This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, address race, urban planning, sustainability and the future of cities.

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MLK Annual Lecture, Melvin Mitchell, FAIA
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Melvin L. Mitchell, author of Build Something Big! One Million New Affordable Housing Units, 2020-2030 and Black MD’s, Lawyers…and Architects, will be giving the MLK Annual Lecture for USC.
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Richard Rothstein: THE COLOR OF LAW: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Richard Rothstein is the author of THE COLOR OF LAW: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. A Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In addition to his recent book, The Color of Law, he is the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found at his web page at the Economic Policy Institute.
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Restorative Justice, Loving Engagement, and Black Women
Monday, February 1, 2021 10:00 AM – Thursday, March 4, 2021 1:00 PM PDT
Black Lives Matter Week of Action is a national, student-run event, held during the first week of February, dedicated to unapologetic conversations and presentations on Black culture, expression, and justice. SCI-Arc’s prestige is based on revolutionary conversations demonstrating a direct influence on the educational spectrum and the overall discourse of design.
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Lecture by Francis Kéré with response by Amale Andraos
Monday, February 1, 2021 6:00 PM – Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:00 PM EDT
Francis Kéré is an internationally renowned Burkinabè architect, recognized for his pioneering approach to design and sustainable modes of construction. His vocation to become an architect comes from a personal commitment to serve the community he grew up in, and a belief in the transformative potential of beauty.
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Book Launch: The Ideal City
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Join SPACE10, IKEA's research and design lab, for a discussion with Helle Søholt (Gehl), Bjarke Ingels (BIG), and Sam Cochran (Architectural Digest), for a conversation surrounding building better cities for tomorrow, with a sneak peek at SPACE10's new book with gestalten, The Ideal City.
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