{"53429":{"#nid":"53429","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Valerio Olgiati: T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EValerio Olgiati (1958) is fast becoming one of the most important contemporary architects. He has produced a series of head-turning buildings and building proposals that are considered masterpieces of contemporary architecture and have been published widely in the world\u2019s most prominent architectural journals and  monographs. His major projects include the school in Paspels, the Yellow House in Flims, house K+N in Wollerau, the new University in Lucerne, a house in Sari d\u2019Orcino Corsica, a small house in Rottenburg Germany, the project for Lake Cauma in Flims, a house for musician Bardill in Scharans and the museum for the Swiss National Parc in Zernez Switzerland.  Olgiati operates an architecture office in Flims, Switzerland, and he teaches architecture design as a full professor at the Accademia di Architettura, Universit\u00e0 della Svizzera Italiana. He has held visiting professorships at the Architecture Association in London, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He has recently accepted the prestigious Kenzo Tange Chair and Professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ET. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAll lectures at 6:00 p.m. in the newly renovated Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n247 Fourth Street NW\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nContact: Teri Nagel 404-385-2156\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination was established in honor of celebrated Atlanta interior designer T. Gordon Little (1915-2004). The series will celebrate Little\u2019s unwavering pursuit of imaginative design and his remarkable generosity of spirit. Free and open to the public, thanks to a generous grant from the T. Gordon Little Foundation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOlgiati has produced head-turning buildings and building proposals that are considered masterpieces of contemporary architecture and have been published widely in the world\u2019s most prominent architectural journals and  monographs.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Olgiati is considered a master contemporary architect."}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-08-03 10:37:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:50:37","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-11-17T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2009-11-17T18:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-11-17T18:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-11-17 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-11-17 23:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-11-17 23:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"8706","name":"contemporary architecture"},{"id":"2259","name":"Lectures"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=tw117\u0022\u003EContact Teri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-2156\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}