thomas heatherwick at the parsons table with paul goldberger

WHAT:

In this intimate, one-on-one conversation, Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning architectural critic and Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at Parsons, will engage Heatherwick on his life and work.

WHO:

Thomas Heatherwick, CBE, RDI, FRIBA, is a British designer whose prolific and varied work over two decades is characterised by its ingenuity, inventiveness and originality. Defying the conventional classification of design disciplines, Thomas founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring the practices of design, architecture, sculpture and urban planning together in a single workspace.

Based in London, Heatherwick Studio is currently working in four continents on projects valued at over £2 billion. Its international reputation is founded on projects such as the London Olympic Cauldron, the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and the award-winning Learning Hub at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. Current projects include the Garden Bridge in London and the Shanghai Bund Finance Centre (a 50/50 collaboration with Foster + Partners.) Over in the USA, the studio is working on a new park and performance space in the Hudson River, a public landmark for the Hudson Yards redevelopmentand the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California (in collaboration with BIG).

Paul Goldberger is now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011 he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism.

WHEN:

Thursday, December 1st from 6:00-8:00pm in The Auditorium at 66 W. 12 St.

The event is free, but members of the press must RSVP with Will Wilbur.