IE University hosts a lectura by one of the big masters of architecture, Elia Zenghelis

Elia Zenghelis, one of the big names in European architecture and one of its greatest professors with more than fifty years of experience, will offer next Friday January, 24^th at 13h00, a lecture in IE University in Segovia. Zenghelis lecture features in the framework of “Encounters”, organized by the School of Architecture of the private university.

Zenghelis, 1937 – Athens, Greece, is considered as one of the most influent masters in the transformation of Architecture teaching in the last half-century. In his career he has been visiting professor in the leading schools of architecture, in Europe, Asia and America. This Greek architect is, without doubt, one of the most prestigious contemporary architects.

Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture of Yale University, Zenghelis was co-founder with Rem Koolhaas, Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). In 2000, he received the Annie Spink Award for Education Excellence from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). And his work is shown in the New York Museum of Modern Art collection.

In this lecture at IE University, – named A Return: Visualizing the Project within a Broad Framework – Zenghelis will question the relation between politics and architecture, and will explore how an initial project can be the beginning for new proposals.

The “Encounters” cycle, that takes part all over the academic year, analyzes the multiple ways in which an architect contemplates a project and the different alternatives he has to trigger the creative process. Before, the cycle has welcomed the lectures of the journalist and film-maker Oskar Alegría, and of professor and researcher of Zurich ETH Toni Kotnik. After Zenghelis’ lecture, the next guest will be Merritt Bucholz, the innovative American architect, on February 28^th.