Conversation | Trash Talk with Annabelle Selldorf with Felix Burrichter

Please join us as Annabelle Selldorf and Felix Burrichter discuss the Selldorf Architects-designed Sims Municipal Recycling Facility in Brooklyn as a foray into a conversation about utilitarian design and the aesthetics of standardization.Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal of Selldorf Architects, a 65-person architectural practice that she founded in New York City in 1988. The firm has worked on public and private projects that range from museums, libraries and galleries to exhibition design and a recycling facility. Born and raised in Germany, Ms. Selldorf came to the United States to study architecture and received degrees from Pratt Institute and Syracuse University. Ms. Selldorf is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of the Architectural League of New York and the Chinati Foundation.Felix Burrichter is a German-born, New York-based writer and creative director. He studied architecture at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture and Columbia University before founding PIN–UP magazine in 2006 of which he is editor and creative director. PIN–UP is a biannual architecture and design magazine (“Magazine for Architectural Entertainment”) that regularly features interviews with renowned architects, as well as critical essays and contemporary architecture and design photography. In addition to consulting on art and design books, Burrichter is a regular contributor to T The New York Times Style Magazine, W Magazine, and Fantastic Man.