Ben van Berkel
Dean's Statement
- Dean Ben van Berkel - photo: Koos Breukel
From Gaudi’s suspended constructions to Le Corbusier’s five points of the new architecture, architects have sought to formulate new models that encapsulate and consolidate into one bold statement aspects of construction, occupation and context in the broadest sense - always with a view to immediate implementation.
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The Dean’s Honorary Lecture
In 2006 SAC introduced the Dean’s Honorary Lecture in conjunction with its end-of-year events. Each year, a lecturer is selected by the Dean on the basis of the merit and influence the person has had on architecture.
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The Dean's Honorary Lecture
In 2006 SAC introduced the Dean’s Honorary Lecture in conjunction with its end-of-year events. Each year, a lecturer is selected by the Dean on the basis of the merit and influence the person has had on architecture. The series presents distinguished persona in architecture and seeks at once to honor the person for his or her contributions to architecture and allow the guest to present current views on the
status of the field.
2009
Brett Steele
Brett Steele is the Director of the Architectural Association, London and AA Publications. He is the founder and former Director of the AADRL Design Research Lab, the innovative team- and network-based M.Arch programme at the Architectural Association.
2008
Greg Lynn
Greg Lynn, arguable the most important architect over the last fifteen year with respect to the use of computers for architectural design, is still young. In the least, he is young in terms of architecture...
2007
Mohsen Mostafavi
Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is currently the dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The Dean’s Honorary Lecture in the Städelschule he gave while being the dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger professor of architecture at Cornell University. Prior to this, he was the Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London fro nine years. Mostafavi has taught and lectured at a number of other prestigious schools and was a guest professor in Städelschule.
Mostafavi studied architecture at the AA and undertook research on counter-reformation urban history at the universities of Essex and Cambridge. In co-authorship with David Leatherbarrow, he wrote the awarded books “Surface Architecture” (MIT Press, 2002) and “On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time” (MIT Press, 1993). He is also the co-author with Homa Farjadi of “Delayed Space” (Princeton Architectural Press, 1994). Mostafavi has edited and contributed to a number of publications, among them “Logique Visuelle” (Idea Books, 2003), a book on architecture and fashion. His writings have also been published in such prestigious journals as Architectural Review , Arquitectura and Daidalos. Of recently he edited and contributed to “Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape” (2004) and “Structure as Space” (2006), documenting the work of the Swiss engineer, Jürg Conzett.
2006
Mark Wigley
Mark Wigley is a renowned architectural theorist who has been highly
influential on the theory and practice of architecture since the late
1980s . He is professor of architecture and the dean of the faculty
of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in
New York. He is the longest-standing member of the faculty of SAC,
having been invited by Enrique Miralles to Frankfurt in 1992.