Architect and educator Wilfried Wang will lecture at the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design. He will present

St. Petri Church, Klippan by Sigurd Lewerentz:
The Transcendence of Architecture

on Wednesday, October 29, at 6:00 p.m. in the Little Theatre of the K-State Student Union. The event is open to the public without charge.

Wilfried Wang is the O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. With Barbara Hoidn, he is founder of Hoidn Wang Partners, Berlin, Germany.
 
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Wang studied architecture in London. From 1989 to 1995 he was in partnership with John Southall. Together with Nadir Tharani, he was founding co-editor of 9H Magazine (1979-1995), with Richard Burdett he was co-director of the 9H Gallery (1985-1990), and director of the German Architecture Museum (1995-2000).
 
He taught at the Polytechnic of North London, University College London, the ETH Zurich, the Städelschule, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and at the University of Navarra.
 
Wang is the author of essays, monographs and topographs on the architecture of the 20th-century.
 
Together with Kevin Alter, Michael Benedikt and Barbara Hoidn, he is a co-editor of the O’Neil Ford Monographs and the O’Neil Ford Duographs. Together with Barbara Hoidn, he is the co-editor of the German government annual architectural journal Building and Space.

He chairs the board of the Erich Schelling Architecture Foundation and of the design review board of Wismar, as well as a member of the design review board of Munich Airport. He is a member of CICA, an honorary member of the Federation of German Architects and of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

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:
Peter Magyar, 785.532.5953
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090