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ARCH Lecture
Michael Weinstock is an architect and is currently Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design program in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Born in Germany, Weinstock lived as a child in the Far East and then West Africa, and attended an English public school but ran away to sea at age 17 after reading Conrad. He spent years at sea in traditional wooden sailing ships, with shipyard and shipbuilding experience. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1982-88 and has taught at the AA School of Architecture since 1989 in a range of positions, from workshop tutor through to Academic Head. DCRP Colloquium Martin Wachs Lecture
What’s Wrong with U.S. Public Transit Policy? Though public transit is widely supported and subsidized, it is not meeting key goals like mobility for the disadvantaged and getting people out of cars. Looking at four decades of policy, Professor Giuliano argues this is due to the search for public support. Planners and others advocate for better public transit as a means to achieve a broad array of urban planning objectives: attracting people out of private vehicles; reshaping U.S. metropolitan areas; solving congestion, energy and air pollution problems; and revitalizing urban neighborhoods. Public transit is also promoted as a means to supply basic mobility for those who have no or limited access to private vehicles. Over the past four decades, support for public transit has greatly increased. Yet public transit continues to serve a small share of the travel market even in the largest metropolitan areas, where it has a larger market share only in the central cores of these areas. Genevieve Giuliano was named the Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government in 2009 for her work in regional transportation policy. She also holds courtesy appointments in Civil Engineering and Geography. Professor Giuliano's research focus areas include relationships between land use and transportation, transportation policy analysis, and information technology applications in transportation. LAEP Lecture
Pierre Bélanger teaches graduate courses in landscape, infrastructure and urbanism in the interrelated fields of planning, design and engineering. He is the editor of the Landscape Infrastructures DVD published by the National Research Council of Canada and recipient of the 2008/2009 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts. As a member of the internationally recognized Harvard Project on the City led by architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, Bélanger completed graduate studies for the Master of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where he received the Janet Darling Webel and Norman T. Newton Prizes in Design. Prior to that, he worked as a project manager for Brinkman & Associates, Canada's largest reforestation and bioengineering contractor. Bélanger is professionally registered as a landscape architect and urban planner as well as certified in Canada as a surface miner, skilled in precision earthmoving and heavy equipment operations. ARCH Lecture
Dan Wood and Amale Andraos This lecture is sponsored by the Howard A. Friedman Endowment Fund. An exhibition of WORKac's work runs from February 7-March 11, 2011, in 108 Wurster Hall. WORKac develops architectural and urban projects that engage culture and consciousness, nature and artificiality, surrealism and pragmatism. The firm's projects range from a master plan for the new BAM cultural district in Brooklyn, to a single family villa in Inner Mongolia, China. Recent completed projects include the installation "Public Farm 1" at PS1/MoMA and the new headquarters for Diane von Furstenberg. Current work includes the new Kew Gardens Hills Library in Queens, the extension of the Clark Art Institute at Mass MoCA, a new Children’s Museum for the Arts, and the first Edible Schoolyard New York City with Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation. In addition, WORKac’s entry for the redesign of Hua Qiang Bei Road, Shenzhen, was recently awarded first place in an international competition. Dan Wood, AIA, LEED, received his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from Columbia University. Wood is an adjunct professor at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He has taught at the TU Delft, the Cooper Union, Columbia University and the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University where he served as both the Trott and Baumer visiting studio professors of design. Wood is originally from Rhode Island and has lived in Paris and for many years in the Netherlands before moving to New York in 2002. Wood is a licensed architect in the State of New York. Amale Andraos received her B.Arch. from McGill University in Montreal and her M.Arch. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is a visiting professor at Princeton University’s School of Architecture and has taught at numerous institutions including Harvard and Columbia Universities, the University of Pennsylvania, the Parsons School of Design, and the American University in Beirut. Andraos was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She has lived in Saudi Arabia, France, Canada, and the Netherlands prior to moving to New York in 2002. She currently serves on the Architectural League of New York’s Board of Directors. ARCH Lecture
Brigitte Shim Brigitte Shim has been a professor, since 1988, at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and trained at the University of Waterloo with degrees in environmental studies and architecture. She has served as the 2010 Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, 2008 Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University, 2006 University of Buffalo Martell Visiting Critic, 2005 Eero Saarinen Visiting Chair at Yale University, 2002 Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 2001 Ray and Charles Eames Lecturer at the University of Michigan, 2001 Bishop Visiting Chair and Visiting Bicentennial Professor of Canadian Studies at Yale University, and an invited visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1993 and 1996. Brigitte Shim is also a principal in Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, formed in 1994 and reflects her passion for the integration of architecture, landscape and furniture. Shim-Sutcliffe have been honoured with eleven Governor General’s Medals and Awards for Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada for public and private projects such as the Corkin Gallery, Ravine Guest House, Craven Road Studio, Ledbury Park, Laneway House, Moorelands Camp Dining Hall, Weathering Steel House, Muskoka Boathouse, along with design recognition from the American Institute of Architects and the Canadian and American Wood Council’s awards programme. Buildings, landscapes and furniture designed by Shim-Sutcliffe have represented Canadian design in international exhibitions and their built work has been published widely in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Brigitte Shim is currently serving on the Waterfront Toronto and the University of Toronto Design Review Committees, the Build Toronto board of directors and has served on the National Capital Commission’s Architectural Advisory Board. She is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Royal Canadian Academy. She was a member of the 2007 Master Jury for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. ARCH Lecture
Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect. He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group, which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi. In his designs, Ingels often tries to achieve a balance between playful and practical approaches to architecture. Ingels studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona, receiving his diploma in 1998. As a third-year student he set up his first practice and won his first competition. From 1998-2001 he worked for Office of Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam. In 2001, Ingels returned to Copenhagen to set up the architectural practice PLOT together with Belgian OMA colleague Julien de Smedt. The company rapidly achieved success, receiving significant national and international attention for their inventive designs. They were awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004 for a proposal for a new music house for Stavanger, Norway. Their first major achievement was the award-winning VM Houses in Ørestad, Copenhagen, in 2005. Despite its success, PLOT was disbanded in January 2006 and Ingels created Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG, while his former partner founded JDS / JULIEN DE SMEDT ARCHITECTS. With BIG, Bjarke Ingels has continued the ideology from PLOT and has several major projects under construction or development both in Denmark and abroad. These include BIH House in Ørestad and the new Danish national Maritime museum in Elsinore, hotel projects in Norway, a high-rise designed in the shape of the Chinese character for 'people' for Shanghai, a master plan for the redevelopment of a former naval base and oil industry wasteland into a zero-emission resort and entertainment city off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan, shaped as the seven mountains of the country, and a museum overlooking Mexico City. Under the BIG Banner Ingels recently published "Yes is more - an archcomic on architectural evolution." LAEP Lecture
Paul Kephart Renowned designer, biologist, and expert in land-use planning, Paul Kephart, M.Arch., is best known for his pioneering efforts in Living Architecture, an alternative approach to conventional development through sustainable design strategies. Kephart has developed a profound understanding of natural processes over the course of almost thirty years of master planning, architectural design, landscape design, and project management. Kephart is frequently sought out for his expertise in land-use, permitting, compliance regulations and zoning approval. He regularly consults with developers, government agencies and other private sector businesses. Kephart is also known for his knowledge and design of large-scale wetlands, coastal and native grassland restoration projects. His expertise in sustainable architecture and ecologically sound landscape design has positioned him as an expert in ‘restorative’ buildings and site integration. Kephart regularly shares his expertise and passion at public lectures and keynotes for USGBC, ASLA, and various universities. ARCH Lecture
Adriana Navarro-Sertich, Eleanor Pries, Melissa Smith Please join us for presentations by the returning Branner Fellows on their year-long, worldwide travels and research.
Berkeley Circus Soiree Lecture
Teddy Cruz is a Guatemalan-born architect and founding principal of Estudio Teddy Cruz in San Diego. Over the past decade, he has demonstrated a deep commitment to advancing architectural and urban planning projects that address the global, political, and social problems that proliferate at the international border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. His firm, Estudio Teddy Cruz, has been recognized for its collaborative work with community-based, non-profit organizations such as Casa Familiar on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and public programs for the city. Cruz founded the Border Institute (BI), dedicated to research on border urbanism at Woodbury University. Cruz also has a research and teaching post as Artist in Public Culture/Urban Space in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. His work and writing are widely published, and he is recipient of a Rome Prize, a P/A Award, the Robert Taylor Teaching Award from the ACSA, and numerous AIA Honor Awards. DCRP Colloquium
The Systems View of Life The author of worldwide bestsellers The Turning Point, The Tao of Physics, and The Web of Life will discuss the contributions of nonlinear dynamics, or "complexity theory," and the relevance of the systemic conception of life to some of the critical problems of our time. Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. The center is best known for its pioneering work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula. Dr. Capra is on the faculty of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in England. His most recent book, The Science of Leonardo, was published in 2007. CED Lecture
Contemporary Landscape in the Urban Environment Kathryn Gustafson will provide a glimpse into the methodology of her work, including recent projects with both of her firms, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol in Seattle and Gustafson Porter in London. Gustafson's award-winning landscapes and structures can be found throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Her diverse span of prominent works, ranging from one acre to 500 acres in size, are known as ground-breaking, contemporary designs that intuitively incorporate the sculptural, sensual qualities that are fundamental to the human experience of landscape. Gustafson is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture, an honorary Royal Designer for Industry, and a medalist of the French Academy of Architecture. She is the recipient of the Chrysler Design Award and of London’s Jane Drew Prize. She is active in lecturing, and her work is widely published. Gustafson's recent work in both offices may be found in such projects as the Westergasfabriek Culture Park in Amsterdam, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the Seattle Civic Center and City Hall Plaza, and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in London. Image: Charles Hopkinson. DCRP Colloquium
Circuits of Knowledge and Techniques: The Transnational Flow of Planning Ideas and Practices Author of the book Collaborative Planning, Professor Healey was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Gold Medal for her contributions to the field. Her talk will explore actor-network theory, policy ‘discourse analysis,’ hegemonic projects, the origin and traveling stories of ideas, and the ‘translation experiences’ through which the ideas and practices get ‘localised.’ Healey is a professor emeritus in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. She is widely known for her work on planning theory, on strategic spatial planning for city regions and on urban regeneration policies. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1999 and the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Gold Medal in 2007. In 2009, she was made a Fellow of the British Academy. ARCH Lecture Arcus Lecture David Serlin is an associate professor of communication at UC San Diego. He has served as a historical consultant for the History Channel, the National Building Museum, the National Institutes of Health, PBS, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Smithsonian. He is the author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2004) and the author and/or editor of many other publications. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is a member of the editorial collective for the Radical History Review. LAEP Lecture
Martin Rein-Cano TOPOTEK 1 is a landscape architecture studio that specializes in the design and construction of unique urban open spaces. Founded by Martin Rein–Cano in 1996, the studio’s roster of German and international projects has ranged in scale from master plans to private gardens. Rein–Cano studied art history at Frankfurt University and landscape architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe. He has worked at the offices of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in San Francisco and with Gabi Kiefer in Berlin. ARCH Lecture
Minsuk Cho Minsuk Cho was born in Seoul and graduated from the Architectural Engineering Department of Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) and the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University (New York, NY U.S.A.). He began his professional career working for Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, and Polshek and Partners, both in New York City, and later relocated to the Netherlands to join OMA. Through these jobs, he gained experience in a wide range of architectural and urban projects implemented in various locations. In 1998, with partner James Slade, he established Cho Slade Architecture in New York City to be engaged in various projects both in the U.S.A and Korea. In 2003, he returned to Korea to start his own firm, Mass Studies, where he remains the principal architect. The firm focuses on the critical investigation of architecture in the context of mass production, intensely overpopulated urban conditions and other emergent cultural niches that define contemporary society. Instead of striving for a singular, unified perspective, Mass Studies focuses on the operative complexity of multiple spatial conditions. The group is currently working on projects of various scales, ranging from small residential projects to large towers. They began working solely in Korea and are now expanding their reach internationally. DCRP Colloquium
Whose Domain is Eminent: Kelo and its Aftermath Jerold S. Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research and teaching focus on law and the built environment as well as public-private urban development. His books include Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience; Landmark Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America's Communities; and Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still To Keep. He has also written numerous articles on property rights and government regulation, smart growth, design codes, and market-based regulatory instruments. As urban planner and lawyer, Professor Kayden has served governments, non-governmental organizations, and private developers around the world. He has represented clients in court, appeared as expert witness, and written amicus curiae briefs in significant U.S. Supreme Court land-use cases. For the past 15 years, he has been the principal constitutional counsel to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.. He founded and heads Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space, a non-profit organization in New York City whose mission is to improve that city’s zoning-created plazas, arcades, and indoor spaces. CED Lecture
