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All events take place in 112 Wurster Hall and are free and open to all unless otherwise noted. See Exhibitions for shows of work related to the lecture series and a special exhibition on the history of CED that runs through January 5, 2010, in the Environmental Design Library. Fall Lecture Schedule
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Jennifer Wolch Lively Cities Cities can be life-sustaining environments, promoting human and ecological health, trans-species knowledge and interaction, active recreation and play. How can environmental design move beyond existing practices of good city form rooted in green building, smart growth, and landscape urbanism, in order to define a more inclusive model for "post-green" urbanism? Using examples from current research on active living, remnant urban space, urban food systems, and ecological planning, Wolch shows how a new agenda can link humans, animals and nature together to create a livelier urban world. Jennifer Wolch is a leading scholar of urban analysis and planning, and has authored or co-authored over 100 academic journal articles and book chapters on topics such as urban homelessness and affordable housing. As the founding director of the University of Southern California's Center for Sustainable Cities, she worked to promote sustainable metropolitan development through research, education, and policy outreach programs. Her most recent work analyzes connections between city form, physical activity, and public health, and develops strategies to improve access to urban parks and recreational resources. Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Florian Idenburg Solid Objectives Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL) is a proactive agency that develops ideas in the realm of art, architecture and the city. Our ambition is to play a participatory and catalytic role in processes and projects that enhance the exchange and realization of ambitiously progressive ideas. Distilled artifacts include buildings, writings, exhibitions and lectures. Current topics of interest comprise an exploration of the hidden potential within a condition of decline, the idea of biodegradable urbanism and the effects of ubiquitous technology on urban and architectural typologies. Through rigorous diagramming, driven by a desire to enhance the experience of spaces and relationships, we seek to develop singular and beautiful solutions. As a product of education and experience in the Netherlands, China and Japan – with these particular country’s respective optimism in the feasibility of the architectural project – we vehemently believe in testing our attitudes in the real world. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Florian Idenburg gained his experience and recognition through his work at Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, a design firm based in Tokyo, Japan, where he worked from 2000 till 2007. At SANAA, he was involved in a number of key projects, most notably the Stadstheater in Almere, the Netherlands, the Institut Valencian d’Art Modern in Spain, the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio and most recently the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York. For the latter two he was co-designer and associate in charge. From 2006 till 2007 Mr. Idenburg has held the position of Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Currently, he is a Design Critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP. He is a frequent lecturer, panelist and critic at universities and institutes throughout the U.S. and abroad. His writings appear regularly in magazines such as Domus, A+U and others. In his teaching he has been exploring the possibilities of working in conditions of decline. Findings of these studios and a further exploration of that theme are the subject of a forthcoming book published by Lars Müller publishers, scheduled for release in fall 2009. Monday, September 14, 2009
Taira Nishizawa How to Create Contemporary Architecture Taira Nishizawa was born in 1964 in Tokyo and established his architecture studio in 1993. He has received many awards including the AR awards 2005. He is a visiting lecturer at six universities, including Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music and Tokyo Science University. Mr. Nishizawa's works integrate the "duality" in contemporary architecture. The formal aspect of the architecture and the vulgar aspect of contemporary society are always put together dramatically in his works and changed into a new type of beauty by his methods. Major works include HOUSE TACHI-KAWA (1996), HOUSE KUMA-GAYA (1997), HOUSE O-TA (1998), HOUSE SU-WA (1999), HOUSE AKI-SIMA (2004), HOUSING CHO-FU A (2003), HOUSING CHO-FU B (2003), and FORESTRY HALL TO-MOCHI (2004). His writings are a conquest of the 20th-century theories of functionalism and formalism, and include DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE (2000), CLUSTERS, CONFIGRATIONS, ACTIVITIES (2001), BODIES AND ACTIVITIES (2003), BODIES, ACTIVITIES, STRUCTURES (2004), and BODIES AND THE BODY (2005). His monograph is entitled "TAIRA NISHIZAWA 1994-2004" (TOTO Shuppan, ISBN 4-88706-237-0). Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Frederic Schwartz, FAIA THINK: Global Frederic Schwartz is an award winning architect and planner with particular expertise in affordable, sustainable housing. He is the recent winner of the Guangzhou International Master Plan competition and was also selected by the citizens of New Orleans and the New Orleans City Planning Commission to re-plan one third of the city for 40% of its post-Katrina population. Schwartz is credited with changing the course of post-9/11 planning in New York City through his work, which facilitated an open site for the 9/11 memorial and a way to repair the city’s skyline. The New York Times repeatedly published his ideas including a profile, “The Man Who Dared the City to THINK Again.” Schwartz’s ideas also provided the framework for The New York Times Magazine “Think Big” Planning Study on the first anniversary of 9/11. He founded THINK—an international group of architects selected to master plan and re-imagine Ground Zero. Subsequently, Schwartz was unanimously selected by the family groups to design both the New Jersey State and Westchester County 9/11 memorials to honor more than 900 loved ones. As winner of an international competition, he is the architect for the new Staten Island Ferry Terminal at the tip of Manhattan, which serves 70,000 commuters every day. Schwartz is a recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture and was selected by the Architecture League of New York for both the Young Architect’s Award and as an Emerging Voice in Architecture. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University, Schwartz has taught at Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Penn, and has lectured extensively in America, Europe, China and India. Monday, October 12, 2009
