Detour: Art, Architecture, Cities, and Landscapes Symposium
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
4:30 p.m.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Fifth Avenue at 88th Street
2.5 AIA CEU and New York state continuing education credits
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As the closing event to Detour, a traveling exhibition documenting notable architecture and design along 18 Norwegian national tourist routes, this symposium at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum features an afternoon panel with architects and artists from Europe and the United States on the potential of interventions by artists and architects in both rural and urban settings. A reception sponsored by DnBNOR follows. A keynote lecture by Peter Zumthor in the evening will conclude the symposium.

Panel: Craig Dykers, Snøhetta, New York; Einar Jarmund, Jarmund/Vigsnæs, Oslo; Svein Rønning, Artist, Head of the Arts Council for the National Tourist Routes Project, Bergen; and Nader Tehrani, Office dA, Boston; moderated by David van der Leer, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Conversation: Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois Studio; and Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on (public) space and art interventions in relation to The Memorial in Memory of the Victims of the Witch Trials (2010, Varanger, Norway) designed in collaboration with Peter Zumthor.

Keynote Lecture: Peter Zumthor, Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner, Haldenstein, on The Memorial in Memory of the Victims of the Witch Trials (2010, Varanger, Norwat) designed in collaboration with Louise Bourgeois.

Tickets are required. $10; $7 Guggenheim and Architectural League members; free to students and university staff with ID. For more information and tickets visit www.guggenheim.org/detour or call the Guggenheim Box Office Monday through Friday, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at 212.423.3575.

This program is sponsored by The Royal Norwegian Consulate General and presented as part of the public program series organized in collaboration with the Architectural League of New York and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in conjunction with the Detour exhibition at Parsons, The New School for Design.

“Memorial to the Burning of Witches” (2010, Varanger, Norway) in collaboration with Louise Bourgeois. Photo by Peter Zumthor.

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Detour: Group Tour
Nina Berre, Peter Johansson, Hege Lysholm, Barbro Westling, and Knut Wold
Saturday, December 5, 2009
12:30 p.m.
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 5th Avenue at 13th Street
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What can innovative rest stops, information centers, and observation decks tell visitors about a culture? The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design will explore this question when it presents Detour, a traveling exhibition documenting new architecture and design along 18 Norwegian National Tourist Routes. The exhibition’s designers and administrators of the Detour project in Norway will give a detailed look at both the exhibition and the unique collaboration between the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and the architects, artists, and designers, who have been instrumental in creating this stunning and innovative project and partnership.

Peter Johansson and Barbro Westling are the artistic directors and project managers of the Detour exhibition. Since 2004, Johansson has collaborated artistically with Westling in numerous exhibitions, where theatre, performance, and public space projects have been in focus. Nina Berre is Detour project coordinator and director of Norsk Form, the foundation responsible for the administration of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ grant scheme for design and architecture. Knut Wold is a member of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s coordination team for the Detour Project. Hege Lysholm is a communication advisor for the National Tourist Route Project and project manager in Rim Idé & Kommunikasjon.

Detour features photography and architectural models of key works from Norway’s National Tourist Routes Project initiated by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, which encourages designers across the world to propose alternatives to the traditional tourist-route architecture, which tends to value function over aesthetic beauty. The architects and designers make structures that harmonize with the surroundings and reinforce travelers’ appreciation of the great outdoors and unspoiled countryside. A centerpiece of the exhibition is a large viewing chamber that lets visitors peek inside at a film that winds along Norway’s scenic roads and bike paths and explores in detail some of the projects.

The exhibition is presented by Parsons The New School for Design, sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General and presented in collaboration with the Architectural League of New York and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

The exhibition Detour is a collaboration between the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and Norsk Form – The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway with generous support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Innovation Norway.

Reservations are required. Reservations will be given on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 1. Reservations received before 10:00 a.m. on December 1 will not be honored. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

Images: Detour exhibition from its installation in Berlin. Copyright Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Detour: The Architecture of Norwegian Tourist Infrastructure
Panel Discussion
Karl Otto Ellefsen, Ellen Hellsten, Jan Olav Jensen, and Marthe Melbye
Moderated by William Morrish
Friday, December 4, 2009
6:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
Parsons The New School for Design
55 West 13th Street
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Exhibition Opening Reception
Following the lectures at approximately 7:15 p.m.
Exhibition on view December 4, 2009 – January 19, 2010
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 5th Avenue at 13th Street

What can rest stops, information centers, and observation decks tell visitors about a culture? The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design explores this question when it presents Detour, lectures and a traveling exhibition documenting new architecture and design along 18 Norwegian National Tourist Routes.

Detour features photography and architectural models of key works from Norway’s National Tourist Routes Project initiated by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, which encourages designers across the world to propose alternatives to the traditional tourist-route architecture, which tends to value function over aesthetic beauty. The architects and designers make structures that harmonize with the surroundings and reinforce travelers’ appreciation of the great outdoors and unspoiled countryside. A centerpiece of the exhibition is a large viewing chamber that lets visitors peek inside at a film that winds along Norway’s scenic roads and bike paths and explores in detail some of the projects.

The panel discussion will feature participating architects from the Detour project, including Karl Otto Ellefsen, an architect and principal of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, who chaired the Quality Council for Concept and National Considerations, which oversaw the development of the National Tourist Routes Project. Also participating are Jan Olav Jensen of Jensen & Skodvin, Marthe Melbye of PUSHAK, and Ellen Hellsten of Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter. Moderating the discussion is William Morrish, Dean of the School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School for Design.

The exhibition is presented by Parsons The New School for Design, sponsored by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General and presented in collaboration with the Architectural League of New York and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

The exhibition Detour is a collaboration between the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and Norsk Form – The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway with generous support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Innovation Norway.

Admission is free to both the exhibition and the panel discussion; no tickets or reservations required. Seating is first-come, first-served for the panel discussion. AIA and New York state continuing education credits are available for the panel discussion.

Rest Area, Lofoten, Norway, Snøhetta AS

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