Rem Koolhaas: SFAI's 2007 McBean Distinguished Lecturer

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Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Flag for the European Union. AMO was involved in a brainstorm on the visual communication about Europe organized by the European Commission. The colored “barcode” illustrated here was one of the results of this brainstorm. In 2006 the barcode was adopted by the Austrian Government as a symbol of its European Union Presidency.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- SFAI is pleased to announce that this year’s 2007 McBean Distinguished Lecturer is Rem Koolhaas. Joining a list of eminent past figures—Robert Rauschenberg, Walter Hopps, Adrian Piper, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread, Barbara Kruger, and William Kentridge—Koolhaas will speak on Wednesday, 28 February at 7:30pm on the SFAI campus. The McBean Distinguished Lectureship was created in 2000 with the aim of providing the students at SFAI and the Bay Area public with direct access to the major practitioners and theorists of contemporary global art and culture. Presented annually and timed to be a central event in the SFAI academic calendar, the lecture is intended to contribute to the global forum on contemporary art discourse. (...)

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