\n●Duration is 90 mins with no mins intermission.
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Weiwuying Master Talk Series
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Architecture must appeal to all the senses. Architecture is never a purely intellectual, conceptual, or visual game alone. Architecture is about combining all the individual elements into a single concept. What counts in the end is the arrangement of form and emotion.—Francine Houben Architect/Urbanist
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Award-winning Dutch architect, Francine Houben of Mecanoo, the mastermind behind the largest theater under a single roof, National Kaohsiung Theater for the Arts (Weiwuying) will talk about her design concept— people, place, and purpose— and the aspects interwoven for the newly opened Center. The quest to represent the harbor city, its industries and its people, Francine will include rare footage of the 10-year design and building process in making the national arts center.
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Francine Houben is Founding Partner and Creative Director of Mecanoo architecten. Her work ranges from theatres, museums and libraries to neighbourhoods, housing and parks. Each design is founded on observation of people, location, culture and climate. This analysis amounts to designs that respond to current needs, yet are also prepared for (un)predictable change.
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She holds Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) was granted lifelong membership to Akademie der Künste in Berlin. In 2015, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands presented her the prestigious Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Prize for her entire oeuvre.
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As curator of the First International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, she brought the theme of the aesthetics of mobility to the forefront of international design consciousness. Selected works include the Library Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (1997), La Llotja Theatre and Congress Centre, Lleida, Spain (2008), Library of Birmingham, United Kingdom (2013), Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, Boston, United States (2015), Delft City Hall and Train Station, Netherlands (2017) and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Taiwan (2018).
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Currently, she is working on the renovation of the New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building and Mid-Manhattan Library, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington D.C., USA.
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