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Project Website (with 91 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11198/
Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents the project "Mind to Matter: The Literary Dimension of Architecture," which is comprised of a lecture by architect and critic Diane Lewis (40 min), followed by a public conversation with Deborah Gans (30 min).
Mind to Matter, Diane Lewis's forthcoming book, includes projects and essays on the issue of contemporary form and siting generated by a literary reading of the city plan. This work informs the specific lecture that she will present at Slought Foundation, "The City as Art-Work of the 21st Century," engaging the literary parallels between surrealism and 20 century architecture.
A native New Yorker, Diane Lewis has accomplished a series of highly articulate and detailed constructed architectural works for progressive clients in an independent practice spanning 25 years. She was one of the International architects selected to compete to design the addition to the Mies Van der Rohe Campus at IIT in 1997. Upon the completion of a mid 70’s education at Cooper Union, she was recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome in 1976.
As colleague of John Hejduk and Raimund Abraham she is a tenured Professor at The Cooper Union, where she has taught since 1982. She has been Guest Professor at the TU Berlin 98-2000, guest professor at Harvard GSD 91-91, & 03, and conducted a collaborative studio with Frank Gehry at the Yale Graduate School of Architecture in 89&90.
Trained at the offices of IM Pei and Richard Meier, her experience spans civic work of many scales. Recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant for her forthcoming book Mind to Matter, which will be published by George Braziller New York, she has also co-edited The Education of An Architect V2, and recently published a book entitled Rome Berlin New York on the work of the studio she conducts at Cooper Union.
Deborah Gans is a partner in the office of Gans & Jelacic, Architecture and Design. Their work in the fields of industrial design and architecture has been exhibited at RIBA, London, IFA, Paris and the Van Alen Institute in New York City. Their recent investigation into disaster relief housing has won international awards and a grant for development from the Johnny Walker Fund. Gans is a Professor in architecture at Pratt Institute in New York, the author of The Le Corbusier Guide (Princeton Architectural Press) and the editor of The Organic Appproach (Architecture/John Wiley- London).
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