Dean Hawkes: The poetics of the architectural environment in a Nordic context

Beskrivelse

The Royal Danish Academy are very pleased to invite everyone to the open public lecture The poetics of the architectural environment in a Nordic context by the English architect and professor Dean Hawkes.‘If we maintain that light defines the Nordic character … it is to imply that we understand ‘climate’ qualitatively. Light is conjunctive with weather and in the North, weather plays a more important role than in the South’s more stable world … In the North we are bound to a world of forces, because we inhabit the realm of the night.’This quotation from Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Nightlands: Nordic Architecture eloquently captures the fundamental relationship between natural light and the architecture of the Nordic countries. In this lecture an observer from a more southerly latitude offers an interpretation and appreciation of this relationship. This will refer to studies first presented in The Environmental Imagination and will consist of two parts. The first from the essay, ‘The ‘other’ environmental tradition; Nordic masters’, will
review the works of a sequence of 20th century buildings by Nordic architects. The second, ‘Sigurd Lewerentz: architecture of adaptive light’, will propose a specific interpretation of the late sacred buildings by Sigurd Lewerentz.

Periode	6 okt. 2022
Begivenhedstype	Andet