We invite you to the third lecture of the series November Talks at the Faculty of Architecture CTU, where on Monday November 20, 2017, at 6:30 PM architect Kees Christiaanse, partner of Rem Koolhaas in OMA until 1989, then founder of KCAP, a Dutch office successful among other things in large-scale urbanism and urban planning.
Prof. ir. Kees Christiaanse studied architecture and urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. He worked alongside Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), where he became a partner in 1983. Six years later, he founded his own office, now KCAP Architects&Planners, based in Rotterdam with branches in Zurich and Shanghai. Christiaanse has held positions at prestigious universities and research institutions (TU Berlin, ETH Zurich, and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore). In 2009, he became the curator of the 4th International Architectural Biennale in Rotterdam titled "Open city. Designing Coexistence". In 2016, he was awarded the "2016 RIBA International Fellowship" for his contributions to architecture.
The series is part of the “November Talks” series, which has been organized by the Sto-Stiftung foundation for the twelfth year at six leading European schools of architecture. It has been held at the CTU Faculty of Architecture for the third year.
The cycle will conclude on November 27, 2017, with a lecture by Farshid Moussavi at the Bethlehem Chapel on Bethlehem Square in Prague. Admission to the lectures is free and accessible.