THE NEXT CENTURY | GO FLAT OUT

The Fairmont Winnipeg 

Winnipeg,Manitoba

May 28-31,2014

Architecture Canada - RAIC announces the nomination of two internationally respected architects as RAIC honorary fellows for “their audacious realisations in the Canadian urban landscape”. The young architect from Copenhagen, Bjarke Ingerls, authored two unusual skyscrapers: the Telus Sky Tower in Calgary and the Beach & Howe Tower in Vancouver.American architect Antoine Predock designed the Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg. Both recipients will be inducted into the College of Fellows during the Canadian architecture festival, on 28 - 31 May, in Winnipeg. This festival will be a celebration of the present, past, and future on the theme: The next century! Go flat out!

Bjarke Ingels, Hon. FRAIC

Thursday, May 29 – College of Fellows Convocation Ceremony (Keynote Speaker)

Bjarke Ingels started BIG Bjarke Ingels Group in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke has developed a reputation for designing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. Bjarke has received numerous awards and honors, including the Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize in 2011, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal awarded Bjarke the Architectural Innovator of the Year Award. In 2012, the American Institute of Architects granted the 8 House its Honor Award, calling it “a complex and exemplary project of a new typology.” Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. He is a frequent public speaker and has spoken in venues such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street, and the World Economic Forum. 

Antoine Predock, Hon. FRAIC

Wednesday, May 28 – Opening Reception

Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC, which was established in 1967. Predock attended University of New Mexico and later received his Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University. He is a licensed architect in many states as well as a registered landscape architect and interior designer. In 1985, Antoine Predock was awarded the Rome Prize and in 2006 he was honored with the American Institute of Architects highest award, the Gold Medal. Antoine Predock was the 2007 recipient of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Predock first gained national attention with the La Luz community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Nelson Fine Arts center was his first national competition win. Mr. Predock has built from his desert beginnings and completed work ranging from the famed Turtle Creek House, built in 1993 for bird enthusiasts along a prehistoric trail in Texas and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, to a Ballpark for the San Diego Padres that reinvents the concept of a ballpark as a “garden” rather than solely a sports complex. His influence extends to international sites with the National Palace Museum Southern Branch in Southern Taiwan and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights currently under construction in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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