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Putting Things Together and Taking Things Apart - Justin Allen

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm

White Stag Block, White Box
70 NW Couch Street, Portland, OR 97209

Justin Allen - Julie Neupert Stott Visiting Professor in Interior Architecture

'Putting Things Together and Taking Things Apart' will attempt to shine light and encourage awareness to the practice of architecture through the context and story of an Upstate New Yorker, Philosopher, Fabricator, Inventor and Licensed German Architect, living and working in Berlin, Germany.

Brief Bio:

Justin Allen was born in 1979 in Upstate New York. He holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and a Masters degree in Architecture. In 2006 he worked for Steven Holl architects in New York City and in 2009 he moved to Berlin and worked with von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. In 2014 Justin Allen established ALLENKAUFMANN STUDIO with Saskia Kaufmann in Berlin, which is a practice recognised for spatial and material sensitivity with a rigorous effort to embrace art and fabrication in the context of architecture and design. Coming from a background in the Tool and Die and trades industry, Justin Allen continues to work with his hands. In 2015 he received an official patent for his invention of a unique joinery system with the German Patent Institution. In 2016 he was the AIA Hampton Roads Chapter 24th Anniversary Honorary speaker in Norfolk, Virginia. Since 2017 Justin Allen and Saskia Kaufmann have been involved in establishing a second design studio called ALLENKAUFMANN OBJECTS, which is committed to bringing "all-wood-only-wood" products to the furniture market in the form of the Dado Shelf and Dado X table. Currently, Justin Allen is the Visiting Stott Professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene.