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Get Lectured: Syracuse University, Fall '22

2022-09-26T09:30:00-04:00

Archinect continues its Get Lectured series by highlighting the Fall 2022 lectures and public events held by Syracuse University School of Architecture.

September 8 was the exhibition opening of 2021-22 Harry der Boghosian Fellow Leen Katrib. Caitlin Meives and Christopher Brandt presented the Francis E. Hares Preservation Lecture on September 13. New York-based author, editor, and columnist, Matt Shaw presented a lecture on September 15.

UC San Diego's Kelema Lee Moses, Ph.D. will present a lecture discussing urban island design and curatorial response on September 27. Soft Firm co-founder and D. Kenneth Sargent Visiting Critic Lexi Tsien will showcase projects and examples of collective/DIY building and their relationship to public space and the public realm on September 29. B.Arch alumni, Brad Rubin '05, presents "Non-Traditional Careers: A Journey from SU Architecture to Hollywood" on September 30.

On October 6 and 7 award-winning filmmaker Deng Wei presents the documentary fi...

Get Lectured: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Spring '22

2022-01-24T19:20:00-05:00

Continuing with Archinect's Get Lectured Spring '22 edition, we share the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning's upcoming lectures, events, and exhibitions programming via Zoom and in-person.

Kicking off SARUP's lecture series is "Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968" on February 25. The lecture will be joined by Sarah Rafson and Roberta Washinton (in-person) and Lori Brown + Andrea J. Merrett (via Zoom). The presentation is in conjunction with an exhibition that will run from February 4 through April 29.

On March 4, Kimberly Dowdell (HOK) will present a lecture titled "Leading By Design." March 18 will feature a lecture presentation from Julia Gamolina (Madame Architect and Ennead Architects) titled "Towards Madame Architect: Intuitive Evolution on Two Parallel Tracks."

Jennifer Newsom (Dream the Combine) will present her lecture "Making (IT) Work" on April 1. April 8 will feature a lecture from Emanual ...

Shaping the City: European Cultural Centre launches third edition in unison with Chicago Architecture Biennial

2021-12-08T17:51:00-05:00

As part of its ongoing Shaping the City series, the Italian branch of the European Cultural Centre is being represented in this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial with an upcoming conference that will begin this Friday, December 10th, hosted by the Chicago Cultural Center on East Washington Street in the city’s New Eastside.

The conference’s third edition will tackle themes of architecture and the people and re-imagining the city via side-by-side comparisons of major global capitals in America and Europe.

The event is set to last three days separated into two sections that will include speakers like Ennead’s Don Weinreich, Tulane University’s Edson G. Cabalfin, ASPECTSS* consultant Magda Mostafa, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s Artistic Director David Brown.

Session I will explore the ascendent social issues of the day through an examination of new architectural val...

Get Lectured: Carleton University, Fall/Winter 2021–22

2021-11-16T14:31:00-05:00

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University announces its 2021–22 Forum Lecture Series: Re-Assemble. Open to students and the public, the school's online lectures run from September 2021 through March 2022.

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"From building materials to community connections, theoretical frameworks to programmatic uses, structural components to project teams, the notion of assembly is at the core of architecture," the school shares. "It is through these broadly defined yet interconnected assemblies that we construct our built environment. As we navigate new ways of convening and interacting with one another following the easing of lockdowns, the 2021–22 Forum Lecture Series turns to these many processes of arch...

Get Lectured: East Los Angeles College, Fall '21

2021-10-19T13:04:00-04:00

The Department of Architecture at East Los Angeles College announces its Fall 2021 lecture series. Open to students and the public, the school features three lecture presentations from four esteemed Los Angeles-based architects.

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Kicking off their Fall lecture events is a presentation from Michael Lehrer of Lehrer Architects on November 5. On November 19 Julie Smith-Clementi and Frank Clementi of Smith Clementi will give a joint lecture followed by a presentation from Barbara Bestor of Bestor Architecture on December 3.

To learn more about ELAC's architecture department events follow them on Facebook and Instagram. These virtual lecture events are held on Zoom. To access each even use the QR code located on the sc...

