The Tenant's Future: re-inscribing the Warburg Institute - Professor Tim Anstey, Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Tuesday 19 Nov 2019, 5:30pm: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
BOOKING: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/20766
From the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg, developed from 1924 to 1926, to the amazing scheme that Aby Warburg and Fritz Saxl worked out for the Hamburg Planetarium, completed in 1930 after Warburg's death; from the re-housing of the Warburg Library at Thames House in London in 1934, and an unbuilt project for a cottage outside London commissioned by Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl in 1935, to the temporary location of the Warburg at the Imperial Institute in Kensington from 1937, and the various schemes for a new building that Saxl, Henri Frankfort and Bing worked on with the University of London between 1945 and 1958, architectural projects occupied the directors of the Warburg Institute during twenty-five out of thirty-four years. In these buildings and interiors, patterns of use were continually invented, re-inscribed and adapted. This lecture provides a slide-show of some of that history and suggests how the experience of earlier environments, and the experience of commissioning them, is built into the design of the Institute's current building on Woburn Square.
Of Buildings and Books: The Oechslin Library and Foundation - Werner Oechslin in conversation with Professor Bill Sherman (Director, Warburg Institute)
Thursday 12 Dec 2019, 5.30pm: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
BOOKING: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/21309
On the occasion of the publication of a comprehensive guide to Architectural Theory in Early Modern Germany, Werner Oechslin joins us to discuss his library and foundation. Created in partnership with ETH in Zurich, and designed by Mario Botta around Oechslin's home in Einsiedeln, the Oechslin Library and Foundation is both an exemplary piece of library architecture and a comprehensive library of books on architecture and other subjects. Werner Oechslin will talk to Prof Bill Sherman (Director of the Warburg Institute) about the creation of this extraordinary institution, followed by a short roundtable discussion to celebrate the publication of Architekturtheorie im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum 1486-1648.
Both events are part of the Director's Seminar Series, which brings leading scholars to the Institute to share new research and fresh perspectives on the key issues in their fields.
Free and open to the public, and followed by a wine reception.
Jon Millington
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