PORTLAND–Enrique Norten, founder of the internationally renowned firm of TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City, will discuss his work at an illustrated public lecture on May 16 in Portland.

The talk will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, in the Winningstad Theater at the Portland Performing Arts Center, 1111 S.W. Broadway.

Since establishing TEN Arquitectos in 1986, Norten has received many significant international architectural awards for his work. Prominent completed projects include the National Theater School of Mexico; the TELEVISA Building, Mexico City; the Mexican National History Museum; House O at Bosques de las Lomas; House LE at Colonia Condesa; the Reyes-Retna House, Mexico City; Workers Housing at Brasil 75 in Mexico City; the Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Building, Houston; and HABITA, Mexico City.

Norten was born in Mexico City in 1954. He graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1978 and Cornell University in 1980. Norten has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Rice University, Columbia University and Universidad Iberoamericana. He was recently the Lorch Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan.

Admission to the talk is $10 for non-students and $5 for full-time students. Doors and ticket sales open at 6 p.m.

For information, call Gerry Gast, UO associate professor of architecture, Portland Center, (503) 725-3382.

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