Kai-Uew Bergmann at BIG's New York office.
Space.City hosts a talk by Kai-Uwe Bergmann of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) at Seattle Central Library on May 29, 2013, at 6:30 pm.
Tickets, $12 online, $15 door, $5 student w/ID: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/369751
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group operates within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG has created a reputation for projects that are programmatically and technically innovative while cost and resource conscious. Current and recent work includes 8 House in Copenhagen (2010), the Danish Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo (2010), West 57th Tower in New York City, and Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah.
A partner with BIG, Kai-Uwe Bergmann brings his expertise to proposals around the globe; currently the office is working in over fifteen different countries throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States. Registered as an architect in the USA, UK and Denmark, Kai-Uwe was Project Manager upon Central Asia’s first Carbon Neutral Master Plan – Zira Island in Baku, Azerbaijan. Kai-Uwe also sits on numerous international juries and lectures on the work of BIG worldwide. He complements his professional work through teaching assignments at IE University in Madrid and San Diego’s New School of Architecture.
Public Library for the final lecture of our Fall “Un Limited Means” Series. Bilbao is a native of Mexico City and founded Tatiana Bilbao S.C. there in 2004. Since then, Bilbao has quickly won international recognition for her work. Her studio was awarded one of the top ten emerging firms of 2007 by Architecture Record, awarded Best Young Architect in the country in 2011 by CAM-SAM for Mexico, and was the recipient of the Kunstpriese Berlin 2012 by the Akademie der Kunste. Several of her projects were also acquired by the Centre George Pompidou for its permanent Architectural Collection. Tatiana Bilbao S.C. aims to raise the human quality of life through architecture by working with the immediate environment, surrounding materials, hand labor, and techniques. Through creating a climate of collaboration, they regenerate “humanized” spaces that are aware of and react to global capitalism, and open up niches for cultural and economic development.
Alejandro Echeverri is an internationally acclaimed architect and planner from Medellín, Colombia, Colombia and Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies at EAFIT University. In addition, as the City’s Director of Urban Projects, Echeverri has played crucial role in the rejuvenation of Medellín. With the support and partnership of the city’s mayor, Sergio Fajardo, Echeverri established public works programs and initiated building a series of visually striking libraries, schools, parks, and community centers in Medellín’s most impoverished areas. The works program even included an elevated gondola that connects some of Medellín’s poorest and most isolated neighborhoods to the rest of the city. Because of these efforts and the his belief in the power of design, Medellín’s crime rate has dropped significantly. Medellín is now considered a blueprint for the future of other cities in the developing world.
