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Jacques Herzog in conversation with Nicholas Serota

27 September 2016 at 19.30–20.50
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Tate Modern Switch House by Marcus Leith, Tate Photography © Tate 2016

Tate Modern Switch House by Marcus Leith, Tate Photography © Tate 2016

Celebrate the opening of the new Tate Modern and join architect Jacques Herzog in conversation with Tate’s Director, Nicholas Serota

Learn about the vision behind this ambitious and extraordinary architectural project, as the speakers reflect on the challenge of creating spaces for art, while also contributing to the development of the urban experience.

The talk is chaired by Oliver Wainwright.

About the speakers

Jacques Herzog

Jacques Herzog was born in Basel in 1950. He studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) from 1970 to 1975 with Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli. He received his degree in architecture in 1975 and became an assistant to Dolf Schnebli in 1977. Jacques Herzog established his own practice with Pierre de Meuron in 1978 in Basel, Switzerland. He was teaching at Cornell University in 1983 and he is a visiting professor at the Harvard University since 1994 (and in 1989). He is a professor at ETH Zurich since 1999, and co-founded the ETH Studio Basel—Contemporary City Institute in 2002. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been awarded numerous awards including The Pritzker Architecture Prize (2001), the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the Praemium Imperiale (2007).

Nicholas Serota, Director

Nicholas Serota has been Director of Tate since 1988. In this period Tate has broadened its field of interest to include twentieth-century photography, film and performance as well as collecting from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He recently co-curated exhibitions at Tate Modern on Cy Twombly and Gerhard Richter as well as Henri Matisse: the Cut Outs. Nicholas Serota was a member of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and of the Olympic Delivery Authority which was responsible for building the Olympic Park in East London for 2012. He is a member of the Executive Board of the BBC. 

Oliver Wainwright 

Oliver Wainwright is the architecture and design critic of the Guardian. Trained as an architect at Cambridge and the Royal College of Art, he has worked for OMA in Rotterdam and at the Mayor of London’s Architecture and Urbanism Unit, and is a regular visiting critic and lecturer at a number of architecture schools.

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27 September 2016 at 19.30–20.50

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