In his talk “Travel Sketches from Elsewhere & Nowhere” Lucien Steil endeavors combining notes and images of both autobiographical, imaginative and fictitious nature. While meditating on his sketching, ‘Capriccio’ drawings and paintings, as well as highlighting the intersection between design and art work, he will address the poetic-imaginative dimension of hand drawing and its intuitive and serendipitous design potential. Referring to ‘Zen’ philosophy, surrealism, magical realism, as well as to psychology and neuroscience, he will elaborate on hand drawing as a meditative experience and poetic experimentation, as well as an emotional-rational practice enhancing mindfulness, memory and imagination.
Lucien Steil will shortly present his book “Travel Sketches from Elsewhere & Nowhere’ followed by a book signing event.
About the Author:
Lucien Steil is an architect, artist and author from Luxembourg. He has studied architecture and urbanism in Paris and Vincennes and went to work with Maurice Culot and Leon Krier in Brussels before setting up a practice in Luxembourg with Irish architect Colum Mulhern. He has lectured in Europe and the USA, and taught at Oregon School of Design, Polytechnical University of Puerto Rico, University of Miami, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, University of Notre Dame, US Campus and Rome Studies Program, etc. He has taught Summer Schools with the University of Bologna, the Premio Rafael Manzano Martos and Intbau Spain, the Princes Foundation and the Prince of Wales’s Urban Design Task Force, as well as with the University of Buckingham. He is presently an Associate Teaching Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame. Lucien Steil is a member of INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners (ICTP), and a Honoris Causa member of the Istituto Italiano di Bioarchitettura.
Lucien Steil is a principal of Katarxis Urban Workshops asbl. (Luxembourg), and ‘Heure Bleue Architecture’ (London). He is the chief-editor of KATARXIS (online journal on traditional architecture and urbanism), and a regular contributor to the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (Madrid). He is the editor of “The Architectural Capriccio, Memory, Fantasy and Invention” (Ashgate/ Routledge, UK), and co-editor with A. Sagharchi of “New Palladians: Sustainability and Modernity for 21st Century Architecture”, (ArtMedia Press, London) as well as of “Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century” (Rizzoli, New York). He published “In the Mood for Architecture: Tradition, Modernism & Serendipity” in 2018 (Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen), and “Travel Sketches from Elsewhere & Nowhere” in 2022 (Ediciones Asimetricas, Madrid)