Alexander Tzonis, Delft
Mediterranisms
Vortrag am 25. Januar 2008, 18.30 Uhr
Vortragsraum 242, II. OG, Meiserstraße 10, 80333 München
Prof. Dr. Alexander Tzonis
Alexander Tzonis is professor at Tsinghua University and professor
emeritus at the University of Technology of Delft. He is Director of
Design Knowledge Systems, a multi-disciplinary research centre on
Architectural Cognition. He was educated at Yale University and taught
at Harvard University between 1967 and 1981. He has held visiting
professorships at MIT, Columbia University, the Universities of
Montreal, Strasbourg, Singapore, University of Technology Vienna, the
Technion, Israel, and the College de France. Early in his career, he
worked in the theatre and the movies and was art director of the film
Never on Sunday. In 1990 he published his first novel, a murder story
about problem solving, computation and morality, Hermes and the Golden
Thinking Machine (MIT/Bradford Press). Prof. Tzonis is author of
numerous books and articles. He has been General Editor of the Penguin
Books series of The Man-made Environment, and of the Garland
Architectural Archives which has published the complete archives: of Le
Corbusier (32 volumes), L. Kahn (7 volumes), a Choice Outstanding
Academic Book, Mies van der Rohe (18 volumes), W. Gropius (4 volumes),
Schindler (4 volumes), H. Sauvage (2 volumes). American Institute of
Architects Book Award, A Aalto (12 volumes). He has headed the
organisation of several major international conferences among them:
Automation Based Creative Design Education, May 1992 (a 150th
Anniversary of TU Delft Conference). The Spiritual in Architecture, a
Symposium dedicated to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin by Daniel
Libeskind April 12, 2000, hosted by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix at the
Royal Palace in Amsterdam, under the auspices of the Royal Palace
Foundation. The Mediterranean Landscape, Representation Designs and
Identity, (Van Leer Foundation, Mishkenot Sha’ananim), December 1997,
Jerusalem, The Mediterranean City, (Mishkenot Sha’ananim), May 2002,
Jerusalem.
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