Dorte Mandrup, "Conditions of Place & Form”

Throughout the last 25 years, Copenhagen-based architect Dorte Mandrup has specialized in projects that require a high degree of consideration and care, balancing pragmatics and creative exploration. For Mandrup, a building’s context is much more than the physical elements that you can see, touch, and feel. It includes the invisible layers of memory, emotion, and identity that give a place meaning. Her architecture is characterized by its attention to context in both spectacular and fragile landscapes, and places grappling with uncomfortable historical events.

In this lecture, Mandrup will discuss the importance of context in the studio’s work, including projects that engage with the yellow-brown marshes of the Wadden Sea, the vast scale of the Arctic, the mythical landscape beneath the surface of the Norwegian Sea, and the difficult memories imprinted on the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin.

Host or Publisher Harvard University Graduate School of Design