Bucky Fuller Conferences
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Ivorypress Art + Books presents BUCKY FULLER & SPACESHIP EARTH © Tim Porter Street CONFERENCE CYCLE As part of exhibition, Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth, a series of conferences will be held to reflect on the life and work of the architect and designer, Richard Buckminster Fuller. • Bucky Fuller: Setting the Stage The first conference will take place on 9 September at 12:30 pm. Participants will include Allegra Fuller, daughter of Buckminster Fuller; Thomas Zung, architect and partner of Fuller; and Norman Foster and Luis Fernández-Galiano, the exhibition curators. • Bucky Fuller Today: His influence on architecture, contemporary art and science The second conference will be held on 11 September at 9:00 pm, coinciding with Madrid’s Noche en Blanco (a Europe-wide cultural event), and will focus on the influence of Fuller’s ideas on the new generation of architects. Participants will include Benedetta Tagliabue, Juan Herreros, and Alejandro Zaera Polo; Luis Fernández-Galiano will serve as moderator. Speakers’ biographies ALLEGRA FULLER SNYDER is Honorary Chairwoman of the Board of Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. She is Professor Emerita of Dance and Dance Ethnology at UCLA, where she is also former Chair of the Department of Dance and founding coordinator of the World Arts and Cultures Program. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including several Fulbright Scholarships for dance research around the world. She has also been a distinguished Marian Chace Foundation lecturer. LUIS FERNÁNDEZ-GALIANO is an architect, professor at the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM), and editor of the AV/Arquitectura Viva journals. He also writes for the Op-Ed section of El País. As a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors, he has been Cullinan Professor at Rice University and Franke Fellow at Yale University. Fernández-Galiano has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Center of Los Angeles and a visiting critic at Harvard and Princeton Universities and at the Berlage Institute. He was president of the jury at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennial and at the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial, as well as an expert and juror of the Mies van der Rohe European Award. He is also a curator and author. NORMAN FOSTER is chairman and founder of Foster + Partners in London. He has been a pioneer in implementing sustainable approaches to architecture and ecology, from urban planning, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design. He became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999 and was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture in 2002. In 2009 he became the 29th laureate of the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. JUAN HERREROS is a professor at the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM), director of Aula Fin de Carrera, and a professor at Columbia University. He has also taught at EPF in Lausanne, Architectural Association in London, IIT in Chicago and SoA at Princeton University. His company, herrerosarquitectos, provides professional, educational, and research services. He has received a RIBA International Fellowship, the AD award for Architecture, and has been nominated for an American Academy of Arts and Letters medal. BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE was born in Milan. She graduated in Venice and expanded on her architectural studies in New York. In 1991 she met Enric Miralles, and together they founded Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio, headquartered in Barcelona. Her work with Miralles includes projects in Barcelona such as Santa Caterina Market, and ventures in Europe including the School of Music of Hamburg and Utrecht Town Hall. In 1998, they won a tender to design Scotland’s new parliament building. After Miralles’s death in 2000, Tagliabue took control of the studio. The parliament building was inaugurated in 2004 and received the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize in 2005. ALEJANDRO ZAERA POLO was born in Madrid in 1963 and studied architecture at the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM). He founded FOA (Foreign Office Architects) architecture studio in London with Farshid Moussavi. He is currently the Berlage Chair at the Technical University in Delft, in the Netherlands. He has been Dean of the Berlage Institute of Rotterdam and a guest professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, Columbia University in New York, Princeton University in New Jersey, the School of Architecture in Madrid, and the School of Architecture in Yokohama. THOMAS TK ZUNG is currently a board member of Synergetic Collaboratives (SNEC). He began his career with Edward Durell Stone and has worked on the US Embassy in India, the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, the General Motors Building in New York, and the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Zung was Fuller’s architectural partner at Buckminster Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects. He is a founding member of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and was named Distinguished Senior Fellow to the Stanford University Libraries. He is the author/editor of Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millennium. 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