Jürgen Mayer H in lecture

0047 and Kinnarps are proud to present Jürgen Mayer H in lecture

February 1^st, 18:00 at the annual Kinnarpsmessen in Lillestrøm

Jürgen Mayer H. is the founder and principal of J. Mayer H., a cross-disciplinary studio based in Berlin. Since its foundation in 1996, the studio has produced an acclaimed body of work that unites construction and sustainability, urbanity and architectural form. Approaching the interface between architecture, urban planning, art installations and the development of new materials, Mayer’s work uses the relationship between body, nature and technology to form the background for a new production of space.

Among the best-known buildings by J. Mayer H. Architects are the Mensa Karlsruhe at the University of Karlsruhe and Dupli.Casa near Ludwigsburg – two projects whose unusual forms offer insight into the design process, in which, according to Mayer, “the graphic exterior wraps the content of the organizational layout.”

Metropol Parasol, the plan for the comprehensive redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnación in Sevilla currently under construction, exemplifies the Mayer’s aim to restructure the environment in order to create new relations among people and towns.

The innumerable uses of Mayer’s works interact constantly with the user and the observer, who becomes a participant, acting with — or subject to — the architecture. In Heat, an Installation at Henry Urbach Architecture, New York (2005) blurred art, viewer and space by introducing thermo-sensitive coating as interactive paintings.

Jürgen Mayer H. attended the Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and Princeton University and has taught at Harvard University, the Architectural Association in London, and Columbia University in New York, among others. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and it is part of international collections such as MoMA New York and SFMoMA in San Francisco. Mayer has been awarded with numerous prizes, including the Mies van der Rohe Award Emerging Architects Special Mention (2003), the Holcim Awards Bronze Europe (2005) and, the International Architecture Award of the Chicago Athenaeum (2009). In 2010 he received the Audi Urban Award, a competition between six internationally renowned architectural firms for a vision of Cities of 2030.

Informal reception to follow the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to the public but prior r.s.v.p. is requested. For information on how to get to Lillestrøm click here. For more information on this event please also visit Kinnarps website.

Portrait by Jens Passoth.