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. 

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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."

With that said, the school continues their lecture series with a book launch and discussion on October 16th with Erkin Özay and Paola Aguirre Serrano as they discuss Ozay's new book, Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore (Routledge, 2020). On October 21st, Jennifer Newsom presents this year's Bethune Lecture where she will discuss racial constructs within the built environment as a gateway for public engagement in design.

On October 28th, the school will host its Rebuilding the Built Environment: Pedagogy in Practice Symposium. Speakers include Quardean Lewis-Allen (B.S.Arch‘09), Garnette Cadogan (MIT/University of Virginia), Daphne Lundi (NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency), Mira Henry (SCI-Arc/Current Interests), and Charles Davis (M.Arch‘02). The symposium is organized by AASAP (African American Students of Architecture and Planning), with support from UBNOMAS (UB National Organization of Minority Architecture Students). Closing the Fall lecture series is a lecture from Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban planning at UB School of Architecture and Planning. 

All events are free and open to the public but registration is required. To learn more about University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning virtual lecture series and register click here.