Lecture
Location
Cornell in Rome
Palazzo Santacroce
Piazza Benedetto Cairoli 6, 00186 Rome, Italy
Contact
Cornell in Rome
+39 06 689 7070
Abstract
Heike Hanada will reflect on her latest projects against the backdrop of the turmoil of war in our time. Despite all powerlessness, the only way to remain in touch with the vitality of reality may lie in the immediacy of the material and its connections. The directness of the material opens up absolute freedom of being. This is not about the idea of the romantic, but about a fundamental, yet ambivalent concern. The abstract method of tectonic analysis will be transformed into a fragmentary, non-tectonic state.
Biography
Heike Hanada
Heike Hanada completed her studies at the HdK Berlin and then at the University of Tokyo from 1993 to 1999. In 1994, she founded her studio in Tokyo (Hanada+) and in 2007 in Weimar (heike hanada_laboratory of art and architecture). Today she works as an artist and freelance architect in Berlin. Her work gained international recognition in 2007 when she won first prize in the open competition for the extension of the Asplund Library in Stockholm. This was followed by numerous exhibitions, awards, and competition wins. In 2018, she was appointed the Chair of Building Typologies at TU Dortmund University. In 2019, she received the Thuringian Architecture Prize for the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. In 2022, she received the Grand Rome Prize from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo. In 2023, she was appointed to the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Düsseldorf. In 2025, she opened the new entrance area for the Kunst Museum Winterthur Reinhart am Stadtgarten.
