Frank Barkow of the Berlin firm Barkow Leibinger Architects will lecturing Monday, March 1^st at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium

Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger founded the Berlin based practice Barkow Leibinger Architects in 1993. Characterized by the interaction of practice, research, and teaching, the firm’s “interdisciplinary, discursive attitude allows its work to expand and respond to advancing knowledge and technology.” Recent designs include a gatehouse and factory-campus event space in Stuttgart, Germany and the TRUTEC Office Building in Seoul, Korea. Pursuing their interest in digitally tooled material, Barkow Leibinger’s recent research projects investigate revolving laser cutting and CNC-cut translucent concrete formwork with an application to facade systems, pre-cast concrete, and ceramic elements.

Barkow Leibinger Architects has been published and exhibited worldwide; drawings and other practice materials are included in collections at the Pompidou Centre, the Deutsches Architektur Museum, and the Heinz Architecture Center, among others. The firm has recently published a book edited by Andres Lepik, MoMA with Hadje Cantz entitled Reflect: Building in the Digital Media City, Seoul. The firm has won numerous AIA Honor Awards and was nominated in 2004 for the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Customer and Administration Building Ditzingen.

Bio:

since 1993 Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin, Germany
2005-06 Guest Professor, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart
2004 Visiting Professor, Harvard Design School, Cambridge Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2003 The Arthur Gensler Visiting Professor of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca
2000 Guest Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
1995-98 Unit Master, Architectural Association, London
1990-92 Visiting Critic, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Rome
1990 Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
1982 Bachelor of Architecture, Montana State University
1957 Born in Kansas City, USA

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