Get Lectured: SCI-Arc, Fall '21

2021-10-04T14:31:00-04:00

October is here and SCI-Arc shares their Fall 2021 events and lecture series. With an exciting line-up of guests, the school will be showcasing two exciting exhibitions in addition to their hybrid lecture program.

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

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Kicking off the month of October SCI-Arc will be hosting "Expanding the Archive: A Graduate Thesis 2021 Film" from October 1 - 10. On October 6, Marion Weiss of Manfredi/Weiss will give her lecture "Liftoffs and Landings" on October 6. Florian Isenberg will present his lecture "Strings Attached" on October 13 followed by a lecture given by Alison Saar titled "The thread that leads the word" on October 20.

The opening reception of David Freeland's exhibition "Views from the Field" will take place on Oct...

Get Lectured: Tulane University, Fall '21

2021-09-29T11:18:00-04:00

Continuing with Archinect's coverage of Fall 2021 lecture programs Tulane University School of Architecture presents its public lecture program. The school shares their series "highlights the unintended outcomes, contrarian thinking, and humility of learning something new in the course of research and/or practice."

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On October 18 the school welcomes a presentation from Rebecca Elliott, Assistant Prof of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Elliott will present a lecture titled, "Losing Ground: Values at Risk in an American Floodplain." Following Elliott is a presentation from Rania Ghosn titled "Geostories" on October 25 from founding partner of DESIGN EARTH and Associate Professor at MIT Archtiecture.

For...

Get Lectured: Washington University in St. Louis, Fall '21

2021-09-27T19:38:00-04:00

Fall is upon us and as the school term is well underway architecture schools continue to roll out their Fall 2021 lecture series. Continuing with Archinect's coverage of lecture programs we feature presentations from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

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

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The school will present 17 virtual and in-person events as part of its fall public lecture series. On September 20, Marcelo Spina and Constance Vale spoke with Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, about the book Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (2021), authored by Spina and Georgia Huljich and edited by Vale.

On September 27 the school hosted a panel discussion...

Get Lectured: MIT, Fall '21

2021-09-15T12:07:00-04:00

This Fall, MIT Architecture's lecture series consists of a series of hybrid events that continues with their theme focusing on "where we are now." The school shares that this year's series will "confront visionary symbolism, extraordinary mechanics, decolonial maneuvers, new methods of computational craft, situated technologies, design research, spaceships in the desert, conversations on care, and the enduring power of defiant optimism."

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

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Starting their Fall lecture series is a presentation from interdisciplinary artist and MLK Visiting Scholar, Sanford Biggers on September 16. Architect, researcher and scholar Vernelle A. A. Noel will discuss computation design and its ties to community and pedagogy on September 23. The Edward ...

Get Lectured: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Fall '21

2021-09-10T11:54:00-04:00

As this year's Fall term begins, schools welcome back students and faculty as they continue with in-person and remote learning. In continuing to highlight public lecture programs from architecture schools, we continue our Fall 2021 Get Lectured series by featuring this year's lecture program from the New Jersey Institute of Technology J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design.

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

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With this year's theme, Design as Research, the school kicks off the month of September with lectures from Andrea Love of Payette on September 13 and Marion Weiss of Weiss/Manfredi on September 30. NJIT's very own Hannah Kum-Biocca will present her talk on October 11 followed by a presentation from Perkins & Will's Monica Ku...

Get Lectured: Syracuse University, Fall '21

2021-09-07T13:02:00-04:00

Continuing with our coverage of Fall lecture programming from architecture schools, Syracuse University School of Architecture announces their Fall '21 lecture line-up.

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

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Starting on September 10, the school's Syracuse Orange Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) kick off the lecture series with a presentation highlighting the legacy of the trailblazing architect Thomas W. Boyde Jr. '28 (B.Arch) on September 10. Boyde Jr. was the first Black architect in Rochester, N.Y., and the first Black graduate of the School of Architecture.

Following this presentation are a series of special lectures in a Drawing Workshop series led by the school. The first set of lectures will be given by Li Han...

