The Landscape Model - The Bartlett International Lectures

About

Streamed live on The Bartlett School of Architecture's YouTube channel, this event will be a discussion between co-hosts Zifeng Ye, Laura Allen and Mark Smout, and speaker Luis Callejas of LCLA Office.

This event forms part of The Bartlett International Lectures Autumn 2021.

This autumn and spring, each of the International Lectures will be curated by one of the school's programmes to inspire, invent, imagine, and provoke. This event is curated by Landscape Architecture MA/MLA.

Abstract

The Landscape Model

Luis Callejas will present recent projects in which designed landscapes serve as a departure point for architecture. The projects expose an attitude towards scale as something plastic, while assigning an important role to live matter.

Speaker biography

Luis Callejas is the director of LCLA Office and is a professor at the Oslo School of Architecture.  He taught Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD between 2011 to 2016, and was the Louis Kahn Assistant Professor in Architecture at Yale in 2020.

Completed projects include the aquatic center for the IX South American Games in Medellín. The studio was awarded with the Architecture League of NY Prize for Young Architects in 2013. Luis was one of the three finalists of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in 2016. His works have been exhibited recently at the Lisbon Triennial, the Oslo Architecture Triennial, the first Chicago Architecture Biennale and the Venice Biennale, among others.

More information

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Image: Luis Callejas