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School of Architecture Lectures [97]
Visiting speakers, lectures, and special events presented by the Architecture Program of the College of Architecture
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Navigating the Art and Science of the Landscape
(2019-03-06)Mikyoung Kim shares the work of the Mikyoung Kim Design firm and their research and development of landscapes that focus on environmental and physiological health and well being in the public realm in a lecture titled, ... -
GT EQiA Forum: Identity, Inclusion, Power
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Culture in Architecture: An Expression of Values
(2019-02-27)Zena Howard sees the built environment as an expression of human understanding and our collective values. As a key leader in Perkins+Will’s cultural practice, she will share how she has used the power of design to engage ... -
What Could Go Wrong?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-01-16)Architects, especially those who are interested in becoming the field's intellectual leaders, love to explore the artistic possibilities of rule breaking approaches. The clever ones find ways to introduce new materials ... -
The Carbon Positive City: Building in the Bio-Economy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-07)The contemporary mid- and high-rise city is constructed with mineral-based materials that are extracted, smelted, sintered, or synthesized through intensive fossil-energy fueled industrial processes with significant ... -
The Tectonic Grain
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-24)With an office dedicated to academia, NADAAA –and its principal, Nader Tehrani-- have been dedicated to building bridges between practice and its aligned disciplines for over 20 years. Having taught at Northeastern University, ... -
Diversity & Inclusion Council - Panel Discussion
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-26)The College of Design Diversity and Inclusion Council at Georgia Tech, has invited Peggy McIntosh, Senior Research Scientist and former Associate Director for the Wellesley Centers for Women, Kaye Husbands Fealing, Professor ... -
Public Work – Architecture as Instrument
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-12)Each new or renovated building changes its community. These interventions have consequences in the lives of hundreds, maybe thousands of people who encounter them. Architects face the challenges of program, budget and ... -
New & Improved!
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-14)New work by BLDGS investigating an architecture of adaptation and context-framing transformations. -
Nouvelles Richesses: Curating the French National Pavilion at the 2016 Biennale
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Collective Weathers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-09-29)The crisis of climate change is not simply an environmental project; it is also a socio-cultural project that requires all of the resources of cross-disciplinary design thinking. Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem, co-directors ... -
Light in the Public Realm
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-02-15)At the intersection of art, engineering and architecture "Light in the Public Realm" will explore James Carpenter's focus upon the phenomenological qualities of light as a central organizing principle of the public realm. ... -
Multiple Agendas
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-02-17)Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972 as a collective architectural practice engaged in crossdisciplinary research and design; today, the firm is based in Los Angeles, New York, and Shanghai, with projects built world-wide. ... -
Buildings and Almost Buildings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-02-03)Principals Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang founded nARCHITECTS in 1999 with the aim of addressing contemporary issues in architecture through conceptually driven, socially engaging and technologically innovative work. The ... -
An Urban Experiment - WXY Recent Work
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-01-27)Claire Weisz is an architect, an urbanist, and a founding principal of WXY. With her partners Mark Yoes, Layng Pew, and Adam Lubinsky, Claire focuses on innovative approaches to public space, structures) and cities. WXY's ... -
From Medium Specificity to Medium Technicity
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-10)The notion of pure or 'specific' media, which was highly influential in defining the moment of modernism, had the effect of foregrounding the expressive possibilities of any given medium, beyond that of abstract ... -
The Future of Energy and Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-11)Every year, the world’s population increases by 65 million people, and over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. This afternoon symposium will explore ideas related to 21st ... -
The Future of Housing Affordability and Access to the City
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-11)Every year, the world’s population increases by 65 million people, and over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. This afternoon symposium will explore ideas related to 21st ... -
The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-18)In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing ... -
Toward An Urban Ecology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-12)Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology re-conceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about ...
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