Urban-Think Tank is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design on a variety of subjects, concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism. Alfredo Brillembourg will be presenting as a founding partner of U-TT, jointly invited by the School Talk series of the Wits School of Architecture and Planning, and the Faces of the City seminar series hosted by CUBES, Gauteng City Region Observatory and NRF Chair in Development Planning and Modelling Programme. This invitation reflects a shared interest in, and commitment to re-working the city, through interactions between progressive social change, strategic thinking, and creative design and building, with a particular focus on Johannesburg.
Alfredo Brillembourg completed a Master of Science in Architectural Design in 1986 at Columbia University, and a degree in architecture from the Central University of Venezuela in 1992. In 1993 he founded Urban- Think Tank (U-TT) in Caracas, an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism. Brillembourg has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, where he co-founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) with Hubert Klumpner. Since May 2010, Brillembourg has held the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH) Zürich in Switzerland.
The respondent will be Zahira Asmal, Director of Designing_SouthAfrica.
INFRASTRUCTURE OF SOCIAL SPACES
ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG
URBAN-THINK TANK
SCHOOL TALKS
06 03 2012 16:00 -18:00
A1 JOHN MOFFAT BLDG
