Baumer Lecture Series, Craig Dykers

Engaging the Commons -- The Knowlton School Spring 2023 Baumer Lecture Series

The Knowlton School invites practitioners and scholars to think about how the design professions’ particpate in (and with) the dense social and political webs of the built environment, and how active practices might engage these places—our “commons.”

Craig Dykers is a founding partner at Snøhetta and has led many of their prominent projects including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, Ryerson University Student Learning Centre, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion, and the Times Square Reconstruction.

Dykers’s work has received numerous awards and widespread recognition including the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the World Architecture Award, and the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture. His interest in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being is supported by ongoing observation and development of an innovative design process.   Dykers has been the diploma adjudicator at the Architectural College in Oslo and a distinguished professor at City College in New York City and a visiting critic in the Syracuse University New York City studio. He has lectured extensively in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.