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2020's most popular architecture school lecture poster on Archinect is...

2021-02-04T13:52:00-05:00

The wait is over, and the votes are in! 2020 was a strange year but it encouraged many schools to get creative and explore graphic design possibilities for their virtual lecture series.

Our 2020 Get Lectured poster competition generated a total of 693 votes from the Archinect community and voted Carnegie Mellon's Fall poster as the top lecture poster. In second place was Thomas Jefferson University's Fall poster and Woodbury University's Fall poster took third.

First Place - Carnegie Mellon University

Image courtesy of Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture

Second Place - Thomas Jefferson University

Image courtesy of Thomas Jefferson University College of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Third Place - Woodbury University

Image courtesy of Woodbury School of Architecture

*Notable Mention: 4th Place - Tulane University

Image courtesy of Tulane University School of Architecture

Thank you to everyone who participated and voted! Revisit all previous Get Lectured posters and stay u...

Vote for your favorite architecture school lecture poster from 2020

2021-01-19T09:00:00-05:00

2020 was an unforgettable year. While schools adjusted to hosting online events and lectures, people worldwide could tune in and listen to thought-provoking discussions and presentations from leaders in architecture, design, and other complementary disciplines.

As we look back at last year's virtual lecture series, it's time to vote for your favorite architecture school lecture poster!

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lectured series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters. Which lecture poster will win the top spot? In our last poll for 2019, the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design won first place.

Check out the posters we presented throughout the 2020 school year, and vote for your favorites here.

Voting closes on Monday, February 1 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. The lecture posters with the most votes will be announced on February 4. Have fun!

Get Lectured: University of Virginia, Fall '20

2020-11-04T14:25:00-05:00

For their virtual lecture series, the University of Virginia School of Architecture has focused the Fall semester lectures on "a range of contemporary voices and perspectives on the relationships between race and the built environment, social equity and activism, environmental justice and inclusive practices."

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured compilation features each school's lecture series and their communication design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

For September, UVA welcomed lectures from Katherine McKittrick, Alissa Ujie Diamond, and Chelina Odbert. In addition to these presentations on urban planning, equity, race, and architectural history, the school also held its Women of Impact Q+A event with Marian Weiss and Nancy Howell Agee. Following that event, the "Justice is Beauty: An Evening with MASS" welcomed a virtual discussion with UVA alums Katie Swen...

Get Lectured: The Ohio State University, Fall '20

2020-11-02T17:48:00-05:00

This Fall, Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University has showcased their Autumn 2020 Baumer Conversations. The school "invites prominent researchers and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning to present their work. For Autumn 2020, the Baumer series has been reimagined as short talks followed by conversations between the speaker and respondents from the Knowlton faculty."

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The school kicked of September with discussions from Silas Murrow of Poly-Mode, Joan Fitzgerald Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University, Dan Immergluck Professor in the Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University, Sara Zewde of Studio Zewde, and Vivian Lee and Jame...

Get Lectured: The University of Kansas, Fall '20

2020-10-30T17:57:00-04:00

For the Fall The University of Kansas' School of Architecture & Design collaborated with the school's Institute for Health + Wellness Design to develop a series of lectures addressing health care design.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Their "Grand Rounds" lecture series dives into healthcare design during and after the current Covid-19 pandemic. KU Associate Professor of Architecture Keith Van de Riet shares, "Amid the pandemic, this timely lecture series brings academic and industry leaders currently navigating the technological, social and environmental factors that are forever changing architectural research and practice,

Broken into three discussions the first round of lectures took place on Sept 10th focusing on Covid/Care/Community. Speakers such as Ra...

Get Lectured: Virginia Tech, Fall '20

2020-10-29T16:54:00-04:00

School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech shares their Fall lecture series and focuses on new modes of practice. According to the school, they ask, "How do we make architecture for today?"

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The school shares, "For New Modes of Practice we have invited a group of young practitioners working in new ways both in how they represent architecture and in how they redesign the relationship between practice, politics, society and criticism to share and discuss their work with us this fall." Since September, their exemplary speaker line-up has expanded on this focus. "Our speakers for the fall all are moving beyond modes of design that dominated architecture during the late 1990s and early 2000s. They are less interested in technic...

Get Lectured: University of Waterloo, Fall '20

2020-10-28T15:50:00-04:00

University of Waterloo School of Architecture shares their Fall lecture series and its emphasis on solidarity. According to the school, their 2020-2021 Waterloo Architecture Arriscraft Speaker Series What is Solidarity? asks: how can architects participate in collective, long-term social movements for change and advocate within and beyond professional obligations?"

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The school's online lecture series goal is to bring three speakers for each set of conversations as they dive into topics of Land Back, Disability Justice, Abolition, Right to Remain, Anti-Extractivism, and Food Sovereignty. Unique to their series is discussions will be linked to student-led workshops to "facilitate deeper conversations about how solidarities might re...

Get Lectured: Columbia University, Fall '20

2020-10-26T14:59:00-04:00

Columbia GSAPP's public events and lecture series covers an array of topical issues that focus on architecture and its involvement in race, social justice, politics, and climate change.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Starting in September, GSAPP welcomed Stephen Burks, Bryan C. Lee Jr., Yasmeen Lari, and Lola Ben-Alon. Discussions on Site and History: On the Question of Repair and The Preservation of Disability dove into conversations moderated by Galia Solomonoff and David Gissen. Also during the month of September was GSAPP's symposium that focused on the recent book launch Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present, published by the University Pittsburgh Press and edited by Mabel O. Wilson, Irene Cheg, and Charle...

Get Lectured: Carnegie Mellon University, Fall '20

2020-10-23T13:31:00-04:00

For their 2020 Fall Lecture season Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture focuses on architecture, social equity, and spatial justice. The school shares that these "series, conversations, and ideas that challenge and inspire us to re-envision our future, are more relevant and critically important than ever before. "

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The lecture series kicked off with a presentation from Toni Griffin, director of Just City Lab and Professor of Practice at Harvard GSD on September 28th. The month of October welcomed lectures from Marshall Brown of the Princeton Urban Imagination Center and William Gilchrist from the City of Oakland, Planning and Building. October 26th will be a lecture from Mabel O. Wilson discussing "Bulletproofing America’s Publ...

Get Lectured: MIT, Fall'20

2020-10-22T15:49:00-04:00

The MIT Architecture focuses their Fall 2020 online public programming on "a series of conversations on where we are now." The school shares, "We will be talking about systemic racism and approaches to support art and design in Black communities; pandemics, inclusion, and history; democracy and data; architecture, power, and democracy; designing for resilience; the refugee crisis; art and slavery and vernacularism and diplomacy in an increasingly transnational, yet divided, world."

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with graphic lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

From September to December MIT Architecture has transitioned their online public programs towards a series of virtual lectures and discussions across the department's "diverse approaches to architectural knowledge." In September the school welcomed De...

Get Lectured: University of Oregon, Fall'20

2020-10-20T17:29:00-04:00

The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Environment ramps up for their Fall Lecture series “Care of” or “c/o.”

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Featuring a poster designed by Isaac Morris, a BArch candidate, UO School of Architecture kicks off with Berlin architect Anupama Kundoo and Hiroto Kobayashi and Naomi Maki of Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop on October 26th with "Care of Time." November the school welcomes landscape historian, theorist and design Alison Hirsch and landscape and policy scholar Willow Lung-Amam for their second event "Care of Production" on November 2nd. “Care of Material” will feature UO School of Architecture & Environment Visiting Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice Nina Maritz of Nina Maritz Architects, Sean C...

Get Lectured: Rice University, Fall' 20

2020-10-19T19:31:00-04:00

For the Fall term, universities are using their lecture series as opportunities to discuss the ongoing issues of racial inequality, climate, change, and politics within the field of architecture. Join Rice University for its Fall 2020 virtual lectures focusing on race, social justice, and allyship.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Rice start off the months of August and September with lectures from Mikki Hebl, Anzilla Glimore, Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, Jesús Vassallo, Ana María León, Stephen Fox, Kadambari Baxi, and Nonya Grenader. Leading into the week of October 21st the school welcomes a lecture from Michael Stone-Richards Professor and Director of Critical Theory at the College for Creative Studies as he discusses "Negation and Disavowal in Spatial Pol...

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Fall '20

2020-10-14T14:48:00-04:00

Join Harvard GSD for their line up of virtual lectures for Fall 2020. Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The GSD kicked off September with lectures from Linda Shi, Emmanuel Pratt, Metahaven, and Charles Davis. Specialty lectures included discussions led by Rafael Moneo with Sarah Whiting (John Hejduk Soundings Lecture), Seth Denizen (Kiley Fellow Lecture), Alex Krieger (50th Anniversary of Urban Design Lecture), Edgar Pieterse (Loeb Lecture), and Michael Maltzan, Mike Alvidrez, and Helen Leung (John T. Dunlop Lecture). Also, during the month of September the GSD held their "In Pursuit of Equitable Development: Lessons from Washington, Detroit, and Boston" Symposium.

Continuing from their September lectures, the GSD welcomes a strong guest speaker line-up fo...

Get Lectured: SCI-Arc, Fall'20

2020-10-13T14:51:00-04:00

Virtual lecture series provide students, design professionals, and the public with ways to engage and listen in on school lectures, symposiums, and panel discussions. Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

SCI-Arc continues their Fall lecture series with Andrés Jaque discussing Superpowers of Scale on October 14th and a lecture by Frida Escobedo on October 21st. Closing out the month is a conversation with Graham Harman and Sylvia Lavin discussing "Do All Objects Matter Equally" on October 28th.

November welcomes conversations led by Jack Halberstam, Trevor McFedries, and Dominic and Christopher Leong of Leong Leong. Ending their fall lecture series is Symposium: A Queer Query on December 4th and 5th, organized by David Eskenazi.

All events are free and open to ...

Get Lectured: University at Buffalo, Fall '20

2020-10-12T18:41:00-04:00

As architecture programs being their fall term, many have decided to take this time to address issues of racial and social injustices happening across the nation and within the profession. Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has focused their Fall lecture series on addressing how the school can take actionable steps in the right direction in their academic programming and their public events. The school shares, "the 2020-21 Lecture Series at the UB School of Architecture and Planning will focus on racial justice in our disciplines and the broader impacts that the work of architects and urban planners have on historically disenfranchised communities, to generate dialogue and prompt real change."

