STUDENT LECTURE SERIES: Jing Liu | SO-IL

Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 12 - 2pm

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In 2008, Jing Liu founded SO – IL with Florian Idenburg, whom she met while working at SANAA on the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. As a partner of SO – IL, Liu has worked with numerous cultural institutions on their big and small adventures. 

Liu assisted the London-based Frieze Art Fair in designing and realizing its acclaimed structure for the inaugural NewYork fair; curated the cross-disciplinary event series Stillspotting for the Guggenheim Museum; researched and re-envisioned museum education spaces together with the MoMA Education Department and installed the highly experimental and interactive structure Pole Dance at PS1.

Liu is involved in the design of all current projects at SO – IL while remaining academically active, with teaching positions at the Oslo School of Architecture, Syracuse University, Parsons, Columbia GSAPP and the University of Kentucky.

Located in Room 315F at 12pm.

OPEN ONLY TO CURRENT COOPER UNION STUDENTS/FACULTY/STAFF

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