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Organized by a handful of volunteers and registered as a not-for-profit organization, Space.City is an independent architectural group.
Our focus and purpose is to inspirit a dialogue among architects, artists, and others involved in the culture of our city.
As an information hub for Seattle's architectural community and to keep our community active, Space.City maintains an email list to communicate local arts and architecture events. By this network we support Seattle's other architectural groups and design organizations -- A:BC (Action Better City), AIA and AIGA, Cornish, DocoMomo, Henry Gallery and other museums, Suyama Space and other alternative galleries, Seattle Architecture Foundation, and UW School of Architecture. We welcome new members and encourage involvement. Subscription is free. Join us.
Space.City has a ten year history of hosting architectural lectures and other cultural events in Seattle. Since our formation in 1997, Space.City has presented talks by more than a dozen artists and architects whose ideas and contributions cover the spectrum of creative and critical thinking today. The colorful list includes Tadao Ando, Cecil Balmond, Shigeru Ban, Gunther Behnisch, Alison Brooks, Yung Ho Chang, Brad Cloepfil, Rafael Fajardo, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Carlos Jimenez, Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Toyo Ito, Mathias Klotz, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Eric Owen Moss, Anthony Pellecchia, Gaetano Pesche, Jesse Reiser, Michael Riedijk, Lindy Roy, Brigitte Shim, Werner Sobek, John Stamets and William Zahner. We have also hosted numerous informal discussion 'salons', three urban design forum with Seattle's former mayor Paul Schell, and two panel style symposia, "Libraries of the Future" and "Surrogate Bodies".
Space.City works in partnership with Suyama Space. We thank Peter Miller Books, Greg Bishop, NBBJ, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, 4Culture, and the Allen Foundation for the Arts for their continued support.
Space.City, Seattle's Art and Architecture Forum, presented a lecture by Belgian architect Xaveer DeGeyter on Monday November 27, 2006 at 6:30 pm in Seattle Central Library Microsoft Auditorium.
De Geyter worked with Rem Koolhaus at OMA for ten years in the 90's, when there were only 6 people in the office, working for many years on a house in Paris, Villa Dall'Ava.
He still collaborates with OMA on competitionsÊ and was one of the guides in France for the Seattle Public Library interview team when they traveled to see OMA's work in Europe. Xaveer took the Seattle group through the Lille projects by OMA.
While DeGeyter did not work on our library, he worked on several OMA projects – such as the Jussieu University library in Paris, which preceded it and had similar ideas – the ramp system and the angled projected wall planes. When he toured our library upon his arrival, he was delighted to see that Seattle was able to build something as demanding at the library is. He also observed that it was one of the best executed and built projects he had seen by OMA.
DeGeyter has an office in Brussels with 25 staff and is working on two competitions, one in Paris for social housing, and an invited competition for a new art and architecture school building in Jerusalem. Ê He frequently works in Paris, where it is only a 90 minute high speed train ride, and reports that Brussels has become one of the most competitive cities in Europe for landing business of all types.ÊHe will be teaching architecture part time in Berlin next year.
This was his first visit to Seattle, and was last in the US in 2004 when he lectured at Cornell and Princeton. ÊDe Geyter followed next to Vancouver, where he is well known and strongly admired, and then on to a lecture at MIT.
To see and read more, visit xdga.com