The Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi
Department of Architecture Spring 2010 Lecture Series
Lise Anne Couture is a principal of Asymptote Architecture, the New York-based practice that she cofounded with Hani Rashid in 1989. Asymptote is currently working on a broad range of commissions at sites in the United States, Europe, and Asia including a master plan in Bergamo, Italy; two commercial office towers in Budapest, Hungary; and the World Business Center Solomon Tower in Busan, South Korea, a skyscraper that will be among the tallest buildings in Asia. In 2004 Asymptote was chosen as the design firm for the Ninth International Venice Architecture Biennale and was awarded the prestigious Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts in recognition of exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of art and architecture.
Couture is on the faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and has held numerous academic appointments, including the Bishop Chair and Saarinen Chair at Yale University; the Kenzo Tange Chair for architecture at Harvard University; and visiting professorships at Princeton University, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the University of Virginia, l'Université de Montréal, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the University of Michigan, and MIT. Couture received a master of architecture from Yale, in 1986.
Date |
February 17, 2010 |
time |
5:15-7 p.m. |
location |
Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall |
contact |
Lindsay Lavine |
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