Craig Dykers

Craig Dykers

Craig Edward Dykers is an architect. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1961 and has lived in Europe and North America. Dykers received a Bachelor degree in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin after studies in medicine and art.

Dykers has worked in Texas and California and later co-founded the architecture, landscape and interior design company of Snøhetta arkitektur landskap AS in Oslo, Norway in 1989 and in New York City in 2004. He worked with the design of several projects including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in NYC. Other projects included the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.^[1]

Active professionally and academically, Craig has been a member of the Norwegian Architecture Association (NAL), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England. He has been the Diploma Adjudicator at the Architectural College in Oslo and has been a Distinguished Professor at City College in New York City. He has lectured extensively in Europe, Asia and the Americas. In addition Dykers has been commissioned to complete installation art projects in public spaces, many of which focused on the notion of context, nature and human nature.

References

1. ^ "Lecture by Snøhetta's Craig Dykers". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway) (Norway.org). 27 October 2008. http://www.norway.org/culture/lectures/craigdykers.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-28. 

External links

• Utne Reader Profile, September/October 2003
• Interview with Craig Dykers, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
• Craig Dykers: "Thinking and Doing: Recent Works at Snohetta," Syracuse University Lecture, 4/14/2009

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