Recent Lecture: Roger Duffy
Mon Jan 27, 6pm @ EMPAC
“S.O.M. An Evolving Legacy.”
Roger Duffy is an American architect, known “for rigorous and unconventional approach to design” [Metropolis magazine]. He currently works as a partner at the renown firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. He has been a design partner in the New York office since 1995, and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the League Circle of the Architectural League of New York. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979.
Roger Duffy brings [to S.O.M] his unique sense of the conjoining of art, science, landscape, and architecture to all of his design work.
Roger Duffy’s design approach is rooted in a deep understanding of the unique qualities of each client’s program, site, and aspirations. He eschews working in any particular style. Before he begins any project, Mr. Duffy studies and analyzes the functionality of the best of that building type. This benchmarking methodology yields to a conceptual process that involves transcending and superseding the current state-of-the-art. His interest in making art integral to his designs has led to numerous fruitful collaborations with a wide range of artists. Two of Mr. Duffy’s most important initiatives are the creation of SOM Education Lab, a campus planning and design studio, and the SOM Journal, an annually published book of the firm’s best work as selected and critiqued by an independent jury of artists, designers, and critics.
Source: www.som.com/roger-duffy
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