Architect Juan Herreros Presents Morgenstern Lecture at IIT March 28
Chicago, IL — February 26, 2007 —
Juan Herreros, a partner in the Spanish firm of Abalos & Herreros and the current occupant of the Morgenstern Visiting Chair in Architecture, will present a lecture on Wednesday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m. in IIT's Wishnick Auditorium, 3255 S. Dearborn in Chicago.
Herreros will lecture on his firm’s recent work. Abalos & Herreros have been said to design “urban monuments.” The firm’s interests are centered on the relationship between building and nature, the rapport between the natural and the artificial, their collaboration with visual artists, and the techniques and mixed programs that they have called "a new naturalism."
The award-winning work of Ábalos & Herreros has been exhibited in collective exhibitions in New York, Tokyo, Madrid and elsewhere. Their work has also been compiled in the monographs Ábalos & Herreros (Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1992), Areas of Impunity (Barcelona: Actar, 1997), Recycling Madrid (Barcelona: Actar, 2000), 2G number 22 (Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2002) and Grand Tour (Las Palmas, Canary Islands: Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, 2005). They are the authors of Tower and Office: From Modernist Theory to Contemporary Practice (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003) and Natural-Artificial (Madrid: Exit. Liga Multimedia Internacional, 1999).
Established by a gift from the Victor A. Morgenstern Family Foundation, the Morgenstern Visiting Chair in Architecture is an architectural practitioner of the highest caliber, who has a substantial body of work that is widely and recently recognized in the field.
The occupant of the Morgenstern Chair teaches an upper-level studio class, delivers a public evening lecture, and participates in the academic life of the college. Herreros will teach with IIT Assistant Professor Susan Conger-Austin in a studio project to design a new student housing complex located directly north of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center. The project is meant to create a space that both connects and provides a counterpoint to the two new stylistically distinct buildings and the historic campus through careful study and understanding of the site, program, and vision.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting university with more than 6,700 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business, and law. IIT's interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum is designed to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, cultivate inventions that improve the human condition, and prepare students worldwide for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment.
