the Architecture Class presents:
'The Production of Appearance' - Public Lecture Series Summer Semester 2010
Lecture
Adam Caruso: Almost Everything
Caruso St John, one of the leading architects in the UK, was established by Adam Caruso and Peter St John in 1990. Work by the practice includes prominent museum and gallery buildings such as the New Art Gallery Walsall, the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, Nottingham Contemporary and the Gagosian Galleries in London and Rome. The practice has been the architects for Tate Britain since 2007. Caruso St John´s ongoing interest in exhibition design has resulted in diverse collaborations with artist Thomas Demand, most recently at Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Adam Caruso has taught at the University of North London from 1990-2000. He was a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland from 1999-2001 and Professor of Architecture at the University of Bath from 2002-2005. In 2005 he was a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is currently Visiting Professor on the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and was a Visiting Professor at ETH in Zurich, 2007- 2009.