Get Lectured: UT Austin, Fall '21

2021-09-04T10:00:00-04:00

Continuing with our coverage of Fall public programming from schools of architecture across the nation the University of Texas at Austin announces their Fall 2021 lecture and ever series.

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

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Kicking off their lecture program is a presentation from Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger on September 15. Alberto Viega of Barozzi Veiga will present his lecture on "The Work of Barozzi Viego" on September 27 and Coren Sharples of ShoP Architects will present a talk on "Material Practice" on September 27. The month of October welcomes presentations from esteemed architecture critic Michael Kimmelman on October 4, a presentation on "Site, Matter, Gesture" from Anne Holtrop on October 11, and a presentation discussing work within grassro...

Get Lectured: University of Toronto, Winter/Spring '21

2021-02-12T18:42:00-05:00

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto shares their upcoming Winter 2021 lecture series. Through the months of January through March, the school invites speakers who will address "the urgency of our contemporary challenges, and the opportunities of our diverse programs — architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, visual studies, and forestry."

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

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This season, the department shares "a series of thematic discussions titled Resolutions and Agencies, continues our exploration of design’s capacity to respond to activism, resilience, decolonization, density, narrative, and justice, among other topics. Lectures provide an in-depth view on a topic by one speaker, while...

Get Lectured: Cal Poly Pomona, Spring '21

2021-02-10T20:05:00-05:00

Continuing with their ENV Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture series Cal Poly Pomona Department of Architecture College of Environmental Design (CPP/ARC) presents their Spring 2021 public programs. Co-sponsored by the College of Environmental Design the Bernard Zimmerman Lecture Series runs from February 17th through April 14th.

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On February 17th the department welcomes Marina Tabassum principal of Marina Tabassum Architects and former Aga Khan Award winner for Architecture. The month of March features Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee on March 3rd and Sean Canty of Studio Sean Canty on March 10th. Architect and President of the Walt Disney Imagineering Barbara Bouza will speak on April 9th. Concluding the spring lecture ser...

The HBCU Africa Architecture Lecture series brings the voices of Black architects and the African Continent together for representation and discourse

2021-02-04T17:52:00-05:00

Here at Archinect, we highlight academic events and lectures that provide insight and access to public programming created by architecture schools. Year after year, these events welcome various leaders and innovators within architecture, design, and its adjacent fields of study. While in-person events are put on hold, the ability to engage and invite a global audience is possible thanks to virtual events outlets. 2021 welcomes an exciting series of talks, panels, and lectures that we've featured in our 2021 Get Lectured series and Archinect's Virtual Event Guide. However, an upcoming lecture series creates an opportunity for a much-needed platform for Black design professionals to share their work, expertise, and initiatives for change.

Archinect Feature by Sean Joyner: "Discovering a Black Aesthetic in Architecture" — An Investigation by Woodbury Grad Demar Matthews. Image courtesy of Demar Matthews

February is Black History month, and the rise in promoting and highlighting Black ex...

Get Lectured: Woodbury, Spring '21

2021-01-27T16:57:00-05:00

Woodbury School of Architecture announces their Spring 2021 lecture series. With an exciting list of speakers and panelists, the school focuses its lecture series tackling issues on climate justice.

Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured 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.

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On January 26th the school kicked off their lecture series with Alan Ricks co-founder of Mass Design Group. For the month of February, the lecture series features Diego Romero Evans of Romero Silva Arquitectos and Ananya Roy Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography (...

Get Lectured: Kennesaw State University, Spring '21

2021-01-20T15:44:00-05:00

Kennesaw State University's Department of Architecture welcomes an array of distinguished guest lectures for their Spring 2021 lecture series. Located in Kennesaw, GA the department "nurtures critical thinking, embraces new technologies and encourages creativity and innovation through the integration of the theory, art, technology and science of the built environment."

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

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On January 15th the department welcomed Lorcan O'Herlihy of Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects. February will showcase ...

Get Lectured: University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Spring '21

2021-01-15T19:29:00-05:00

For their virtual lecture series, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has focused their Spring semester lectures on "Building Justice- Design and Planning for a Just Society."

