The Art of Architecture - sensing, mediating and communicating immaterial space and material form.
The lecture will evolve around chosen work of Guja Dögg, architect cand.Arch. and writer, with the aim of giving an insight into her interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted art of architecture.
In the short lecture, Guja Dögg will tell of her ongoing quest for a meaningful architecture, her search for subjective meaning in objective material and her belief that architecture is a poetic expression ‘on par’ with literature and other art forms. With a firm focus on research themes such as sensual versus intellectual, experiential versus interpretation, nature versus culture and site versus place, Guja Dögg will travel from her design project Narratives, Continued - writer's retreat at Kleifarvatn, through written project Poetics of Place - writing space, building text, with touch-downs on exhibition project Prefab - artistic expression from one turn of the century to another, to radio essays Architecture in Wide-Scope - cognitive perception and more.
Guja Dögg Hauksdóttir holds a cand.Arch. degree in architecture from the Aarhus School of Architecture in Århus, Denmark. Shortly after her graduation project Narratives, Continued in 1994, she was offered a teaching position in the same school where she was involved in the development of a new department with emissions on interdisciplinary approach of philosophy, ideology, poetry and architecture. Six years later she moved back to her native Iceland and has continued to work with this approach within the framework of research and communication of architecture in a wide scope. Apart from a period of conditions with Icelandic industry and teaching. Concrete Poetry.
Photo: Arnór Kári
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