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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
At the
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place
The Pairing:
David Adjaye, Founder and Principal Architect, Adjaye Associates and Thomas Campbell, Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cocktail Design by: Toby Cecchini, Bartender and Author
Organized by: AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee and cultureNOW
Price: $15 for AIA members; $20 for non-members - one drink included
AIA CES: 1.5 LU
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Join us for a conversation with David Adjaye, Founder and Principal Architect, Adjaye Associates and Thomas Campbell, Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art
How do you spend your Friday evening? Do you join those who pack NYC’s cultural institutions like sardines or those crowds over populating film theaters? When the Center for Architecture, one of the City’s premier cultural institutions, hosts a pair of NYC’s most interesting and provocatively creative thinkers, it will certainly lift your spirits.
This series of dialogues about design pairs a notable architect with a recognized critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture and other design issues. Since you shouldn’t start Friday night without an adequate drink, we’ll provide a custom-crafted cocktails inspired by the architect’s work and created in-situ for this event. Join us in growing the tradition of “Delight Night” in New York's weekend cultural scene—no Blight Night here.
Speakers:
David Adjaye, OBE, Founder and Primary Architect, Adjaye Associates
David Adjaye was born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents. His influences range from contemporary art, music and science to African art forms and the civic life of cities. Since 2000 he has won numerous prestigious commissions and maintains a global practice with offices in London, Berlin, New York, Accra, and Shanghai. Adjaye Associates’ largest completed project to date is the £160 million Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. In 2009 his team was selected to design the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on Washington’s National Mall. His office has also recently completed a social housing project in NYC’s Sugar Hill area and the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at Harvard’s Hutchins Center.
Adjaye has taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had previously studied, and at the Architectural Association School in London, and has held distinguished professorships at the universities of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Princeton. He is currently the John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard. He was awarded the OBE for services to architecture in 2007, received the Design Miami/Year of the Artist title in 2011, the Wall Street Journal Innovator Award in 2013 and Harvard’s W.E.B Du Bois Medal in 2014. He is an Academician in the National Academy of Design.
Adjaye’s ten-year study of the capital cities of Africa was shown in Urban Africa, an exhibition at the Design Museum, London and published as African Metropolitan Architecture in NYC. He is now collaborating with Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Art Institute of Chicago on a comprehensive retrospective exhibition to open in 2015.
Thomas P. Campbell, PhD, Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas P. Campbell is the ninth director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere. After fourteen years as a curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, specializing in tapestries, he was elected Director and CEO in 2008. Campbell has pursued an agenda for the Met that focuses on both scholarship and accessibility. These priorities maintain the museum's focus on exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and permanent collections, while encouraging new thinking about the visitor experience. Further initiatives have included exploring the judicious use of technology in the Museum and fully integrating education into all the Met's activities.
Born in Singapore and raised in Cambridge, England, he received his BA in English literature from New College, Oxford followed by a Diploma from Christie's Fine and Decorative Arts course, London. While studying for his Master's degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, he discovered the extent to which mainstream art history had overlooked the major role that the tapestry medium played in European art and propaganda. His early research culminated in several groundbreaking research articles and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1999) on the art and culture of King Henry VIII's court. During his 14 years in the Met's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, he rose steadily from Assistant Curator to Curator in December 2008. He also served as Supervising Curator of The Antonio Ratti Textile Center, which houses the Museum's collection of 36,000 textiles—one of the preeminent centers of textile studies in the world.
Campbell has lectured and taught extensively on European court patronage and the relation of tapestries to the other arts at institutions and museums worldwide. He has published extensively on the subject of historic European textiles and their relationship to other art forms of their periods. His book Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court was published by Yale University Press in 2007; his articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals such as Burlington Magazine, Apollo Magazine, Studies in the Decorative Arts, and Gazette des Beaux-Arts. He has received many awards and fellowships, including the Iris Foundation Award (Bard Graduate Center) for a scholar in mid-career deserving of recognition for outstanding contributions to the study of the decorative arts.
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