[ Lecture Title ]
Places for People
[ Speaker ]
Robert Greenwood
Partner, Director Asia Pacific at Snøhetta
Cheng Gong
Studio Director China at Snøhetta
[ Time ]
18:30 - 20:30
Oct.21, 2024 (Monday)
[ Venue ]
The Bell Hall, Building B,
College of Architecture and Urban Planning,
Tongji University
Snøhetta is a transdisciplinary, dialogue-driven practice including architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, art, product design, graphic and digital design, often integrating a combination of interests across projects. Snøhetta has realized many international acclaimed works around the globe since 1989, such as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, 1989-2001), Norwegian National Opera and Ballet (Oslo, 2000-2008), The National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion (New York City, 2004-2014), Beijing Library (Beijing, 2018-2023), Shanghai Grand Opera House (Shanghai, 2017-2025), and among others.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, photo by Gerald Zugmann
Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, photo by Jens Passoth
The National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, photo by Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Beijing Library, photo by Zhu Yumeng
Shanghai Grand Opera House, image by MIR
Our work strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit.
– Snøhetta
Every two years, the entire Snøhetta team will head to the mountain in Norway called Snøhetta
Snøhetta shares the name with a beautiful, remote, and historically important mountain in central Norway. It is a place nobody is from, but anyone can experience. Creating places for societies to connect with each other and with the world around them is a primary motivation in Snøhetta’s work. Dialogue and diversity empower this approach.
Robert Greenwood and Cheng Gong are invited to give a lecture titled “Places for People” at 6.30pm on Oct 21 at Tongji CAUP, sharing Snøhetta’s design practice and core values. This lecture is free and open to the public. Please use ID card to enter the campus.