Art & Architecture Conference 2018

What makes a great space for art? How might we live with art differently?

Frieze Academy announces the full-day schedule for the third annual Art and Architecture conference. Hear from the influential architects behind some of the world’s leading cultural projects, including Shigeru Ban, Jamie Fobert, Ellen van Loon, Richard Rogers and Kulapat Yantrasast, as well as artists Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Andrea Zittel, whose long-term projects interrogate private realms and collective experience. 

This is a must-attend event for anyone curious to discover how the design and function of cultural institutions are evolving globally, and the impact of art on where and how we live.

Conference Schedule:

10am  
Richard Rogers and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will speak about Paris’s iconic Centre Georges Pompidou, designed by Rogers and Renzo Piano, which redefined museum typology when it was built 41 years ago.

10:45am 
Artist Andrea Zittel discusses A–Z West with frieze deputy editor Amy Sherlock. An evolving collection of workshops, studios, sleeping pods, cabins and permanent sculptural installations on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, California, A–Z West is part of the artist’s long-term enquiry into how we live and how we might live differently.

11:45am 
Jamie Fobert will speak about his major commissions for cultural institutions such as the extension to Tate St Ives in Cornwall, which was recently awarded the Art Fund’s annual Museum of the Year prize, a reconfiguration of Cambridge’s Kettle’s Yard and a £35.5m redevelopment of the National Portrait Gallery. He will be in conversation with NPG director, Dr Nicholas Cullinan.

12:30pm 
OMA partner Ellen van Loon will focus on a selection of the firm’s cultural projects—including the recent addition to Milan’s Prada Foundation and the Danish Architecture Center’s new home on the Copenhagen waterfront, as well as revisiting her now-iconic Casa da Música in Porto.

2pm 
Artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas and critic and curator Joseph Grima will talk about Kulendran Thomas’ New Eelam, an ongoing work in the form of a real-estate start-up, which proposes a flexible, global housing subscription based on collective co-ownership rather than private property.

2:45pm 
wHY founder and creative director Kulapat Yantrasast will discuss his designs for commercial galleries, institutional spaces and private museums—including David Kordansky Gallery, San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum and the Marciano Art Foundation, which opened last year in a former masonic temple.

3:45pm 
Shigeru Ban, Pritzker Architecture Prize winner in 2014, will discuss recent and upcoming cultural projects, including Fujinomiya’s Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre and La Seine Musicale.  

Tickets
Student tickets are available.
Further information and tickets: frieze.com/academy

The Frieze Academy Art and Architecture 2018 conference is supported by Official Global Partner LIFEWTR, Associate Partner Cork Street Galleries and Media Partner Financial Times.