Eva Franch i Gilabert: Alternative practices
On Tuesday April 24, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Eva Franch i Gilabert, the main curator and executive director of the New York gallery Storefront for Art and Architecture, future director of the British AA School of Architecture, and architect of Catalan origin, will speak at the Prague UMPRUM in room 115 about alternative models of architectural practice.
Franch will present the transformative process from her own architectural practice to leading some of the most renowned independent architectural institutions and soon schools in the world, as well as her groundbreaking work testing mutations of architectural work such as OfficeUS, Competition of Competitions, Letters to the Mayor, No Shame Storefront for Sale, Critical Halloween, and she will briefly also discuss education, the election process, and her own aspirations within her upcoming directorship at the Architecture Association School of Architecture.
Eva Franch is an architect, curator, educator, and lecturer on experimental forms of art and architectural practice. She specializes in creating alternative histories and futures of architecture. Since 2010, she has been the main curator and executive director of Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York.
Franch is a professor at Cooper Union's School of Architecture and has taught at Columbia University GSAPP, IUAV in Venice, SUNY Buffalo, and Rice University School of Architecture. In her lectures, which she conducts around the world, she focuses primarily on the themes of art, architecture, and the importance of alternative approaches in shaping and understanding public life in educational and cultural institutions. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships and has exhibited her work internationally, including at FAD Barcelona, Vitra Design Museum, and the Shenzen Architecture Biennale. In 2014, Franch was selected by the U.S. Department of State to represent the U.S. pavilion at the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale with the OfficeUS project. Among her most recent publications are Agenda (Lars Muller, 2014), Atlas (Lars Muller, 2015), and Manual (Lars Muller, 2017) as part of OfficeUS. Upcoming publications include The Book of Architecture Books and Letters to the Mayor, which is set to be published in 2018.
The lecture will be in English and admission is free.
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Franch will present the transformative process from her own architectural practice to leading some of the most renowned independent architectural institutions and soon schools in the world, as well as her groundbreaking work testing mutations of architectural work such as OfficeUS, Competition of Competitions, Letters to the Mayor, No Shame Storefront for Sale, Critical Halloween, and she will briefly also discuss education, the election process, and her own aspirations within her upcoming directorship at the Architecture Association School of Architecture.
Eva Franch is an architect, curator, educator, and lecturer on experimental forms of art and architectural practice. She specializes in creating alternative histories and futures of architecture. Since 2010, she has been the main curator and executive director of Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York.
Franch is a professor at Cooper Union's School of Architecture and has taught at Columbia University GSAPP, IUAV in Venice, SUNY Buffalo, and Rice University School of Architecture. In her lectures, which she conducts around the world, she focuses primarily on the themes of art, architecture, and the importance of alternative approaches in shaping and understanding public life in educational and cultural institutions. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships and has exhibited her work internationally, including at FAD Barcelona, Vitra Design Museum, and the Shenzen Architecture Biennale. In 2014, Franch was selected by the U.S. Department of State to represent the U.S. pavilion at the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale with the OfficeUS project. Among her most recent publications are Agenda (Lars Muller, 2014), Atlas (Lars Muller, 2015), and Manual (Lars Muller, 2017) as part of OfficeUS. Upcoming publications include The Book of Architecture Books and Letters to the Mayor, which is set to be published in 2018.
The lecture will be in English and admission is free.
More information >
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