Lecture by Kai-Uwe Bergmann

This lecture was recorded Monday, October 29, 2012, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts as part of the Architecture Lecture Series.

Kai-Uwe Bergmann is a partner and head of business development at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), based in Copenhagen and New York. BIG's architecture emerges out of an analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves in response to multicultural exchange, global economic flows, and communication technologies.

Bergmann is LEED AP certified and registered as an architect in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Denmark.

Bergmann was a project manager on central Asia's first carbon-neutral master plan: Zira Island in Baku, Azerbaijan. Before joining BIG in 2006, he was a project architect in the Austrian office of Baumschlager & Eberle.

Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

The 2012-13 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4 Architecture; Perkins+Will; Pfau Long Architecture Ltd.; STUDIOS Architecture; WSP Flack+Kurtz; ARCH Art Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; GCI; Long & Levit LLP; SFMOMA A+D Forum; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Blasen Landscape Architecture; John A. Raeber, Architectural Specifications; and Ratcliff.

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