Urban-Think Tank Lecture This Monday at INDA

Alfredo Brillembourg, co-founder of Urban-Think Tank, will give a lecture hosted by INDA on Monday, March 21st from 16:30-18:30 in Room 329 of the Chulalongkorn Faculty of Architecture.  Attendance at this lecture is REQUIRED for this class since the talk will deal with issues directly pertaining to your projects. 

The internationally celebrated work of Urban-Think Tank concerns both theoretical and practical applications within architecture and urban design.  Alfredo and his partner, Hubert Klumpner, founded U-TT in Caracas, Venezuela in 1997 and have since expanded to NYC, Sao Paolo, and Zurich. The firm's focus primarily rests on finding design solutions to bridge between first world industry and third world creativity.  U-TT's on-going film project, Sur Global, examines life in emerging informal settlements around the world.  Their first phase of the Caracas Metro Cable system was completed in 2010 and was featured in the MOMA exhibition Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement. 

Starting in 2007, Brillembourg has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, where he co-founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) with Hubert Klumpner.  They currently hold the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH).