What Is Green Architecture?

A Talk by Friedrich von Borries Lecture + Dialog 10/14/08 7:00pm Please note new location: The Architectural League of New York 457 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 English Free admission. {encode="[email protected]" title="Reservations required."} 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 Friedrich von Borries followed by a conversation with Andres Lepik. Friedrich von Borries was born in 1974 and studied architecture at the University of the Arts Berlin, the ISA St. Luc in Bruxelles, and the Technical University Karlsruhe, where he received his PhD in 2004. He taught at the Technical University Berlin from 2001-2003 and at the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau from 2002-2005. In 2007/08 he was a visiting professor for art and public space at the Academy of Visual Arts Nuremberg and has been a visiting scholar at the ETH Zurich since 2007. He is a member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Friedrich von Borries is the general commissioner for the German contribution to the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, and together with Matthias Böttger he runs raumtaktik, the “agency for spatial investigation and intervention” in Berlin. 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. This event is presented with the support of The Architectural League of New York. Future events planned in the What Is Green Architecture? series include a conversation with Stefan Behnisch (http://www.behnisch.com/) on December 4, 2008. http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/arc/en3566275v.htm