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Built Environment 2012 Utzon Lecture Series

Built Environment’s Utzon Lecture Series was officially launched in 2010 by Jan Utzon, former UNSW student and son of the renowned Danish architect Jørn Utzon.  Held on a regular basis at the UNSW’s Kensington campus, the Utzon Lecture Series focuses on the presentation and discussion of ideas, issues and perspectives in the design, delivery and management of the built environment.  Click here for the 2012 program.

This year Built Environment will host a series of speakers who are leading contributors of national and international significance.  These speakers include: Richard Johnson MBE, Architect, of Johnson Pilton Walker; Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE QC, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and former UNSW Chancellor; Professor Deo Prasad, international authority on sustainable buildings and cities; Hiroshi Sambuchi, Sambuchi Architects Japan; Oliver Kratzer, National President Design Institute/Managing Director Ideal Industrial and Mark Armstrong, Blue Sky Group; Michael Neuman, Professor Faculty of Built Environment UNSW; Greg Deas, Lend Lease; James Weirick, Professor Faculty of Built Environment UNSW; and Marion Weiss & Michael Manfredi of Weiss Manfredi, the NYC-based multi-disciplinary design practice.

21 March Utzon Lecture
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On 21 March, Built Environment will be hosting the second lecture in its 2012 Utzon Lecture Series.  The lecture is being given by award-winning Japanese architect Hiroshi Sambuichi of Sambuichi Architects (Hiroshima).

Hiroshi Sambuichi



Born in 1968. Graduated from Architecture and Building Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science. After working at Shinichi Ogawa & Architects he established Sambuichi Architects. 



In his first 10 years of independent practice about 25 projects have been completed, their conception emerging from meticulous studies of the specific local energyscapes. Using both inert and moving materials he strives to create architecture as details of Earth. Notable projects include Miwa-gama (2002), Sloping North House (2003), Stone House (2005),  Base Valley (2007), Inujima Art Project Seirensho (2008) and Rokko Shidare Observatory (2010). He has received numerous awards including the Shinkenchiku prize (for Air House, 2001), the Detail Prize; Special Prize (for Miwa-gama, 2005), and both the JIA Grand Prix by Japan Institute of Architecture and the AIJ Prize by Architectural Institute of Japan (both for Inujima Art Project Seirensho, 2011) and from 2011, has served visiting professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture.

Date: Wednesday 21 March, 2012

Refreshments: 6.00pm-6.45pm Red Centre West Wing Gallery, UNSW Kensington campus

Lecture: 7.00pm – 8.30pm

Venue:  Lecture Theatre M17

Chemical Sciences

UNSW Kensington Campus
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Entry: Free

Open to: Public

Register your interest by emailing utzonlecture@unsw.edu.au or phone (02) 9385 4800