ICD Expert Lecture SS 2011
12.05.2011 - 19.00 pm
Hörsaal 4.08, K1, 4.OG
Keplerstrasse 11, 70174 Stuttgart
George L. Legendre graduated from the GSD in 1994 and served as lecturer and Assistant Professor of Architecture there from 1995 to 2000. Prior to founding the London-based IJP Corporation, he was visiting Professor at Princeton University, ETH Zurich, and the AA School of Architecture. IJP explores the natural intersection between space, mathematics, and computation. To date it has won a competition to cover a central London Street with 1000M2 of steel and glass, completed Henderson Waves, a 1000-foot-long bridge located in Singapore, as well as the Bat House, a high-tech, sustainable shelter in West London. In 2007, the influential magazine Building Design elected the 3-year-old firm as one of the top 5 practices in Britain led by principals under the age of 40. The work of IJP has been featured on the cover feature of AA Files 57, the RIBA Journal, and Icon Magazine (London). A regularly published essayist, he has written IJP:The Book of Surfaces, as well as Bodyline: the End of our Meta-Mechanical Body, and a Critical essay in Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle (AA Publications).