Jerry van Eyck of !melk presented by Space.City

Thursday, April 5, 2012
5:00 pm – Complimentary Happy Hour
6:00 pm – Lecture by Jerry Van Eyck

* ARCADE has a special offer for those who attend next week’s space.city lecture by Jerry van Eyck. All attendees will receive a complimentary one year subscription to ARCADE at the event.

Tickets: $10 Advance,  $12 at the door,  $5 for students (student id required at the door)
Seattle Public Library
1000 4th Ave
Seattle, Washington 98164
(map) Use 4th Ave Entrance

Land/Gen/Dairy
Jerry Van Eyck has been an influential force in landscape architecture and has worked on award-winning projects around the globe, including Master Plans, Public Spaces, and Urban Waterfronts. A founding principal of !melk in New York City, formerly of West 8, Mr. Van Eyck will present examples of his work against the backdrop of a critical view of his home country, the Netherlands. In this dynamic lecture, you’ll connect to Mr. Van Eyck’s passion for urbanity, understand his holistic approach to design and detailing, and reveal his sheer joy in the unexpected interplay of people and their environment.

(Bio:)
Trained as a landscape architect and industrial designer, Jerry Van Eyck possesses an unusual breadth and depth of skills that he applies to every project under his purview. He approaches each commission balancing both the macro-scale—how open and public space fit into the larger context of a city’s fabric and the urban experience—with the micro-, expressing materiality, ornamentation, and pattern through custom furniture, lighting, paving, and other details that give each project a singular identity.

Dutch born Van Eyck graduated Cum Laude from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 1992, after which he joined Rotterdam-based West 8 in 1992 (he became a full partner in 2000), and he managed and designed numerous projects on an international level. One of his earliest collaborations with West 8, Schouwburgplein (‘Theatre Square’) in Rotterdam, continues to be a model for contemporary urban square design, with custom furniture, iconic crane-like lights, and a trademark hardscape pattern that has remarkably withstood the test of time and heavy use.

Van Eyck has collaborated with and led international teams on award-winning projects and competitions, including London’s Jubilee Gardens, the 100-acre park for the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, One North Park in Singapore, and Soundscape Park in Miami Beach. While he was a partner at West 8, he was the project director of the team winning the international design competition for the Governors Island Park and Public Space Design in New York.

In February of 2010 Jerry Van Eyck founded !melk landscape architecture/urban design in New York City.

Jerry Van Eyck is an adjunct professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and is a board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

www.melk-nyc.com

Van Eyck’s lecture is brought to you by Space.City

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We regret to inform you that Stefan Behnisch has cancelled. We hope to host him in the future!

Architect Stefan Behnisch founded Behnisch Architekten in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1989, becoming renowned for innovative sustainable buildings, such as the Institute for Forestry and Nature Research in Wageningen, The Netherlands. As the firm expanded, further offices were founded in Los Angeles, CA (1999), Boston, MA (2007), and Munich, Germany (2008). Stefan Behnisch has been an advocate of sustainable design since he started working as an architect. Many of his buildings have received prestigious awards, and the Genzyme Center in Cambridge, MA, was rated LEED Platinum. Projects on the firm’s drawing boards include Harvard’s Allston Science Complex in Allston, Boston, and residential buildings in the USA and Germany, as well as office buildings, laboratories, and health care buildings in various countries.

Stefan Behnisch was the Eero Saarinen Chair visiting professor at Yale School of Architecture from 2005 to 2008. In 2007 he was nominated for the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (one of five) and in 2008 named Honorary Fellow of the AIA – American Institute of Architects. Born 1957, he studied philosophy, economics and architecture in Munich and Karlsruhe, Germany.

See examples of his work at:
http://www.behnisch.com/