Shane Coen The New Landscape of Collaboration Coen + Partners is a nationally renowned landscape architecture practice with studios in Minneapolis and New York City. Our landscapes are influenced by people and place. We collaborate extensively with top and emerging global design talent to create site designs integrating programmatic, architectural and ecological goals with innovation and beauty. Our interventions emphasize the materials, textures, and rhythms of our contemporary era and the regions where we work. During the past fifteen years, Coen + Partners has received over twenty design awards and has been recognized by AIA, ASLA, the Committee on Urban Environment and influential publications such as The New York Times, Metropolis, and Dwell. Coen + Partners received a Progressive Architecture citation in 2003 for Mayo Plan #1. This citation, given for the radical interpretation of a standard subdivision plat, is only the second time a landscape architecture studio has won the prestigious P/A award in its fifty-plus year history. Principal Shane Coen also received the Special Award for Collaborative Work in 2006 from the American Institute of Architects Minnesota Chapter. Most recently, Coen + Parters was awarded two National ASLA honors for their urban and residential work. Also in 2009 Shane was awarded the Emerging Voice Award, an international award awarded annually by the Architectural League of New York. Coen + Partners recently finished a two year collaboration with the Walker Art Center and the Carnegie Museum of Art on ‘Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,’ a nationally traveling exhibit that wrapped up in June 2009. ‘Worlds Away’ featured our new approach to community design within the context of American suburbia. Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Reflections on the Experiences of a Designer/Architect Tobia Scarpa is a renowned Italian architect and interior, furniture, and lighting designer. He has a career spanning over 50 years with his wife and partner, Afra Scarpa. Biographical information: Timeline of Tobia and Afra Scarpa's career: Monday, October 26, 2009
Green Urbanism: Planning for Resilient and Biophilic Cities Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last eighteen years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively in these areas, including the following books: Ethical Land Use (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth (University of Texas Press, 1994); Natural Hazard Mitigation (Island Press, 1999, with David Godschalk and others); and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (Island Press, 2002, Second Edition, with David Brower and Anna Schwab). In recent years much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. To this end, he is the author of The Ecology of Place (Island Press, 1997), with Kristy Manning, which reviews innovative local sustainability practice from around the country and provides practical guidance on creating more sustainable urban form, restorative local economies, and stronger communities. Beatley has recently returned from a year’s research in Europe, specifically examining the experiences of some 30 cities, in twelve European countries. The findings of this study have been published in a book entitled Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities (Island Press, 2000). He is also the author of Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age (also published by Island Press, December, 2004). His most recent book is Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change (Island Press, 2008, with Peter Newman and Heather Boyer). Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Eric Owen Moss Too Much is Not Enough
Over the last 30 years Eric Owen Moss Architects has built a wide array of award-winning buildings and has helped shape the discourse of architecture internationally. That discussion continues to manifest itself both in the continuing production of innovative structures, in lectures, exhibitions, publishing, and teaching around the world. Along the way, the EOM office has been recognized with well over 50 local, national, and international awards. Eric Owen Moss was the recipient of the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. He received the AIA/LA Gold Medal in 2001 for the achievement of an outstanding body of architectural works. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and was a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects, East Bay Chapter. Monday, November 9, 2009
Elizabeth Mossop Agency in Urban Landscapes Elizabeth Mossop is a Principal of Spackman, Mossop+Michaels Landscape Architects and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. Prior to taking up this position in 2004, she was Associate Professor and Director of Masters in Landscape Architecture Programs in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design where she was a faculty member from 1999. Her work specializes in the design of the public landscape, parks, urban spaces and infrastructure in Australia and the US. Recent projects include Cook and Phillip Park, Western Sydney Regional Park, Bicentennial Park and the Great Western Highway. Numerous awards, including the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, the Council of Building Design Professions, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the Australia Council, have recognized her work. Monday, November 16, 2009
This Could Be the Start of Something Big Dr. Manuel Pastor is on leave from his position as Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is currently a Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California where he directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and co-directs the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. Professor Pastor has received grants and fellowships from the Irvine Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and many others. Dr. Pastor's most recent book, co-authored with Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka, is This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Transforming Metropolitan America (Cornell University Press 2009). He has also co-authored, with Chris Benner and Laura Leete, Staircases or Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy (Russell Sage, 2007). He co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (W.W. Norton, 2002). He also co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), a book that has become a reference for those seeking to better link community and regional development. Dr. Pastor speaks frequently on issues of demographic change, economic inequality, and community empowerment and has contributed opinion pieces to such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Christian Science Monitor. He served as a member of the Commission on Regions appointed by California's Speaker of the State Assembly, and in January 2002 was awarded a Civic Entrepreneur of the Year award from the California Center for Regional Leadership. Monday, November 23, 2009
ARO Work ARO principal Stephen Cassell, AIA, holds an undergraduate degree in architecture from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Stephen has taught numerous times at Harvard, Princeton, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Virginia, where he has held two distinguished visiting professorships. In 1998, Stephen received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to study the relationship between computer-aided design and craft. Together with fellow ARO principal Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, he was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Architecture in 2000. He is a member of New York City's Green Code Task Force Technical Committee for Climate Adaptation. |
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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the College of Environmental Design, the Departments of Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning are joining together in the collegewide CED Lecture Series.
Tobia Scarpa
Tim Beatley
Eric Owen Moss was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1965. Moss continued his education, earning his Master of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, in 1968 and a second Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1972.
Manuel Pastor
Stephen Cassell