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September 9 - October 6, 2005, 5:45 p.m.
Earth Sciences Building, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Room 1050, at the University of Toronto
Attendance to these lectures is by invitation only.
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This four-part series of public lectures is intended to showcase the work of world renowned architects. The speakers will present their portfolio of work, focusing on recent projects as well as those still on the drawing board.
The series will be opened by Luis Monreal, the General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, who will describe the architectural endeavours of the Trust, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Historic Cities Programme, and ArchNet. In addition, this year’s lecture series will feature three world renowned architects, each of whom have participated as members of the Master Jury for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The speakers are Charles Correa (Charles Correa Associates), Fumihiko Maki (Maki & Associates), and Farshid Moussavi (Foreign Office Architects).
The 2005 AKTC Architecture Lecture Series will be held at the Earth Sciences Building, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Room 1050, at the University of Toronto, on Thursday at 5.45 p.m., from September 8th through to October 6th.
The schedule for the 2005 Aga Khan Trust for Culture Architecture Lecture Series is as follows:
Sept. 8, 5.45 p.m. Luis Monreal, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland;
Sept. 15, 5.45 p.m. Charles Correa, Charles Correa Associates, Mumbai, India;
Sept. 22, 5.45 p.m. Fumihiko Maki, Maki & Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Oct. 6, 5.45 p.m. Farshid Moussavi, Foreign Office Architects, London, United Kingdom
SEAT RESERVATION
Attendance to these lectures is by invitation only. OAA members that wish to request tickets will find details in the News for Members article (login). RSVP by August 26, 2005.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Charles Correa is an Indian architect, planner, activist, and theoretician who studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan. He has taught and lectured at many universities, both in India and abroad, including MIT, Harvard University, the University of London, and Cambridge University, where he was the Nehru Professor. Mr. Correa is known for the wide range of his architectural work in India and on urbanization and low-cost shelter in the Third World, which he articulated in his 1985 publication, The New Landscape. The built projects of Charles Correa Associates include the award-winning Vidhan Bhavan in Bhopal, the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, the British Council in Delhi, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Recent commissions include the Neuroscience Centre at MIT, the Ismaili Centre in Toronto, and the Tata Technologies Campus in Pune, India. His architectural designs have been internationally acclaimed and he has received numerous awards including the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal in 1984, the Indian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1987, the International Union of Architects Gold Medal in 1990, and the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association in 1994. Professor Correa was a member of the 1980, 1983, and 1986 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Steering Committees, and of the 1989 Award Master Jury. He was presented an Aga Khan Award for Architecture during the 1998 award cycle.
Fuhimiko Maki was born in Tokyo in 1928. He studied at the University of Tokyo, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in New York and for Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge, after which he spent several years teaching and working independently. Professor Maki returned to Japan in 1960 and helped establish the Metabolism Group. In 1965 he established Maki and Associates in Tokyo. Professor Maki has taught at several US and European universities as a visiting professor, and was a professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo from 1979 to 1989. The built projects of Maki and Associates include the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, the TEPIA Science Pavilion in Tokyo, and the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco. Major recent commissions include the Sam Fox Arts Centre at Washington University in St. Louis, the Media Arts & Science Building at MIT, the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa, and the UN Consolidation Building in New York. Professor Maki has also been commissioned to design the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Professor Maki’s work has received international acclaim and he has won several prestigious awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993, the International Union of Architects Gold Medal, the Praemium Imperiale from The Japan Art Association, and the Grand Prize of the Japan Institute of Architecture. Professor Maki served on the 1983 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Steering Committee.
Luis Monreal is the former Acting Director of the Mares Museum, Barcelona, was a Professor of Museology at Barcelona University, and is presently General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. He is a conservation specialist and a Professor of Art History. He has held senior positions at several institutions, including Secretary General of the International Council of Museums (1974-1985) at UNESCO, and Director of the Getty Conservation Institute (1985-1990), and was a member of various archaeological missions in Nubia, Sudan, Egypt and Morocco. He is also the author of numerous works on art and archaeology, particularly notable is a seven volume book “La Peinture dans les Grand Musées” (published 1974-1981, French Spanish and Dutch editions), which reviews the painting collections of major museums in Europe and North America. As Director General of La Caixa Foundation he developed one of the largest programmes of art exhibitions in Europe and established several Science Museums and exhibitions centers in Spain. He serves on many commissions and committees, including the boards of the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia and of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Spain. He is one of the world's foremost cultural specialists, patrons and organizers.
Farshid Moussavi is an architect of Iranian origin, trained at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, University College London, the Bartlett School of Architecture, and Dundee University. She worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam prior to establishing Foreign Office Architects (with Alejandro Zaera Polo) in London in 1992. Professor Moussavi is currently the head of Institute of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has been teaching there since 2002; previously, she taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (1993-2000), and has been visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, Columbia University in New York, Princeton University, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, and the Hoger Architecture Institute in Belgium. The built projects of Foreign Office Architects (FOA) include a new Ferry Terminal in Yokohama, Japan, a new park with outdoor auditoriums in Barcelona, Spanish Pavilion in the Aichi International Expo in Japan, the Bluemoon Hotel in Groningen, Germany, and a Police Headquarters in La Villajoyosa, Spain. FOA has a number of important commissions under construction in Spain, including, an auditorium building in Torrevieja, a Publishing Headquarters in Korea, a Technology Transfer Centre and Social Housing. The practice is also working on a number of recent major commissions, including large-scale office developments in the UK, Spain and the Netherlands, a new Music Centre for the BBC in London and a College of Art and Design in London. FOA was one of the practices to design the winning Master Plan design for the Lower Lee Valley and the London Olympics and to be short-listed for the design of the new World Trade Center in New York, and a new Pompidou Centre in France. Foreign Office Architects represented Britain at the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002. Farshid served as the Chairperson on the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Master Jury.
About the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Aga Khan Development Network
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture focuses on the physical, social, cultural and economic revitalisation of communities in the Muslim world. It includes the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Historic Cities Support Programme, the Music Initiative in Central Asia, the Humanities Project, the on-line resource ArchNet, the Museum Projects and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For more information log on to www.akdn.org/agency/aktc.html
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is a part of the Aga Khan Development Network, a group of private, non-denominational development agencies whose mandates range from the fields of health and education to architecture, culture, rural development and the promotion of private-sector enterprise. Its agencies and institutions seek to empower communities and individuals, often in disadvantaged circumstances, to improve living conditions and opportunities in specific regions of Africa and Asia. Active in over 30 countries, the Network's underlying impulse is the ethic of compassion for the vulnerable in society and its agencies and institutions work for the common good of all citizens, regardless of origin, gender or religion.