This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, include the second session of Exhibit Columbus' Design Presentations this Friday. Other events to tune into this week feature Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Ana María León, Torsten Lange, Bryan Lee, Jr., Lesley Lokko, and Sumayya Vally.

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Lecture: Raúl Cárdenas Osuna
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Raúl Cárdenas Osuna is the founder and director of Torolab, a collective workshop and laboratory of contextual studies that identifies situations or phenomena of interest for research, basing the studies in the realm of lifestyles to better grasp the idea of quality of life. He holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana as well as a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of California in San Diego.
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Ana María León and Torsten Lange, “Bodies of Work: Activism, Gender, Architecture”
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Architectural historians Ana María León and Torsten Lange consider the labor of organizing around issues of gender in architecture. Based on three precedents, they will reflect on their work and practice and highlight how the present has allowed scholars and practitioners to revise architectural historiography.
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Exhibit Columbus 2021 Design Presentations
Friday, March 26, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Exhibit Columbus announces the 2021 Design Presentations The Design Presentations unveil design concepts for the 2021 Exhibition and invite the public to participate in the creative process Over the course of four sessions on March 19 and 26, 2021, Exhibit Columbus will host the 2021 Design Presentations. The second public event in the 2020-21 cycle of Exhibit Columbus New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City? invites the public to preview design concepts of thirteen site-specific, future-oriented public installations and experience the design process first-hand. Please register for the free sessions and learn more. Each will allow AIA architects to earn 2 LUs
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Mary W. and Arthur Q. Davis Lecture on Design Justice: Power + Place
Monday, March 29, 2021 | 5:15 PM – 7:15 PM EDT
Bryan Lee, Jr. will be presenting the annual Mary W. and Arthur Q. Davis Lecture on Design Justice: Power + Place on Monday, March 29, 2021 from 5:15-6:30pm. Lee is the Designer Principal and Founder of Colloqate and a national Design Justice Advocate.
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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design 2021 Symposium
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 | 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
This symposium unites two parallel cultures engaged in system thinking: designers working at many different scales and the environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) community of researchers, data experts, and information interface providers. It will explore areas of common cause and mission in two sectors: building and transportation.
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Lesley Lokko + Sumayya Vally, Counterparts: This Fragile Condition - Architecture, Autonomy and Allegiance
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
A dialogue on race, gender, identity, and difference.
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