Architecture Lecture at Kent State

Tuesday, February 7:  English Lecture Series in Florence. Kent State University, Palazzo Vettori, via Cavour 26. 7 pm.

This speaker is Dan Dorell is one of the three founding partners of DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE in Paris.

Dan Dorell, Lina Ghotmeh and Tsuyoshi Tane opened their office in 20016 after winning the international competition for the Estonian National Museum, a 355-meter-long sloping glass building, recently opened to the public, which rises from the runway of a former Soviet airbase near the city of Tartu. They practice Architecture, Urbanism and Space Design, collaborating with a multicultural team of 14 architects and professionals of interdisciplinary fields.

Dorell’s firm practices architecture, urbanism and space design, and they collaborate with a variety of professionals from engineers, designers, artists or scientists to achieve the client’s vision. His firm has achieved an international reputation through their dedication to cutting edge projects.

Currently, DGT is working with photographer Fouad ElKhoury, designer Johnny Farah, conductor Seiji Ozawa, choreographer Jo Kanamori, fashion designers Yasuhiro Mihara and Akira Minagawa.

The practice’s creative process involves an archaeology of the physical, historical and social traces layered in the project’s place and time. This archaeological process, conducted in the form of in-depth research on the context, on the client’s vision and on the users of the projects, represents an important design tool and becomes an ‘integral’ part of the project that generates the ‘global specificity’ of it.

DGT is today one of the leading practices of the new generation of architects. It was awarded the NAJAP award by the French Ministry of Culture Architecture in 2008 and was nominated for the Ian Chernikhov in 2010.

This event is free and open to the public.  (emma zamec)