What Is Green Architecture?

Beyond Green: A Talk by Matthias Sauerbruch Lecture + Dialog 06/16/08 7:00pm Please note our new location: Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany 871 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 English Free admission. Reservations required. 212-439-8691 The Goethe-Institut New York presents What Is Green Architecture?, a new series of conversations, lectures, and events exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on contemporary life as well as implications for the future. The series continues with a talk by noted architect Matthias Sauerbruch followed by a conversation with Andres Lepik. Matthias Sauerbruch is most famous for his "city-landscapes": this is what he calls the design of his colorful and energetic buildings, such as the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau or the GSW headquarters in Berlin. Sauerbruch understands the work of architects and urban planners as landscape-gardening by means of shaping their surroundings with colorful and organic buildings. Sauerbruch believes that it was his time in architecture school in Berlin and later in London which led him to his success today. From 1985-1989, he worked in Rem Koolhaas's London office as a project manager, and helped him build the Checkpoint Charlie Haus Friedrichstraße 214 in Berlin. He founded the company Sauerbruch Hutton in London in 1989 with his future wife, Ms. Louisa Hutton. In 1993, a branch of the office was also opened in Berlin. Matthias Sauerbruch was a professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design) in Stuttgart from 2001-2007. In the spring term of 2008 Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton were visiting professors at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has won several prizes, including the Fritz Schumacher Preis für Architektur (2003), the Deutsche Fassadenpreis (2001), the Deutsche Architekturpreis (2001), and the Erich-Schelling-Architekturpreis (1998). What Is Green Architecture? series curator and moderator Dr. Andres Lepik studied art history and German literature at universities in Augsburg and Munich, earning his Ph. D. in Rome on Architectural Models in the Renaissance. He has curated noted architecture exhibitions, including solo shows highlighting the work of Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, and Oswald Mathias Ungers at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and the German venue for The Museum of Modern Art’s Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Die Berliner Jahre 1907-1938 at Altes Museum. He is currently Curator in the Architecture & Design Department of The Museum of Modern Art, as well as author of Skyscrapers. Future events planned in the What Is Green Architecture? series include conversations with Friedrich von Borries (http://www.raumtaktik.de/) and Stefan Behnisch (http://www.behnisch.com/). Website