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Architect Jan de Vylder Delivers Virtual Lecture

POSTED ON: March 18, 2020

The first virtual lecture during the COVID-19 shutdown has been announced for Wednesday, March 18 at 3pm.

Although The Cooper Union is closed as part of the effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, our community has been invited to attend a virtual lecture to be given by architect Jan de Vylder at Cornell University, which generously opened the lecture to Cooper and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Mr. de Vylder, originally scheduled to appear as part of Cooper's visiting lecture series, will instead be speaking via Livestream on Wednesday, March 18 at 3PM (EDT). A Q&A session will follow. The lecture can be viewed afterwards as well.

Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck are cofounders of jan de vylder architecten (2008), architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (2010), and most recently, of architecten jan de vylder inge vinck (A JDVIV). A JDVIV explores ideas launched at ETH Zurich in the studio series titled Universum Carrousel Journey (UCJ): Universum as a world to be created. Carrousel as ever ongoing. Journey as an exploration.

A JDVIV/UCJ is a multidisciplinary practice in which making and thinking are deeply embedded. New horizons are being explored internationally and in research, and profound positions are being taken, both in the firm's interest in drawing and also in debating the essence of urgency today.

In these different constellations, De Vylder and Vinck have realized several projects in Belgium and abroad, ranging from small projects for individual clients to large projects for public clients or private investors. Their projects have had diverse characteristics, ranging from a house to a university campus or public commission. The projects are obtained through competitions, selections, or direct commission.

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