Kinetic Architecture Exhibit and Symposia in St. Paul, MN

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Internationally renowned panelists announced for March symposium, ‘Building the Impossible: Architecture in Motion’

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Retractable roofs, movable sports fields, screens that follow the sun, movable fences, interactive sculptures and toys and even the jetways that meet your plane: All were once impossible dreams, but no more. This “architecture in motion” is the topic of upcoming symposia and an exhibit at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.

Internationally renowned architect and educator Dr. Peter Eisenman, designer of the new Arizona Cardinals stadium and the Berlin Holocaust memorial, will give a keynote address to open the symposia at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, 2005 in O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium.

A seven-member panel of engineers, architects and designers from all over the country will give presentations at a professionals’ symposium March 3. They include: Michael Fox, Larry Griffis, John Kissinger, Chuck Hoberman, Don Krantz, Joan Soranno, and Frank Worms. University of St. Thomas students in art history and engineering will give presentations at a student symposium March 4 on the topic, “Building the Impossible: Architecture in Motion,” in O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium on the St. Thomas campus in St. Paul.

The symposia accompany an exhibition of architectural drawings, photographs and models that cover the history of kinetic architecture -- buildings that move -- and the merger of architecture and technology that makes them possible. The exhibit will be on display from Monday, Feb. 28, through Monday, April 4, in the lobby gallery of O’Shaughnessy Educational Center. Works also will be displayed in Room 102 of nearby O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center.

Please visit: http://www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/UndergradSite/architecture_in_motion.htm for more information and registration forms.