Reviving the Alexandria Library
Art of Architecture Lecture
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
· Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Lecture: 6 p.m.
Arkansas Arts Center Lecture Hall
Craig Dykers, a founding member of the architecture firm Snøhetta, will discuss reincarnating the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the largest and most famous library of the ancient world. Dykers will explain the challenges and adventures involved in realizing such an ambitious project. The lecture will concern the unique nature of the project, which required 12 years of international effort. Dykers, born in Frankfurt, Germany, received a Bachelor degree in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. A member of the Norwegian Architecture Association(NAL), the American Institute of Architects(AIA) and a Fellow in the Royal Society of Arts in England, Dykers has worked on other notable projects including the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in New York and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.
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