Description
On December 2, an open session/lecture was take place at Gróska, organized by the Architecture Department of the Iceland University of the Arts and the Association of Icelandic Architects.French architect Pierre David will give a lecture titled "Poetry moves away from the language of the concept to bring us closer to what it designates".
Following the lecture, a panel discussion with students and architects was held. The session was part of the course “Urban Lab - Borgarýni”, attended by second-year architecture students at the Iceland University of the Arts during the fall semester. The course is led by Sahar Ghaderi and Karl Kvaran. The session was open to the public, and everyone interested was encouraged to attend.
About Pierre David:
After teaching for eight years at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles, he went on to teach landscape and architectural design at Harvard GSD, Columbia University and Rice University. He has been a visiting professor at many other American universities including Berkeley, UWM/Milwaukee and Iowa State University.
In France, he has taught at the Ecole d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand and in Marseille. He has also had the role of professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais.
In 2003 he was a finalist for the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in New York. His project “Garden of Light” came in second place from a field of more than 6,800 submissions and featured widely in national and international media.
Along with Roland Castro and City-Linked, he also co-designed the prospective project Evry Métropole 2025 for the Evry Centre Essonne urban community. On an entirely different scale, he designed an urban spa, the “Six Senses”, on the Place Vendôme in Paris in collaboration with Patrick Blanc, a plant-wall designer, a spa set in a 5-star luxury hotel in St Gervais and another for the Sofitel hotel in Moscow.
He is the author of a book on the King’s vegetable garden at Versailles published by Editions de la Martinière, Le Potager du Roi, with Gilles Memet, photographer. He was editor-in-chief of the reference work on the design and construction of the Louis Vuitton Foundation by Frank Gehry in Paris.
Since 2009 he has been a United Nations Development Program expert for the two holy cities of Islam in Saudi Arabia, Mecca and Medina and his studio at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Malaquais is working with the Centre Français de Jerusalem (CNRS), the Ecole des Beaux arts de Paris and Bezalel School of Architecture in Jerusalem to develop the concept of a third country situated between the green line of 1948 and the wall of separation built in the 2000s between Israel and Palestine.
Today he is continuing his projects individually and within the collective he founded: Lateral Agency.
| Period | 2 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|
| Event type | Seminar |
| Degree of Recognition | International |