The Architecture Foundation and the Barbican has announced that the Pritzker Prize winning architect, Ryue Nishizawa will headline the 2017 Architecture on Stage programme. In conjunction with the exhibition The Japanese House: Architecture and Life After 1945, architect Ryue Nishizawa will talk about the work of both his own office and that of SANAA, the office he shares with Kazuyo Sejima. 

The youngest architect to win the Pritzker Prize, Nishizawa’s practice ranges from major art museums such as Hiroshi Senjyu Museum to experimental family homes. This is a rare opportunity to hear the architect discussing his pioneering Moriyama House which is presented in the exhibition in an ambitious 1:1 recreation.

The confirmed speakers in the 2017 Architecture on Stage programme are:

Moriyama House by SANAA

Rue Nishizawa, SANAA, March 26th, 2017

Other speakers in the Architecture on Stage programme include Peter Märkli, whose talk will mark the launch of a new monograph on his work and Tom Emerson of the London-based 6a. Both will be lecturing in the Barbican’s Theatre.

Image © Helene Binet 

Peter Salter, January 25th, 2017-Frobisher Auditorium 1 @7pm

Thirteen years in the making, Walmer Yard is a recently completed development of four extraordinary houses in Notting Hill. This remarkable project is the first that Peter Salter has realised in his native Britain and one of very few that this highly influential designer and teacher has completed in the course of his 40-year career. 

Salter will present Walmer Yard before being joined on stage by his client, Crispin Kelly, and associate architect, Fenella Collingridge.

House of Memory. Image courtesy of Chicago Architecture Biennial 

Baukuh, February 15th, 2017 -Frobisher Auditorium 1 @7pm 

Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Andrea Zanderigo, directors of the of the architectural firm Baukuh, will talk about the House of Memory, a recently completed project in Milan. The building provides a home for five associations that maintain archives devoted to different aspects of Italy’s violent mid-20th-century history. 

Photographs from the archives form the basis of a series of images that have been incorporated into the facade through the use of differently coloured bricks. The lecture marks the launch of a book about the project, featuring photographs by Stefano Graziani, who will also participate in the presentation.

Peter Märkli, March 10th, 2017

Image courtesy of José Van Hee Architecten

Marie José van Hee, April 24th, 2017

The programme also features some of the world’s most exciting emerging architects, including Milan’s Baukuh, the Rotterdam-based Monadnock and the Swiss architect, Angela Deuber. The programme launches in January with a presentation by Peter Salter about Walmer Yard, his long gestating development of four houses in Notting Hill. 

Tickets for the Peter Salter and Baukuh lectures are now available via the Barbican box office. Tickets for Peter Markli and Ryue Nishizawa’s lectures will go on sale in mid-January.

School Building in Thal, Switzerland, courtesy of Angela Deuber 

Angela Deuber, September 6th, 2017

Pavilion of Reflection on Lake Zurich. Image courtesy of Studio Tom Emerson

Tom Emerson, 6a. September 18th, 2017

Tom de Paor, October 4th, 2017

Every Day is Like Sunday. Transformation of office parks into living and working spaces. View of the collective. Image courtesy of Dogma 

Pier Vittorio Aureli, November 16th, 2017

Landmark Nieuw Bergen, image courtesy of Monadnock

Job Floris, Monadnock, December 7th, 2017

Further Japanese contributors to the programme will be announced in the New Year. The Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican, presents Architecture on Stage – a programme of talks by the world's leading architects.

Top image: New Art Museum, New York by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA. Image © Dean Kaufman

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