Architect Dagur Eggertsson to Present 'The House as an Instrument' Lecture on Feb. 15

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Element House, in Bisan Urban Natural Park, South Korea. (Image courtesy Rintala Eggertsson Architects)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Dagur Eggertsson will present a lecture at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.

Eggertsson, who was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, is a founder of Rintala Eggertsson Architects in Oslo, Norway, with Sami Rintala.

In this lecture, titled "The House as an Instrument," Eggertsson will present the short history of the firm. He will discuss some of the key themes and subjects the office has been dealing with and will show a selection of key projects, with an emphasis on recent projects.

Rintala Eggertsson Architects was established by Eggertsson and Rintala, a Finnish architect, in 2007. In 2010, Vibeke Jenssen, a Norwegian architect, joined the team. The firm focuses on teaching, furniture design, architecture and planning. They conduct hands-on workshops with students and clients, in which buildings are designed and constructed in full scale on site. They are currently working on projects in several countries, including Norway, Finland, Greenland, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil and China.

Occupying the space between architecture and public art, their work has been installed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the MAXXI Museum in Rome and in the Venice Biennale. Their work has been described as narrative and conceptual, and the result is a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic resources of the site. Their work has been published by the New York Times, Wallpaper, Blueprint, Domus, A+U and Architectural Review.

Recent selected projects include the PINO pavilion for La Térmica, a cultural center in Málaga, Spain; MM1 art showroom in Theresesgate, Oslo; SALT temporary installations in Sandhornøy; Bus Stop in Kressbad, Austria; Treehotel in Harads, Sweden; and Hut-to-hut, a prefabricated tourist dwelling in Kumta, Karnataka, India.

The firm has been nominated and received more than a dozen prizes and awards for its work. They have received an Austrian State Prize for architecture and an International Architecture Award. Safe Haven Library, a collaborative project in Thailand, was named a 2009 Building of the Year by ArchDaily in the museums and libraries category.

Eggertsson received a Master of Architecture from Helsinki University of Technology and a Master of Architecture from Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He has also studied in the United States at Cooper Union and Columbia University, both in New York, New York.

Eggertsson and Rintala are this year's John G. Williams Distinguished Visiting Professors in Architecture for the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.

For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or fayjones.uark.edu.