Founders of Arquitectonica Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear to Speak at Columbia University

MIAMI, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Arquitectonica partners Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear will share stories from their practice that traverses architecture, landscape, product design and interiors. The lecture will be held at Columbia University on Wednesday February 8, 2012 at 6:30 PM.

The Sarasota Herald Tribune suggested that the firm's "liberated, sometimes whimsical, exploration of shape, color and even graphics" - such as their Pink House and Atlantis, a high-rise condominium made famous in the opening credits of Miami Vice - were "born of the firm's melting-pot, beach-metropolis roots." Arquitectonica's latest New York addition includes MiMA, or, Middle of Manhattan, a 63-story Hell's Kitchen tower that features rental units, condos, a hotel, and an off-Broadway theater. Further north, Arquitectonica created a widely-praised addition to the Bronx Museum of Art.

Fort-Brescia and Spear's stories will be live-streamed on arch.columbia.edu #wood020812

"Will You Tell Me A Story" will be held on February 8, 2012 at 6:30PM in Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University GSAPP, 1 train to 116th Street. The event is free and open to the public. For more details please visit: (http://www.arch.columbia.edu/event/gsapp-event/will-you-tell-me-story-bernardo-fort-brescia-and-laurinda-spear?mini=calendar/2012-02/all).

For more information, or to interview Bernardo Fort-Brescia or Laurinda Spear please contact Eileen Koch of LA public relations firm, Eileen Koch & Company Inc.,  at 310-441-1000, or email [email protected].

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