Lecture date: 2012-01-20
DRL Keynote Lecture (Day 2)
Diaz Alonso is the principal and founder of Xefirotarch, a practice base in Los Angeles. He is the Graduate Programs Chair and has served for the past several years as Distinguish Professor of Architecture and the Graduate Thesis Coordinator at SCI-Arc. He was a design studio professor at Columbia University GSAPP, and is the head studio professor in the ‘Excessive’ post-graduate program at the Universitat fur angewandte Kunst in Wien, Austria. He was recently honoured by Yale University with the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship of Architectural Design for fall 2010.
Diaz Alonso has lectured widely in major institutions worldwide. His architecture designs have received numerous awards and have been exhibited in both architecture and art museums exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, Archilab, and London Biennale. His work has been widely published in the major magazines and periodicals worldwide and multiple books, including the Monograph “Excessive”, his next monograph is schedule to be publish in 2012 by Thames and Hudson. His work was the subject of the solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, the Art Institute in Chicago; MAK centre in Vienna in 2007 and is schedule for a solo show at the Pompidou Centre in 2013.In 2005 was the winner of the PS1 MoMa, New York, Young architect Program’s Pavilion. His work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC Centre, the San Francisco MoMa, Art Institute of Chicago, MAK centre in Vienna, TB 21 in Vienna and the New York MoMa.
Diaz Alonso has lectured widely in major institutions worldwide. His architecture designs have received numerous awards and have been exhibited in both architecture and art exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, Archilab and London Biennale. His work has been published widely in major magazines and periodicals internationally and in many books, including the Monograph Excessive. Hiis next monograph is forthcoming in 2012 from Thames and Hudson. His work has been the subject of the solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006; the Art Institute in Chicago; MAK centre in Vienna in 2007; and is scheduled for a solo show at the Pompidou Center in 2013. In 2005 he was the winner of the PS1 MoMa, New York, Young Architect Program’s Pavilion. His work is represented in permanent collections at the FRAC Center, the San Francisco MoMa, Art Institute of Chicago, MAK centre in Vienna, TB 21 in Vienna and the New York MoMa.
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