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-facetted 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, experiencing versus interpreting, nature versus culture and site versus place, Guja Dögg will traverse 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 emphasize on interdisciplinary approach of philopsophy, ideology, poetry and architecture. Six years later she moved back to her native Iceland and has continued to work with this approach within the frame of research and communication of architecture in a wide scope. Apart from a period of six years as the head of the architecture department at the Reykjavik Art Museum, she has mainly been working on a free-lance basis, dividing her time between independent research, artistic creation in local and international context and teaching. She is currently working on a biography of a prominent Icelandic architect with the title Concrete Poetry.

Photo: Arnór Kári

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