Architecture Department Open Studio Tour 4/23

On Thursday, April 23, the KSC Architecture Department will host the AIA New Hampshire’s monthly meeting (the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects), with a tour of the KSC architecture studios, where students will be discussing their year-end projects.

The tour, open to the campus and Keene community, will be followed by dinner and a screening and discussion of the film Bird’s Nest – Herzog & de Meuron in China. (Pre-registration is required for the dinner and film.) This film chronicles the five-year effort by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games’ brand new, 100,000-seat National Stadium, as well as their design for a new city district in Jinhua, involving hotel, office, and residential buildings. Both projects involved complex and often difficult negotiations and communications between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and two political systems. For more information, contact Peter Temple.