BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11030@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240125T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240125T193000 DTSTAMP:20260123T141716Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/caa-lecture-2024-swanson-lecture / SUMMARY:2024 Annual Swanson Public Lecture: Flores & Prats Architects - Emo tional Heritage DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, January 25 for the 2024 Annual Swanson Le cture. This year’s lecture will be presented by Flores &\; Prats Arch itects. The lecture will be held in deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Mu seum and is free and open to the public.\n\nAccording to Flores &\; Pra ts\, it is not only people that contain the memory of a place\, the buildi ngs too are loaded with memories of the uses and lives that occupy them\; the built fabric is a reflection of social behaviour. It speaks of a way o f using the ground\, the sky\, as a way of inhabiting. To read the memory held in buildings and people is to think about a future that counts on tha t past.\n\nWhen a building is closed and abandoned\, it remains alive in t he memories of those who live around it. The abandoned building is embedde d with the civic and moral values that time has given it through its use\, containing the stories of the people who experienced the place over the y ears and have created an invisible constellation of social relationships t hat expand the influence of this construction to a universe around it\, in cluding to those that may form future associations with its materiality an d story.\n\nRecuperating and reusing an existing construction is to consid er that it is part of an emotional heritage as much as a physical heritage \, and an effort should be made to keep these memories inside the building . This is a design decision of major ideological importance because for us the idea of patrimony has nothing to do with what is valuable or monument al\, it does not come from ‘pater’\, it cannot be imposed from above\, but instead arises from time and experience\, from what is radically coll ective.\n\nAbout Eva Prats &\; Ricardo Flores \n\nEva Prats (Barcelona \, 1965) is an Architect for the School of Architecture of Barcelona\, and Doctor in Architecture for the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RM IT. Ricardo Flores (Buenos Aires\, 1965) is an architect for the Universi ty of Buenos Aires\, Master in Urban Design and Doctor of Architecture for the School of Architecture of Barcelona. In 1998 Eva and Ricardo establis hed Flores &\; Prats Architects\, an architectural studio dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice with design and constru ction activity. The practice has worked throughout Europe on projects of adaptive reuse\, social housing\, and urban public spaces with neighbours ’ participation.  \n\nFlores &\; Prats has received several nation al and international awards\, including the Grand Award in Architecture a t the Royal Academy of Arts of London 2009\, the City of Barcelona Award 2016\, the City of Palma Award 2017\, the AD Architects of the Year 2018\, and the AR New into Old Award 2019. In addition\, Eva has been nominated for the Women in Architecture 2019\, awarded by the British magazines The Architectural Review and Architect’s Journal. The studio has also been n ominated for the Mies van der Rohe Awards on several occasions\, and exhib ited in the last five editions of La Biennale di Venezia\, including 2023 with their proposal ‘Emotional Heritage’ at Le Corderie dell’Arsenal e. \n\nBesides their professional practice\, Eva and Ricardo have been Pr ofessors of Design Studios at the School of Architecture of Barcelona si nce 2002\, and Eva Prats has been a Full Professor at the Accademia di Arc hitettura di Mendrisio since 2023. \n\nThe annual Swanson lecture is spo nsored by the J. Robert F. Swanson Fund.\n\nThe J. Robert F. Swanson Lectu re Fund at Cranbrook Academy of Art was established in 1983 by the family of J. Robert F. Swanson\, a noted architect who was also the son-in-law of Eliel Saarinen. Each year\, the Swanson Lecture brings to the Cranbrook campus architects\, designers\, artists\, or scholars who have receiv ed critical acclaim for their work and enjoy a sustained record of excel lence and achievement in their respective fields.  J. Robert F. Swanson and his wife and lifelong design partner\, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson\, fou nded their firm Swanson Associates in 1947 and worked on many exteriors an d interiors\, including residences\, schools\, universities\, churches\, a irports\, banks\, government\, industrial and commercial projects. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2023/12/5.-Headshot_Flores-Prats.-Photo-Cesar-Lucadamo.webp CATEGORIES:Lectures + Talks LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bl oomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bloom field Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cranbr ook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR