Snøhetta: Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Monday 30 March 2020 6.30 - 8pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£15, £9
A lecture by Kjetil Thorsen, founder of global architecture practice Snøhetta, where he will explore the firm’s extensive contribution to museum design.
To coincide with the Gauguin and the Impressionists, which shows masterworks from Denmark’s Ordrupgaard Collection currently being refurbished and expanded by Snøhetta, we have invited the firm’s founder to expand on the practice’s thinking on museum design.
A strong believer in the power of culture, Thorsen has led Snøhetta through myriad of museum projects. From SF MoMA and the Ibsen Museum, to the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion. This lecture will take you through examples of cultural projects and reveal the considerations that go into creating buildings that facilitate art and artistic creativity.
The work of Snøhetta is renowned internationally for its highly collaborative approach to design, which sits at the intersection of architecture and landscape and often merges public space with the site and the building itself. Public space sits at the heart of every project and every design works hard to generate a sense of public ownership.
There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the lecture.