Lecture：Exhibition “From Pyramids to Spacecraft”
Presentation by Andreas Vogler and Arturo Vittori, architects of the Exhibition “From Pyramids to Spacecraft” followed by Q & A.
Where: Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University
When: June 18th, 2010 - from 3pm to 4pm
Where: Rm505, Innovation Center, Peking University Science Park,
127-1 ZhongGuanCun North Street, Haidian District, Beijing
Language: English
Profile of Speaker
Andreas Vogler
(Basel, 1964) Swiss architect and co-founder of Architecture and Vision (AV). After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he worked with Richard Horden in London and at the Technical University of Munich. He was Guest Professor at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, conducting research in prefabricated building. He has written numerous papers on space architecture and technology transfer.
(Viterbo, 1971) Italian architect is co-founder of Architecture and Vision (AV). After graduating from the University of Florence, he collaborated with Santiago Calatrava, Jean Nouvel and Francis Design on a variety of architectural projects and with Future Systems and Anish Kapoor on the subway station in Naples. Vittori worked on aircraft, yacht and ship design in Toulouse, France and London, including designs for the interior for the first Airbus A380.
On the occasion of the preparation visit of the two architects and founders of the above named exhibition, the Embassy of Switzerland has the pleasure to invite the students and teachers from Chinese universities to a lecture held by Mr. Andreas Vogler (Swiss) and Mr. Arturo Vittori (Italian).
The architects present their exhibition works, a new understanding of the precious value of resources like water, energy, food and air, demonstrate that our society, defined by over-production and over-consumption, is reaching its limits and how a new quality of life is possible.
For further information please contact:
at PKU: Ms Jia Huimin, 62967408, Mail: info@turenscape.com
at the Embassy of Switzerland: Mrs. Christine Kyburz
Tel.: 8532 8817, Mail: christine.kyburz@eda.admin.ch
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