We are based in Seattle, WA.
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 six 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, 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, presents a lecture by Chilean architect Mathias Klotz on Monday November 13, 2006 at 6:30 pm in Seattle Central Library Microsoft Auditorium.
Head of the Architecture School of Diego Portales University in Santiago, Klotz builds internationally, publishes widely and lectures frequently. In his own words: "I am a hybrid, grandson of immigrants who arrived in a country in the extreme southwest end of the new world; that is to say, at the southern tip of the end of the world.... "I am interested in belonging to a place that is what my work is about.... I have no idea if I have found a place, but I think there are some projects that do have one: The house for my mother has one by being a meter from the ground; The Reutter House has one by climbing up the trees; The Las Niņas Winery has one by illuminating the industrial space with natural light."
To see and read more, visit MathiasKlotz.com
Lecture tickets are $12 in advance at Peter Miller Architecture and Design Books, 1st and Virginai in Seattle, or via brownpapertickets.com. Remaining tickets will be $15 at the door.
Upcoming Space.City lectures include Xaveer De Geyter (Nov 27) and Mark and Peter Anderson (Dec 11).