Florian Idenburg Lecture

Florian Idenburg 2010 Brown Forman Visiting Chair in Urban Design Founder, SO-IL, New York Friday, 1 October 6pm / Pence Hall Florian Idenburg was born in the Netherlands and holds a MSc. from Delft University. Prior to founding SO–IL, Idenburg was an associate at SANAA in Japan between 2000 and 2007. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and a Design Critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Previously he held the position of Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. He is a frequent lecturer, panelist and critic at universities and institutes throughout the U.S. and abroad. His writings appear regularly in magazines such as Abitare, Domus, a+u, and Mark Magazine. In his teaching he has been exploring the role of architecture in different social cultural and economical conditions. Part of this research is the subject of a book Idenburg edited, “Learning from Japan”, published by Lars Mueller Publishers in 2009.