Lecture: Miho Museum

May 4, 1999

Lecture: Miho Museum
Tim Culbert (Architect)
Ware Lounge, Architecture Building (6th Floor), Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.) 6:00 PM
Award-winning architect Tim Culbert will speak about the construction of the Miho Museum in Shigaraki, Japan.
From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Culbert worked with I.M. Pei as project architect during the construction of the Miho Museum in Shigaraki, Japan. The new museum is set in a mountaintop nature preserve outside Kyoto and its revolutionary design has drawn attention from around the globe. Designed to house the Shumei Family Collection of ancient art, much of the building is buried beneath 7,000 newly planted trees, leaving only a network of glass-paneled rooftops exposed.

Mr. Culbert has won recognition in various national and international architectural competitions. In 1987, he received the young Architects Prize (Album de la Juene Architecture) awarded by the French Ministry for Architecture and Urban Development. He has also received prizes for his submissions for the Paris-Bastille Opera House Competition, the Fourteenth Session PAN-Housing Competition, France and for the European Museum of Photography Competition (MEP), Paris.
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation