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11.16.11Mabel Wilson, Bethune Lecture
Mabel Wilson talks about "Progress and Prospects: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums" and will ask, "How did black Americans utilize world's fairs to craft spaces where they could envision their future, think about their past, and protest their exclusion from their rights as American citizens?"
11.02.11 Annie Han
Annie Han's lecture is entitled "Introducing Uncertainty" and will ask How can architcture leverage conditions of indeterminacy, incompleteness and inconsistency to create new branches of inquiry?"
11.01.11Tom Daniels, Clarkson Chair in Planning
Tom Daniels is the 2011-12 Clarkson Chair in Planning and will speak on "Revitalizing Cities, Managing Sprawl." As a part of the year-long symposium, he will ask "What does research on regions tell us about how to better plan for cities?"
10.26.11 Martin Bechthold
Martin Bechthold will talk on "Microcosms: Design Experiments" and ask "How would you describe the difference bewteen design and design research?"
10.05.11 John Peterson
John Peterson's lecture is entitled "Architecture and Outcomes: An Uncomfortable Relationship" and will ask, "Is experimentation in client-free environments an effective vehicle to develop relevant solutions?"
09.21.11 Michael Conard
Michael Conard is a registered architect. He holds an NCARB certificate and is a Past Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design and of the Design Trust for Public Space.
09.14.11 Philip Beesley
Philip Beesley will talk on "Limbic Places" and ask, "How might architecture inspire our future? Can we see living qualities in emerging architecture?"
04.28.11 Ian Beniston, GPSA Lecture
Ian Beniston is the Deputy Director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC) in Youngstown, Ohio. Beniston is responsible for stabilizing the transitional Idora Neighborhood by reclaiming vacant spaces and blighted lots into productive greenspace uses that include several citizen-driven urban garden programs.
04.13.11 Kenny Cupers, Banham Fellow
Kenny Cupers is the 2010-2011 Reyner Banham Fellow
at the School of Architecture and Planning, University at
Buffalo. Architect and scholar of the twentieth-century
built environment, he is currently completing a book on
the historical category of the user at the intersection of
architecture and social science in postwar France.
04.07.11 Jeremy Till
Jeremy Till is Dean of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Westminster and a partner at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects.
04.06.11 Teddy Cruz, Clarkson Chair in Architecture
Teddy Cruz, the 2011 Clarkson Chair in Architecture, established Estudio Teddy Cruz at the border between San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, in 2000. His projects primarily engage the micro scale of the neighborhood, transforming it into the urban laboratory of the 21st century.
View Cruz Lecture: Creative Acts of Citizenship
03.30.11 Christine Bae/Harry Richardson, Ibrahim Jammal Memorial Lecture
Christine Bae’s work focuses on the intersection of planning for diverse communities, sustainable urbanization, and environmental justice. Harry W. Richardson has taught at USC for over 30 years. His research interests are urban and regional economics, and international planning and development.
04.01.05 Steven Holl
Steven Holl, the inaugural Martell Visiting Critic, founded Steven Holl Architects in New York in 1976 as a design-oriented office. The firm has been internationally recognized for quality and excellence in design. Recent projects include the Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture, Nanjing, China, Expansion of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Undergraduate Dormitories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the expansion and renovation of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; a new marina development in Beirut, Lebanon; and a new building for the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa.
