Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, the start of the new school year is coming up. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any 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.

PennDesign's Fall '17 lecture series kicks off with Ben van Berkel delivering the KPF Lecture on September 6. Other speakers include Scott Erdy, Barbara Wilks, Timothy Morton, as well as film screenings, conferences, and more.

Sept 6
Ben van Berkel / founder + principal architect, UN Studio
“Arnhem Station: A Station with a Twist”
6:30pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia

Sept 12
Urban Book Talk with Domenic Vitiello / assistant professor of city and regional planning, PennDesign
5:00pm Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Sept 13
A Worker’s Lunch Box: A series of interviews with factory workers by Nina Rappaport from the Vertical Urban Factory
Film screening and discussion with the director and guests
6:30pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia

Sept 14
Public Interest Design Panel + Exchange
“Manifestos: What does Community Engaged Design Mean to You?” 
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Sept 18
Timothy Morton / professor + Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University
“There are More Parts than Wholes”
6:30pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Sept 19
Patrice Frey / President + CEO, National Main Street Center
“Main Streets Now: Preservation-Based Community Revitalization in New Economy”
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Sept 21
Barbara Wilks / founding principal, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
“Structuring Confluence”
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Sept 27 
Keith Krumwiede / director, Krum|Co, California and New York
“Once Upon a Time in Another America”
6:30pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia

Sept 28
Paul Ramirez Jonas - MFA Lecture Series
6:30pm Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia

Oct 4
Frederick Steiner / dean + Paley Professor, PennDesign
“Watching the Light in Rome”
5:30pm Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Oct 11
Mindy Fullilove / Professor of Urban Policy and Health, Parsons School of Design, The New School
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Oct 12
Fredric Quivik / professor of history (retired), Michigan Tech; editor, IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia

Oct 12
Michael Brenson on David Smith
6:30pm Morgan Building, 205 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Oct 13
Philadelphia Panel Discussion on David Smith
10:00am Morgan Building, 205 South 34th Street, Philadelphia

Oct 19
Mike Cloud - MFA Lecture Series
6:30pm Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia

Oct 25
William Whitaker, curator and collections manager, Architectural Archives, PennDesign
“Uncrating Kahn”
6:30pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Nov 1
Robert Stuart-Smith / assistant professor of architecture, PennDesign, and director of Robert Stuart-Smith Design/Kokkugia and the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab: PennDesign and UCL-Computer Science, London
“Behavioral Production”
6:30pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Nov 2
Sharon E. Sutton / professor emerita of architecture and urban design, adjunct professor emerita of social work, University of Washington “When Ivory Towers Were Black: Lessons in Re-Imagining Universities and Communities”
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia

Nov 2
Anicka Yi - MFA Lecture Series
6:30pm Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia

Nov 3
Wendy Lesser
“You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn”
5:30pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Nov 6
Scott Erdy / co-founder and principal, Erdy McHenry Architecture, Philadelphia
“Practical Matters”
6:30pm 

Nov 9
Stanislaus Fung / associate professor, School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Recent Work”
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Nov 15
Penn GIS Day
11:00am – 1:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia

Nov 17-18
“The Culture of Cultivation: Designing with Agriculture” Conference
Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Nov 20
Vladimir Sitta / Terragram, Landscape Architecture + Urban Design, Prague and Sydney
“Recent Work”
6:00pm Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 

Nov 30
Laurel Nakadate - MFA Lecture Series
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia

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