Casper Mork-Ulnes: The Craft of Place | Architecture Lecture
Friedman Visiting Professor Casper Mork-Ulnes explores how materials and building practices transform universal human needs into culturally specific architecture, carrying memory, meaning, and knowledge across generations. In this lecture, he argues for an architecture rooted in place: responsive to the present while connected to the historical realities and material conditions from which it emerges. Here, place is not a constraint, but a source of architecture, meaning, and belonging.
About the Speaker
Norwegian-born, Casper Mork-Ulnes was raised in Italy, Scotland, and the United States, which has shaped the cultural and geographic perspective evident in the work of his eponymous practice. The firm explores the relationship between architecture, context, and material, developing work that responds to the specific cultural, environmental, and physical conditions of place. In 2015, Mork-Ulnes was named one of “California’s finest emerging talent” by the American Institute of Architects California Council. He was selected by the Norwegian National Museum as one of “the most noteworthy young architects in Norway” with the exhibit Under 40. Young Norwegian Architecture 2013, and in 2019 was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. In 2020, he was awarded the Emerging Voices award by the Architectural League of New York.
This lecture is part of the Department of Architecture’s fall lecture series.
Bauer Wurster Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. If you require accommodations to fully participate in this event, please contact archevents@berkeley.edu.