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Kim
Herforth Nielsen
Friday, June 15, 8:00 – 8:45am
Principal, 3XN Architects (Denmark)
Investigate/Ask/Tell/Draw/Build – 3XN Architects’ way of thinking
and working
Kim will invite the audience into 3XN’s ways of thinking and working, using
the themes ‘investigate the site’, ‘ask the people’, ‘tell
their story’, ‘draw the detail’ and ‘build communities’ to
navigate through 3XN’s working process as well as a large number of recent
projects. 3XN values curiosity, originality and poetry and has a multi-layered
approach. We work with user-centered methods fitting each project uniquely to
the users and our client – with a strong emphasis on designing for human
beings. We build on a Scandinavian tradition of functionality, clarity and beauty.
We work in the confident knowledge that we can make playful and poetic architecture
jump from the drawing board and come alive. 3XN translates poetry into reality
and aim for our architecture to become the heritage of tomorrow.
Born 1954, Kim Herforth Nielsen graduated as cand. arch. from the Aarhus School
of Architecture 1981, and founded 3XN Architects 1986. Today, Kim Herforth Nielsen
is heading a company of more than 100 employees. He is Principal Architect and
holds full architectural responsibility for all 3XN products; from original concept
to turnkey building. Important buildings include the Architects’ Building,
Copenhagen; the Royal Danish Embassy, Berlin; Music Building, Amsterdam, Museum
of Liverpool, Orestad College in Copenhagen and the City Hall of Nieuwegein,
Netherlands and latest, the Lighthouse project at the Aarhus harbour front. Kim
Herforth Nielsen has been awarded the Eckersberg Medaille and the Knight’s
Cross of Denmark.
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