Join us for the Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture delivered by Victor Meesters and Tom Schoonjans (Rotor) followed by a conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos (GSAPP, Jorge Otero-Pailos Studio).
Founded in Brussels in 2005, Rotor fosters debate on questions related to resources, waste and obsolescence in the building sector through applied research projects, exhibitions, conferences and publications. Representing Belgium at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennial in 2010, their exhibition Usus/Usures explored wear as a reaction to use and a potentially creative architectural process. In 2013 they curated the Oslo Architecture Triennale, including a vast exhibition on the challenges facing ’sustainable’ architecture today, Behind the Green Door. In parallel with these exhibition projects, Rotor continued to realize various design projects, often interventions in existing architecture. This work has its equivalent in a growing series of deconstruction projects in which Rotor Deconstruction, a separate, spin-off entity created in 2015, oversees the dismantlement of building components, in buildings slated for demolition, for reuse purposes. Rotor’s work was rewarded with the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, awarded under the patronage of UNESCO. Since 2018, Rotor is leading Interreg NWE programmes (FCRBE and PREUSE) which aims to increase 50% of reused element circulation within the construction sector in Europe.
The Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture celebrates the legacy of Paul S. Byard, Director of Historic Preservation at Columbia GSAPP from 2000-2008. The lecture has previously been given by Annabelle Selldorf, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Cruz y Ortiz, Francine Houben, and Nieto Sobejano among others.
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