Speaker Guy Nordenson

Date 15.09.2014

Time 12:30

Location Exhibition Zones F, 1/F, School of Architecture CUHK

Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor at Princeton University. He practiced structural engineering in San Francisco and New York and in 1987 established the New York office of Arup and was a director until 1997 when he began his independent practice. Current projects include the expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston with Steven Holl and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington with David Adjaye and Phil Freelon.

His research project “On the Water | Palisade Bay” won the 2007 AIA Latrobe Prize, was published in 2010, and served as the inspiration for the MoMA workshop and exhibition “Rising Currents”.

His research team at Princeton is leading a Rockefeller Foundation funded project including teams from Harvard University, City College of New York and The University of Pennsylvania to develop “Structures of Coastal Resilience” in collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers.