The Architecture/Landscape/Interiors Department at OTIS College of Art and Design is pleased to announce the lecture, reading resilience, by Julia Czerniak, Principal, CLEAR, Syracuse; Associate Dean and Professor, Syracuse Architecture, on Thursday, December 4, 2014.

The lecture will begin at 7:00pm in the Forum, Ground Floor, Kathleen Ahmanson Hall, Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Campus, OTIS College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90045.

The lecture and parking are free and open to the public. Call 310.665.6867 or email ArchitectureLandscapeInteriors@otis.edu for more information.

Professor JULIA CZERNIAK is educated in both architecture and landscape architecture, and serves as Associate Dean at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. Through her own design practice, CLEAR, and most recently as the former Inaugural Director of UPSTATE: Syracuse’s SOA’s Center for Design, Research and Real-Estate, Julia’s research and practice draw on the intersection of landscape and architecture.

Although the techniques, scales and products of her research vary, Czerniak's work focuses on the physical and cultural potentials of urban landscapes. Recent projects advance landscape as a protagonist in the remaking of formerly urban cities, from a series of public space interventions along a derelict creek to ecologically and spatially rich streetscapes for a newly planned campus of Syracuse University, including a new campus entrance along the Dineen College of Law. Her collaborations on complex urban projects include the winning competition schemes for the Syracuse Connective Corridor, artNET Public Art in Toledo, Ohio and the Pittsburgh Charm Bracelet. As Professional Advisor for Movement on Main: Designing a Healthy Main Street, Czerniak foregrounded the potential alignment of public health and new forms of public space.

Czerniak's work as a designer is complemented by her work as educator and writer, which in all cases advances design as a way to enable new ways of seeing and being. Czerniak lectures and teaches internationally.

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top left: Julia Czerniak
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bottom right:100410 Wyoming Ave Rain Basin, by UPSTATE:, rendering by UPSTATE: