Jeanne Gang on the Guggenheim Helsinki Competition Panel

October 15, 2014
Center for Architecture
New York

In June 2014, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation launched its first open, international, anonymous architectural competition, for the design of a proposed Guggenheim museum in Helsinki. For this panel discussion held at the Center for Architecture, moderator Joel Sanders, Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Architecture, and panelists Cara Cragan, Director of Architectural Projects, Helsinki and Abu Dhabi, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Jeanne Gang, Principal and Founder, Studio Gang Architects; Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Associate Professor, Yale School of Architecture; and Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, engaged in a broad-ranging discussion of topics raised by the competition that are reshaping the future of the contemporary art museum and the discipline of architecture.