In conversation
Valerie Verhack with Adam Caruso and Freek Persyn
Live-stream from Leuven, Belgium
8 April 2021
Museum Leuven's curator Valerie Verhack in conversation with Adam Caruso and Freek Persyn of 51n4e architects, part of a series of events around the museum's retrospective of the work of Thomas Demand.
The architects discuss the future of museum architecture, their collaborations on unrealised designs for two Belgium institutions, KANAL and M HKA; their collaboration with Thomas Demand; and their approaches to museum design, from the the 'soft' museum, to the 'productive' museum.
Main image: M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, façade detail
Below, from left to right: M HKA exterior and interior, KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, exterior and interior
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Discussion
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Teaching
ETH Zurich Seminar Week: What is Next?
New Material Developments
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
20 October 2020
with Marlise Blaser, Katharina Lehmann, Summer Islam & Paloma Gormley
Adam Caruso will give an online lecture entitled, 'What Future for the City' as part of the 11th DAAD festival in Bratislava, Slovakia. The lecture will be at 20.00 (CET) and will be followed by a conversation with Architect Henrieta Moravčikova. The festival runs from 26 October to 1 November.