Wolf Prix co-founded Coop Himmelb(l)au in 1968, defining the practice as “not a color but an idea, of creating architecture with fantasy, as buoyant and variable as clouds.” Over the intervening years the Vienna based firm has successfully followed their original intent to create an architecture that “has no physical ground plan, but a psychic one” characterized by walls that “no longer exist” and spaces that “are pulsating balloons….” Recently completed work includes The Academy of Fine Arts and the BMW Welt, both in Berlin; Apartment Building Gasometer B, Vienna; the Akron Art Museum, Ohio; and the Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 of Visual and Performing Arts. Current projects are the Musée des Confluences, Lyon; new headquarters for the Central European Bank, Frankfurt am Main; Busan Cinema Complex, South Korea; and the expansion of the Cloud Roof exhibition center, Riva del Garda, Italy.

Introduced and moderated by Thom Mayne, co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.