The SAM continues its popular series of double lectures with two incisive architectural positions on the burning issues of the day: sustainability, resilience and sufficiency.
Jeanne Gang is one of the most important voices in contemporary North American architecture. Together with her more than 100 collaborators in her Chicago office, she uses new combinations of materials and constructive-technical solutions to explore new possibilities for resource-conserving approaches to building – both in new construction and renovation.
Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş from Studio SO? in Istanbul curated the Turkish Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale, which received a lot of attention. Titled "Ghost Stories: The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture," the exhibition documents a wide variety of abandoned buildings across the country. With an exhilarating spatial scenography of printed fabric hanging from the ceiling they show how long-abandoned buildings can be brought back to life and provide a new perspective for the future of a country ravaged by severe earthquakes and an ongoing economic crisis.
