Public Lecture: Holger Kehne – Transformative Tectonics



Public Lecture:
Holger Kehne – Transformative Tectonics

Wednesday, 3 February 2016
B117 Theatre, Basement, Melbourne School of Design

Folding space into space, Plasma draw landscapes into buildings, streets into facades, inside to outside. Transformative tectonics set spaces, planes and bodies into unforseen relationships that challenge discrete conditions, conventional topographies and spatial codes. An architecture of trajectory and momentum, which responds to the specificities of the local context and the possibilities of engagement.

Holger Kehne, co-founder and director of Plasma Studio, will illuminate through projects of a wide range of scales, types and locations; processes and techniques; and forge a tectonics of transformation, conductivity and complexity.

Replacing specificities of scale and type with that of context and affect, Plasma fuses architecture and landscape/urbanism. This fusion enables links global, regional, urban and environmental systems and forces with the sphere of subjective, individual corporeal experience. Plasma seeks to render visible some of the infinite pragmatic and poetic structures and, by extension, evoke a more active participatory environment.

This lecture is a public event offered by the AA Visiting School being held this February in Melbourne.

About Holger Kehne:

Holger Kehne is a director of Plasma Studio and is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

With Plasma Studio, Kehne won the BD/Corus Young Architect of the Year Award and the Hot Dip Galvanising Award in 2002, the Next Generation Architects Award in 2007, the Contract World Award in 2008 and Europe 40 under 40 in 2009.

Additionally Plasma was selected for Architecture Record’s Design Vanguard in 2004 and Arquitectura Viva’s Emergentes in 2007. Its work has been published widely: examples are Phaidon’s 10x10_2 and Atlas of 21st Century Architecture, Taschen’s Architecture Now, the Architectural Review, A=U, Abitare, Architektur Aktuell, Icon, Mark, Wallpaper, the New York Times, the Financial Times, El Pais among many others worldwide.

Kehne’s focus lies in the development and application of form-driven, systemic and material intelligence across a wide range of scales, sites and programmes.

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