About the Event
Please join Rice Architecture for a lecture with Wonne Ickx, Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice Architecture and founding principal at Productora, Mexico City, Mexico on Monday, March 30, at 6:00 p.m. in Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall.
Wonne Ickx’s lecture “Pyramid Schemes” is free and open to the public, as part of the Spring 2020 Lecture Series.
All lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. To register, click here.
Wonne Ickx studied civil engineering and architecture at the University of Ghent, Belgium and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. He continued his studies with a Master of Urban Studies from the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEMET) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2006, he founded PRODUCTORA in Mexico City, together with Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, and Victor Jaime. PRODUCTORA has received many awards for its work, including the Young Architects Forum (2007) and Emerging Voices (2013) by the Architectural League of New York. In 2016, the firm received the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for emerging architects at the IIT and the Oscar Niemeyer Prize for Latin American Architecture. Amongst the many publications of the office, their first monograph by Arquine (2010) and the 2G monograph (2014) stand out. Wonne Ickx has taught architecture and urbanism at Harvard, IIT, UCLA, and several universities in Mexico. He is the founding director of LIGA, Space for Architecture, an independent platform that stimulates an interchange of ideas and investigation on contemporary Latin American architecture in Mexico City since 2011. He has been part of the editorial board of Arquine since 2010.
The Spring 2020 Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the Betty R. and George F. Pierce Jr., FAIA, Fund.
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