Noted architect and educator Martin Despang will be
the next guest lecturer of the 2007-2008 academic year sponsored by the Kansas
State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design. He will present
Prosarchitecture
at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, March 31, 2008, in the Little Theater of the
K-State Student Union. The lecture is
open to the public at no charge.
Martin Despang is an architect and educator with an international reputation.
Currently a professor in tectonics and design at the University
of Nebraska at Lincoln,
Martin graduated from the University
of Hannover in Hannover, Germany.
He maintains a practice in Germany,
Despang Architekten. The firm has prepared designs for numerous projects, in
which Professor Despang simultaneously explores the pragmatic and poetical
potentials of normative typologies. Building types designed by his firm include
a host of uses, including single and multifamily housing, kindergartens and
other schools, recreational facilities, transit stations, retail shops, and
commercial and administrative offices.
For their built work, Despang Architekten has been widely recognized and
published. The firm has been named among the “Top 100” creative
German architectural firms and has been honored with numerous awards, among them
the “Emerging Architecture Award” by the Architectural Review for
their EXPO 2000 train station project. More recently they were given the 2004
Lower Saxony States Award for their innovative approach to finding a new
building type for the supermarket.
Work by Despang Architekten has been widely published in the USA, Asia and Europe,
including the prestigious and highly influential Birkhauser series of
construction manuals and their associated journal, Detail, a wonderful resource for architects interested in technical
sophistication and design excellence.
Attendance at the lecture can be submitted as continuing education credit by
design professionals by contacting Diane Potts. This lecture is funded by the
K-State Student Fine Arts Fee.
For more information, contact:
Larry Bowne, 785.532.1174
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090