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, LEED AP, leads Studio Gang Architects, an architectural practice noted for its innovation and leadership in design. Ms. Gang’s work has staked out new creative territory in materials, technology, and sustainability. Her work with Studio Gang has received national and international awards and recognition, and has been exhibited at the International Venice Biennale, the National Building Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her recent projects include the Columbia College Media Production Center, the Ford Calumet Environmental Center targeting LEED Platinum, and the Aqua Tower, an 82-story high-rise in downtown Chicago. Ms. Gang’s practice includes a continuing commitment to architectural education. In addition to serving as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology since 1998, she was a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2004, the 2005 Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, and a visiting lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Architecture in 2007. Ms. Gang was also chosen to lecture as one of the Architecture League of New York’s Emerging Voices in the spring of 2006, and received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the same year. Image: Dane Tashima. DCRP Colloquium
Connecting Urban Open Space: Implementing Metropolitan Greenways in North American Cities In communities across North America, the protection of open space is a critical priority, with the protection and restoration of natural landscapes seen as key ways to control sprawl, reverse environmental degradation, and curb urban blight. The importance of connected patches and corridors of green space across metropolitan landscapes is increasingly recognized, where greenways connect landscapes with each other and with people. Donna Erickson is a land-use and landscape planning consultant in Missoula, Montana, with particular expertise in the conservation of open and working land. Erickson was a professor at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, where her teaching and research focused on open-space and landscape-scale conservation planning. Her book, MetroGreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities, was published in 2006 by Island Press. ARCH Lecture Jeremy Till joined the University of Westminster in 2008. Previously he was Professor of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and before that at University College London. He has pursued a dual life as architect and educator. As an architect, he worked with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, with whom he designed the seminal house and office, 9 Stock Orchard Street (The Straw House and Quilted Office), which has received extensive international attention and received numerous awards, including the prestigious RIBA Sustainability Prize. In 2006 he was selected to curate the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Till is the only person to be twice awarded the RIBA President’s Award for Research. Till is author of The Everyday and Architecture (Academy Editions, with Sarah Wigglesworth), Architecture and Participation (with Peter Blundell Jones and Doina Petrescu), Flexible Housing (with Tatjana Schneider, Architectural Press 2007), and a major book on architectural theory and design, Architecture Depends (MIT 2009), which was selected as book of the week in the Times Higher Education and which was awarded the 2009 RIBA President’s Research Award. This lecture is co-sponsored by Department of Architecture professors Margaret Crawford and C. Greig Crysler. DCRP Colloquium
Rethinking Federal Policy for Cities and Regions: A Planner's View of — and from — the Obama Administration's ‘Place Policy’ Agenda Xavier de Souza Briggs, in his current role at the White House Office of Management and Budget, oversees most of the federal agencies which affect urban and regional planning. As fiscal expert Roy Bahl once told Congress, "There has always been a federal urban policy. Unfortunately, no one has ever known what it was." That is in part because of confusion over what "urban" policy means and in part because of the lack of consensus — particularly since the 1960s — over what that policy should be. The need to tackle environmental sustainability, unemployment, long-run economic inequality and competitiveness, and health, among other national priorities, and to do so in the context of staggering budget deficits and low public trust in government, only underscore how crucial it is for federal leadership to reflect a less confusing, more vigorous approach. Author of The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America, Briggs has a national reputation for his work on social capital and the consequences of segregation by race and income in cities. He founded and directs the Community Problem-Solving Project at MIT, a free learning space for people and institutions worldwide to access useful tools for problem-solving in the field. He was previously on the faculty of the Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard. He also served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1998-99. ARCH Lecture Sylvia Lavin Sylvia Lavin, who was chair of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design from 1996-2006, is a leading figure in contemporary architectural history, theory, and criticism. A fellow at the Getty Research Institute in 2004-05, she has taught or lectured at most of the major programs of architecture around the world, including Columbia, the Berlage, Harvard, Princeton, the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst, Yale, and the Architectural Association. Her writings have been published in Assemblage, Domus, Daidalos, Progressive Architecture, Grey Room, Perspecta, and A+U. She frequently serves as a jury member for international competitions and consults with institutions such as the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Getty Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Society of Architectural Historians. Lavin is the author of Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture (MIT), Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture (MIT Press), Crib Sheets (Monacelli), and is working on a new book, A Flash in the Pan and other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from Columbia University and her B.A. from Barnard College. |
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Michael Weinstock
Genevieve Giuliano
Teddy Cruz
Fritjof Capra
Kathryn Gustafson
Patsy Healey, O.B.E.
David Serlin
Jerold Kayden
Jeanne Gang
Donna Erickson
Jeremy Till
Xavier de Souza Briggs