five themes millennium - Politecnico di Milano

MILLENNIUM
Meeting Architecture by Italcementi
FIVE THEMES
Louisa Hutton
Thursday April 7th / 12,00 pm
Aula T.1.3 (primo piano) Edificio Trifoglio
Via Bonardi, 9 / Politecnico di Milano
© Sauerbruch Hutton
FIVE THEMES / Louisa Hutton
Thursday April 7th / 12,00 pm
Aula T.1.3 (primo piano) Edificio Trifoglio
Via Bonardi, 9 / Politecnico di Milano
Louisa Hutton is an architect and founding partner of Sauerbruch Hutton. She was a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate
School of Design. She previously taught at the Architectural Association in London and was external examiner at various
universities in the UK. She is a member of the Curatorial Board of the Schelling Architecture Foundation, and was a
Commissioner at CABE and a member of the Steering Committee for the Germany’s Federal Foundation for Baukultur.
Louisa is a Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Royal Academician of Arts. Louisa Hutton and
Matthias Sauerbruch received the Erich Schelling Prize for Architecture in 1998 and the Fritz Schumacher Prize for
Architecture in 2003, the International Honor Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2010 and the Gottfried-SemperArchitekturpreis 2013. For the Immanuel Church in Cologne Sauerbruch Hutton was awarded the national German
Architecture Award 2015. Sauerbruch Hutton currently has projects under construction in various European countries,
among which the M9 Museum for the 20th Century in Venice-Mestre.
Incontri Millennium is a series of lectures organized with Italy’s leading universities, where the top names in contemporary
architecture meet students aspiring to be the architects of the future.
The goal of Incontri Millenniumis to articulate the technological quality of cement with the aesthetic dimensions of
today’s great masters and Italy’s young students. For the initiative, which began in 1997, Italcementi has involved the
leading university faculties of architecture and the most distinguished names in the profession.
After a reflection on the lecture of Alvar Aalto, Incontri Millennium has gradually examined the design worlds and poetics
of Richard Meier, Enric Miralles, Dominique Perrault, Steven Holl, Raimund Abraham, Nicholas Grimshaw, Mario Botta,
Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Frank O. Gehry, Peter Eisenmann, Eric Owen Moss, Boris Podrecca,
Patrick Tighe, Rocco Yim and Atsushi Kitagawara.
Thanks to Incontri Millennium, more than 10,000 students have had the opportunity for a direct encounter with the
cultural values and imprint of today’s leading architects.