Guggenheim supplementary programme focuses on museum architecture of the future
05.09.2014
The Guggenheim Helsinki Architectural Competition provides an opportunity for presenting new ideas. Aalto University is organising supplementary programme in cooperation with the Guggenheim Foundation.
‘Architecturally, this is an interesting project. Designing a cultural building for a location that is important in terms of cityscape is a rare opportunity and a challenging assignment for an architect, and the competition has already aroused considerable international attention,’ explains Pirjo Sanaksenaho, Professor in Building Design at Aalto University.
In practice, various architecture events will be organised, such as lectures intended for students as well as public events. At these events architectural requirements of future museums are discussed from the perspective of visitors' expectations, social and technological aspects and artistic development.
For Aalto University, cooperation with the Guggenheim Foundation provides an opportunity to attract international architects, such as members of the competition jury and other experts, as lecturers.
‘We want to be part of an interesting project and generate discussion and opportunities that help architecture to move forward,’ Sanaksenaho adds.
The architecture events organised by Aalto University and the Guggenheim Foundation support the Museum of the Future course aimed at architecture students, starting in September. The members of the competition jury and other experts will hold lectures for students of the Department of Architecture during the autumn. At the course, the students will be given the task of designing a new type of museum building in Helsinki.
Further information:
Professor Pirjo Sanaksenaho, pirjo.sanaksenaho [at] aalto [dot] fi, tel. +358 50 571 4900