David Kohn lecture
Bodies of Thought
Monday 25 March 2019 6.30 - 8pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£15, £9 Concessions
Join us for a lecture by architect David Kohn, where he discusses sculpture and it relationship to architecture.
Since establishing his practice in 2007, architect David Kohn has collaborated regularly with artists and sculptors. For the next lecture in the Bodies of Thought series, curated by Vicky Richardson in partnership with the London School of Architecture, Kohn discusses sculpture and its relationship to architecture. With reference to his latest projects, including the refurbishment of the ICA and a new campus for New College, Oxford, he will explore figurative sculpture in classical architecture and the relationships between sculpture, landscape and architecture explored in post-war land art.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, David Kohn studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and Columbia University, New York. His practice recently completed the new Photography Centre at the V&A and won an international competition to design an apartment building in Berlin. The practice has collaborated with artists on past and ongoing projects including Fiona Banner, Simon Fujiwara and Pablo Bronstein.
‘Bodies of Thought’ lecture series
At the start of the Modern era, Sir John Soane began his first lecture as RA Professor of Architecture by restating the ‘law’ of the RA:
"The student must read much and reflect more. The mind of the student should be impressed with the absolute necessity of close and unremitted attention, of deep and indefatigable research."
In this spirit, the Bodies of Thought lecture series will invite architects to explain how their work has developed alongside a wider body of ideas that has shaped their thinking and practice.
This series is organised in partnership with The London School of Architecture and curated by Vicky Richardson.