Engineering Ephemera: Guy Nordenson
The UH College of Architecture Alumni Association continues its tradition of lectures with distinguished engineer Guy Nordenson on Monday, March 1 at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium, 5601 Main Street in the Houston Museum District.
The organizers request that lecture guests enter and exit through either the Audrey Jones Beck Building (Moneo Building) or the Museum Visitors Center/Garage due to a large event already scheduled in the Caroline Weiss Law Building.
Admission to the lecture is free.
Guy Nordenson, prominent New York structural engineer, is currently working with Renzo Piano on the expansion of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. He continues to be an example and partner in collaboration with architects all over the world. Recent collaborations include projects with Steven Holl, Richard Meier, Yoshio Taniguchi and SANAA.
Professional accomplishments include co-founding the Structural Engineers Association of New York, developing New York Seismic Code from 1984 until the law enacted in 1995, co-curating the “Tall Buildings” exhibition at MoMA, he has received numerous awards for his contributions to engineering and to architecture, and was the 2009 William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. A recent project “On the Water-the NY/NJ Upper Bay” won the 2007 AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Research Prize, and will be published in March as “On the Water/Palisade Bay”.
In addition to his practice, Guy Nordenson also teaches. He is professor of architecture and structural engineering at the Princeton University School of Architecture.
The lecture will be followed by a reception and book signing in the Beck Building Lobby.
For more information about the Guy Nordenson lecture and the UH College of Architecture Alumni program, please visit the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture website.
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