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Peter Fu donates $12 million to McGill School of Architecture

2017-09-27T14:43:00-04:00

Shanghai’s spectacular skyline is studded with buildings shaped by architect Peter Guo-hua Fu. Now the McGill alumnus is setting his sights on a new project: taking McGill’s long history of world-class architecture education to the next level.

Peter Fu, architect and president of K. F. Stone Design says ‘McGill gave me a chance to change my life. Now that I have the chance, I really want to pay it back’. To honor the gift, McGill School of Architecture will be renamed the Peter Guo Hua Fu School of Architecture .

Get Lectured: McGill University, Fall '15

2015-10-20T12:53:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is ready for another school year. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

The next featured poster comes from the McGill University, School of Architecture.

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

Listed below are upcoming events. Lectures begin at 6 p.m. in Room G-10, MacDonald-Harrington Building

Oct 26
Chris Lasch / Aranda\Lasch - New York, Tucson

Nov 2
Li Xiaodong / Li Xiaodong Atelier - Beijing

Nov 23
Rebuilding the Plateau
Marc-André Carignan (moderator)
Tom Balaban
Lisa-Marie Fortin
Stéphane Rasselet

For more, visit mcgill.ca/architecture.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

Get Lectured: McGill University, Winter '15

2015-01-29T12:52:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

The next featured poster comes from the McGill University School of Architecture in Montreal, Canada.

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

Lectures take place on Mondays at 6 p.m. in Room G10 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building, unless noted. Listed below are upcoming lectures only.

Feb 17
Tatiana Bilbao / Tatiana Bilbao S.C.

Feb 23
Manon Asselin, Randy Cohen, Dan Hanganu: The New Architecture of Montreal Libraries
Moderated by Guy Berthiaume

Mar 9
Sylvia Smith / FXFOWLE Architects

Mar 23
Bruce Kuwabara / KPMB Architects

Mar 30
David Newton / McGill University School of Architecture

For furthe...

Get Lectured: McGill University, Winter '14

2014-03-12T12:49:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's poster comes from the McGill University, School of Architecture in Montreal, Canada. Don't miss out on the last few lectures this season!

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

Listed below are upcoming lectures only. Unless noted, Events will take place Mondays at 6:00 pm in Room G10 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building.

MARCH

March 17
Paul Kassabian / Engineer - Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Boston; Lecturer - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT
"Design (R)evolution: New Approaches to Structural ...

McGill University School of Architecture Cyclical Unit Review

2011-10-05T10:25:52-04:00

The new directors of the school, [AA, DC, MB said (on record and in a recording) that the university was a corporation and their first interest was not education. If education is a business, shouldn’t we know what we are paying for?

This document is a copy of the cyclical unit review performed by the University for the SoA in spring of this year. The result of the review may or may not have been the forced resignation of Professor Michael Jemtrud - an visionary individual who was making important and progressive changes within the curriculum of the school. Given that this is such a positive assessement of Jemtrud and his work over the last four years, it begs the question - who were the individuals who had lost faith in his leadership abilities? was this perhaps more because they were threatened by his agenda? and where does the school go from here given that the new director has yet to make a public presentation of her particular vision for the school ?

From the School Blogs: On Loyalties Divided (re: sacking of Michael Jemtrud at McGill)

2011-06-26T12:03:36-04:00

An institution isn't just a logo, a set of buildings and protocols, and the legal and economic capacity to grant degrees, hire employees, and command public attention. It's not a means to an end—a place where you cough up your time, money, and effort in exchange for other goods, such as credentials or a salary. An institution is built on traditions, community, and relationships built one at a time between the people who make themselves a part of it. It is a family, of sorts.

From the School (Live) Blogs: Georg Vrachliotis at 'The Virtue of the Virtual' at McGill University

2011-05-18T18:55:49-04:00

Very excited to be back in Montreal for the next few days, for McGill School of Architecture's conference, 'The Virtue of the Virtual.'