FCSD
Chris Wilkinson is a principal and founder of Wilkinson Eyre Architects, one of the best-known architectural practices in the UK. The work of Wilkinson Eyre has been extensively published and has received over 100 design awards, including the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for an unprecedented two consecutive years in 2001 and 2002. The practice has exhibited in numerous exhibitions worldwide including the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Chris Wilkinson was awarded an OBE in the Millennium Honours List for his services to architecture, and was elected as a Royal Academician in 2006. He is a member of RIBA, a fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, and was selected as Commissioner to English Heritage in 2007. Chris has strong connections overseas, and received an Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects in 2007. He was visiting professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2003-2004, and has participated in a number of lecture tours, conferences and jury panels in Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. www.wilkinsoneyre.com
