I just got news about the Berlage Institute’s lec­ture series this term. It’s start­ing rather late, but as always impresses with a highly pro­filed list of speak­ers. It’s the pat­tern we all know and love: A few well known names mixed with a bunch of people maybe less known but def­i­nitely worth noticing.

Here’s the details:

Prac­tic­ing archi­tect and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at Ohio State Uni­ver­sity. Author of ‘Small Buildings’ and ‘Strange Details’, a ‘lively and uncon­ven­tional appre­ci­a­tion of piv­otal build­ings by Carlo Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn that reveals enough idio­syn­crasies and con­ceits to make any ratio­nal­ist shudder’ (MIT Press)

of the well known Rot­ter­dam prac­tice NeutelingsRiedijk

Founders of Man­silla + Tuñón Arqui­tec­tos, Madrid (check their design for the Museum of Automotion)

Founders of Grafton Archi­tects, Dublin

of Abalos Her­reros, Madrid. May we call him the thinker of this office? (No offense, Juan!)

of BevkPer­ovic, Ljubl­jana. One of the most inter­est­ing offices in balkan Switzerland.

Do we even have to link to UN Studio? Anyway, it will be inter­est­ing to hear what his idea of the future Berlage Insti­tute is, now that he’s part of acad­e­mias new boygroup.

Well, to be honest, I don’t know… Wikipedia list him as an Amer­i­can banker who served as the 70th United States Sec­re­tary of the Trea­sury during both the first and second Clin­ton Admin­is­tra­tions. Appar­ently that same Robert Rubin has bought the Maison de Verre in Paris by Pierre Chareau and has ren­o­vated it in painstak­ing effort. Might be him….

Sorry for Wikipedia again: ‘Weiss/Manfredi, is an archi­tec­tural firm head­quar­tered in New York City, founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Man­fredi. Weiss cur­rently teaches at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia School of Design.’

We’ll find out more when the offi­cial poster includ­ing lec­ture titles will be out. Please note that this pro­gram is preliminary…
Lec­tures will usu­ally start at 19:00.
For reser­va­tion con­tact Lenny at the recep­tion one day before under: +31 (0) 104030399

See you there!

ps: the dates are cor­rected and now also in the cal­en­dar: sub­srcibe your iCal to this.