February 17 , 2006
at SHARE
Projects on the edge
A lecture by Christian Kerez
Followed by a Reception
Christian Kerez will kick off the lecture series linked to the Inventioneering Architecture exhibit recently inaugurated at Logan Airport. The other lectures will take place until end of March at five schools of architecture around the Boston area.
He will show and discuss recent examples of his work and offer his perspective, as an assistant professor at ETHZ, on educational programs in design and architecture. His lecture will focus on the notion that architecture can be defined by its medium – the space. The projects attempt to create an architectural logic out of a variety of incidental, external circumstances and requirements. The material, the construction and the image of the space are the result, not the starting point, of the quest for rigidity and clearness of the architectural concept.
Biography
Christian Kerez was born in 1962 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and received a Masters in Architecture in 1988. He was a design architect in the office of Rudolf Fontana from 1991 to 1993. After extensive published work in the field of architectural photography, he opened his own architectural office in Zurich, Switzerland in 1993.
Christian Kerez has been a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich since 2001 and has been appointed as Assistant professor in design and architecture. Further, he received the 1998 Swiss art scholarship.
Inventioneering Architecture at Terminal E, Logan Airport
Inventioneering Architecture is a showcase of Swiss Higher Education with a focus on architecture and design. The goal of the exhibit is to open an international discussion on different approaches in teaching architecture. Student models, drafts, and further information about teaching and researching are presented. Tours are available daily from 2 to 7pm.