Wit...

Get Lectured: University of New Mexico, Fall '20

2020-10-09T16:25:00-04:00

Don't miss the University of New Mexico's Fall lecture series as they shift the focus of their 2020-2021 series to virtual conversations. Their conversation series: Contesting, aims to generate an open discourse with students, faculty, and guests as they enter the 2020 Fall term.

Archinect's Get Lectured series highlight's upcoming lecture series and each school's graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The school shares "in response to the global pandemic and the renewed fights to end racism and structural inequality, the 2020-21 lecture series committee and UNM's SA+P has opted for a 'conversation' series rather than a 'lecture' series. Now is the time for critical dialogue, difficult discussions, and debate." The school will have three virtual events revolving around the topics of Monuments, Climate, and Design.

During the months of October and N...

Get Lectured: Woodbury, Fall '20

2020-10-08T19:45:00-04:00

Never miss a lecture series with our on-going coverage of academic lectures. This Fall, institutions are offering a fantastic line-up of guest lecturers, panel discussions, and virtual events open to the public.

Archinect's Get Lectured series highlight's upcoming lecture series and each school's graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Woodbury University School of Architecture shares their Fall virtual lecture events. Since September, the school has welcomed Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow and conducted their "Constructing Common Ground" roundtable. Kicking off October was a lecture presented by artist/designer Ibiye Camp. On October 20th, the school will hold their second roundtable discussion, "Dialog Cross Section" with Mary Pat McGuire, Erika Walker, and Dr. Kristina Hill. Demar Matthews, Meena Agha, and Teddy Cruz will participate in the Spa...

Get Lectured: University of Texas at Austin, Fall '20

2020-10-07T10:00:00-04:00

As in-person events adapt to virtual formats, schools have been using this time to share their line-up of speakers across the globe thanks to their free public events. Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA) shares their Fall virtual lecture events. Starting in September, the school has invited an international line-up of designers and thinkers. As we enter the month of October, the school welcomes Liz Ogbu of Studio O, Kathrin Gimmel of JAJA Architects, and Bas Van De Poel of Space10. Closing out their Fall lecture series is William O'Brian of WOJR: Organization for Architecture and Michael Bricker of People for Urban Progress.

For their Fall Lecture series UTSOA invited "practitioners and theoris...

Get Lectured: Thomas Jefferson University, Fall '20

2020-10-06T14:34:00-04:00

As we enter the month of October don't miss upcoming lecture series from architecture programs across the nation. Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Thomas Jefferson University's College of Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) continues its lecture series and welcomes an amazing line-up of speakers through out the month of November. On October 12th the university will welcome Brian Sims, Principal at Houseal-Levigne as he discusses "Geodesign + Urban Design: Scenario Planning Tools for Smart and Healthy Cities."

Following Sims' lecture the institution will launch its 2020 Smart and Healthy Cities Forum on October 14th and 15th. This two-day virtual event will discuss topics such as housing, policy making, and smart cities. Guest panelists include ...

Get Lectured: USC, Fall '20

2020-10-05T14:38:00-04:00

As schools welcome the Fall term, their virtual lecture series provides a way for institutions and guest speakers to connect with students and the public across the globe.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The University of Southern California has released its lecture series line-up for the Fall. Leading into the month of November, USC Architecture will welcome Jun Sato from the University of Tokyo and Jun Sato Structural Engineers, Hossein Rezai-Jorabi of WEB STRUCTURES, and Gabriela Etchegaray of AMBROSI | ETCHEGARAY.

Dean of USC School of Architecture Milton S.F. Curry shared in a statement, "Many of this Fall's lecturers have multidisciplinary backgrounds and work towards solving today's pressing challenges, offering our students and greater community ...

Get Lectured: UCLA, Fall '20

2020-10-02T14:57:00-04:00

Virtual events have become the norm for schools across the globe as the Fall term begins. With in-person events and gatherings put on hold, virtual lectures break the attendance barrier and enable participants from all over to join in on these public events.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series features each school's lecture series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has released their line-up of speakers and guest lecturers for the Fall. During the months of October and November, the school will welcome five influential leaders in architectural academia and professional practice. The themes for their 2020 Fall series revolve around conversations on the environment, culture, and urbanism.

To kick off the series, Rania Ghosn, founding partner of Design Earth and MIT Associate Professor of Architect...

Get Lectured: Washington University in St. Louis, Fall '20

2020-09-22T18:54:00-04:00

As schools are ramping up for the Fall term, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured. This ongoing series features each school's lectured series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.

With many schools holding virtual events, distance is no longer an issue when it comes to hearing from design professionals and academics within the industry. Check back regularly to keep track of upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

In preparation for their fall 2020 public events, the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is gearing up for an amazing line-up of 20 speakers addressing topics in urban planning, architecture, and social injustices within architecture, as well as in art and design. The School’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present lectures by several notable speakers ...