‘The Immeuble Cité’

08.02.11, 7 p.m. Uhr Mehrzwecksaal Neubau IIState Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

Elia Zenghelis, 1937 born in Athens, studied and taught for 20 years at the Architectural Association in London and in numerous well-known international Universities and still teaches at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He is one of the original founders of OMA in partnership with Rem Koolhaas until 1987, when he established Gigantes Zenghelis Architects in Athens and Brussels with Eleni Gigantes. He was awarded the RIBA Annie Spink Award for outstanding contribution to architectural education in 2001. Architecture is the servant of political authority; within a post-graduate framework it is legitimate to re-examine and question the tenets of current global political structures and to project alternative models. The main purpose of such inquiries would be to encourage young architects to be harbingers of the future.