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

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At the university, the Hyde Lecture "is a long-standing endowed program within UNL’s College of Architecture [...] To confront it, the 20-21 Hyde Lecture Series brings lecturers who believe that design and planning should be explicitly engaged with fostering a just society. Doing so is an act of hope requiring, not only, an awareness of true inequity, but also a compulsion to refute it in its many forms."

During their 2021 Hyde Lecture Series and continuing from their Fall series the school has planned 2 lunch and learns followed by 2 Hyde Lec...

Get Lectured: Columbia GSAPP, Spring '21

2021-01-12T16:16:00-05:00

As we enter the Spring term, schools begin to roll out their events and lecture series. For most schools, much of their Fall and Winter lecture programming was spent adjusting and addressing current events happening across the nation. This year schools have taken what they've learned from last year's challenging months and present a new set of public talks from impactful voices.

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

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From January through March Columbia GSAPP ...

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.

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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...

Charles L. Davis II discusses an "antiracist framework for architectural history"

2020-11-03T18:14:00-05:00

2020 has stirred up architectural discourse as practitioners, academics, and students address racial and social inequality within the industry. With the turbulent Summer months sparking the nation to mobilize and bring social and racial justice to the forefront, academic institutions have used their Fall lecture series as a way to bring these discussions to light within their campus community.

Earlier this October, Harvard GSD invited Charles L. Davis II, assistant professor of architectural history and criticism at the University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. As a designer, architectural historian, and cultural critic, his work focuses on racial identity and race thinking related to architectural history and contemporary culture. In his lecture, "Cannon Fodder: Debating the Racial Politics of Canonicity in Modern Architectural History," Davis presented a series of physical and textual case studies that re-examine architecture's understanding of "western canon to ...

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.

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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: 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: 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.

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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...

Mimi Zeiger combs SCI-Arc media archive to create lecture playlist highlighting feminist thought in design

2020-03-09T18:02:00-04:00

Los Angeles-based critic and curator Mimi Zeiger has developed Feminisms: 1974 to Now, a curated video playlist of lectures that have taken place at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) over the decades highlighting "feminist thought and dialogue" at the institution.

The playlist, dubbed a "Collection," is hosted on the newly-launched SCI-Arc Channel website, a dedicated online space that makes available videos created over the last 30 or so years from the school's lecture series, collected via the SCI-Arc Media Archive. Zeiger's Collection includes contributions from Design, Bitches, Penelope Spheeris, Dolores Hayden, Phyllis Birkby, Beatriz Colomina, Sheila da Brettaville, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Keller Easterling, Esther Choi, Izasjun Chinchilla, and Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

The lectures focus on a variety of topics that stake a claim the for "feminist outlooks [that] shape our work and our world," Zeiger writes in an introduction for the collection. Ze...

SoapBox: Manifestos

2017-11-13T16:14:00-05:00

Soapbox is a new weekly series delivering a curated set of lectures, talks and symposia concerning contemporary themes but explored through the archives of lectures past and present. With the plethora of lectures, talks, symposia and panels occurring world wide on a daily basis, how can we begin to keep up and if not, find them once they are gone? Soapbox looks to assemble a selection of recent, archived and outlier lectures surrounding a given theme. Soapbox looks to curate this never-ending library of ideas into an engaging and diverse list of thoughts and provocations. Soapbox is just that, a collection aimed at discovering the occasional needle in a haystack.

This week, in its first offering, we present. Manifestos. A selection of videos whose topics or purpose was to present if not reinforce, Manifestos.

1. GSAPP: What happened to the Architectural Manifesto Series

a. Enrique Walker, Felicity Scott and Anthony Vidler on the architectural manifesto. (2011)

b. Beatriz Colomina,...

Get Lectured: East Los Angeles College

2014-10-11T00:27:00-04:00

In its second season of lecture series, East Los Angeles College presents three lecturers for the Fall semester. Lectures are free, open to public and held every other Friday night at 7:30 pm starting Oct. 21st. in Vincent Price Museum.

Friday, Oct. 24 @ 7:30 pm, Robert Alexander

Friday, Nov. 7 @7:30 pm, Andrew Wilcox

Friday, Nov. 21 @ 7:30 pm, Mitchell De Jarnett