Banff
Alberta Association of Architects: Banff Session 2012
April 27 and 28, 2012
Five speakers, including Craig Dykers of Snøhetta and Kim Nielsen of 3XN, explore how cultural differences impact and enhance design decisions and working methods while connecting people to places. How does an architect from Western Europe design a school that the locals adopt as their own for a community in Bangladesh? How does an interior designer create work environments for a corporation to embrace, and even enhance, a corporate culture they are not a part of? In an industry becoming increasingly more globalized, architects and interior designers are working in countries, and among cultures, that are very different from their own. Many times, these projects - museums, memorials, libraries, art galleries and corporate headquarters - hold a special significance in the community. These institutions represent the collective character of a group and how that image is presented to the rest of the world.
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