RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Art Museum!

10.24.2005

Art Museum!

I work about 2 blocks from the Akron Art Museum. Just about once a week I do a drive by of the new museum that's been taking shape over the past year. It's been a fun ride watching the musuem go from a hole in the ground to a crazy amalgamation of I-beams and cinder blocks and begin to resemble a kick-ass structure. If you're like me and are getting a kick out of seeing the new building go up, you might enjoy hearing about the building from one of the architects at the event below

Have you been driving by the Akron Art Museum construction site, peering out of your window in order to catch a glimpse of the new museum taking shape? Now is your chance to learn more about the building from one of its creators. On Thursday, November 3 at 6:30 pm, the Akron Art Museum is pleased to present preeminent architect Wolf Prix to speak at the Akron-Summit County Public Library.

Prix co-founded Coop Himmelb(l)au, the Viennese architectural firm that designed the new Akron Art Museum building, in 1968 with Helmut Swiczinsky. The firm has won a number of awards in the United States and Europe, including the German Architecture Prize in 1999, and most recently, the competition for design of the headquarters for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. The firm is also known for its adaptive re-use of historical buildings, such as the “Gasometer” project in Vienna, which converted a 19th century industrial structure into a functional working and living space.

Born in 1942 in Vienna, Austria, Wolf Prix was educated at the Technical University of Vienna, the Architectural Association of London and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Along with his role in Coop Himmelb(l)au, Prix has served as the professor of Architecture Masterclass at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 1993. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Architectural Association in London and Harvard University as well as an adjunct professor at UCLA and faculty member at Columbia University since 1998. Prix is a permanent member of the Austrian Art Senat. He is also a member of the Architectural Associations of Austria, Germany and Santa Clara, Cuba.

The lecture will take place in the auditorium of the main Akron-Summit County Public Library in downtown Akron, 60 S. High Street. Parking is free in the adjoining High Street deck for visitors entering after 6 pm. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door and will cost $5.00 for Akron Art Museum members and students with I.D., $10.00 for non-members. Payment may be made by cash, check, Visa or Mastercard.

(joe :: Art Museum!)

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