PennDesign is pleased to announce the Fall 2015 Lecture Series, featuring a range of award-winning architects, urban planners, theorists, designers, and artists.
Except where noted, all lectures are free and open to the public and will be held at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design's Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA. Continuing education credits are available for select lectures.
Please note times and locations are subject to change. Contact the respective department or visit www.design.upenn.edu/calendar for the most current information.
9/2 Mark Foster Gage Recent Projects, Giant Lizards, Object Oriented Philosophy, Stupid Diagrams, Kitbashing, Mjolnir, Interactivity, Mario Bros, Styrofoam, Aesthetic Theory, Robot Legs, Transdisciplinarity and Laser Cats Principal, Mark Foster Gage Architects, New York, NY and Assistant Dean, Yale School of Architecture 6:30PM
9/8 The Woof & Warp of Sustainability B.D. Wortham-Galvin Assistant Professor, Portland State University 6:00PM
9/14 Gary Hilderbrand Visible | Invisible Partner, Reed Hilderbrand; Professor in Practice, Harvard GSD 6:00PM
9/16 Hervé Descottes Working with Light Principal, L’Observatoire Interational Inc, New York, NY USA 6:30PM
9/24 Melinda Moulton The Power of Naivete - The Re-development of the Burlington, Vermont Waterfront Chief Executive Officer, Main Street Landing 6:00PM
9/28 Iñaki Echeverria Soft Infrastructure / Design Engineering Director & Founder, Iñaki Echeverria & Asociados, Mexico City 6:30PM
9/29 Keith Bowers “Restoring the Future: What exactly does this mean in a rapidly changing world?” President, Biohabitats 6:00PM
10/1 Torbjørn Rødland Visiting Artist Fine Arts Lecture Series Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art 6:30PM
10/5 Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs Larry Beasley Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning at the University of British Columbia & Founding Principal, Beasley and Associates Jonathan Barnett Emeritus Professor of Practice, PennDesign 6:00PM
10/15 Heather Rowe Visiting Artist Fine Arts Lecture Series Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art 6:30PM
10/26 In conversation: from Fine Arts to Product Design Sara Baldwin Founder, New Ravenna Mosaics Kevin O’Brien Founder, Kevin O’Brien Studio 6:30PM
10/28 Rob Rogers The Impact of Small Things Partner, Rogers Partners Architects+UrbanDesigners, New York, NY Book: Learning Through Practice, ORO 2014 6:30PM
10/29–10/30 SYMPOSIUM: Urban Parks and the National Park Service of the Future 6:00PM Keynote Session on 10/29 All Day Symposium on 10/30 Co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Northeast Region/National Park Service
11/4 THE EWINGCOLE LECTURE: Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi PUBLIC NATURES: Evolutionary Infrastructures WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape Urbanism, New York Book Information: PUBLIC NATURES: Evolutionary Infrastructures Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press 6:30PM
11/9 Mario Carpo The New Science of Data: Simulation, Optimization, and Structural Form-Finding Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett, UCL, London 6:30PM
11/11 Jacinta McCann Recent Work Executive Vice President, AECOM, San Francisco 6:00PM
11/12-11/13 SYMPOSIUM: City Futures Keynote 6:30PM on November 12. All day symposium on November 13
11/16 Hitoshi Abe Recent Works, Corridor and Informality Architect; Chair, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design; Principal, Atelier Hitoshi Abe Sendai/Los Angeles 6:30PM
11/17 David Myers The Arches Project Senior Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute 6:00PM
11/19 Panel discussion led by Professor Carolyn Adams, Temple University From the Outside In: Suburban Elites, Third-Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia 6:00PM
11/23 Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey Recent Work Directors, O'Donnell + Tuomey, Dublin, Ireland 6:30PM
12/2 Dirk Sijmons Recent Work Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture TU Delft, The Netherlands 6:00PM
12/3 –12/4 SYMPOSIUM: Historic Preservation in Contemporary China 6:00pm Keynote Session on 12/3 All Day Symposium on 12/4 Organizers: Randall Mason, HSPV; Nancy Steinhardt, EALC Co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and the Dean’s Office/School of Design and School of Arts & Sciences
ON VIEW: NOVEMBER 6, 2015-JANUARY 29, 2016 Barton Myers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism Harvey & Irwin Kroiz Gallery / Architectural Archives 220 South 34th Street at Smith Walk
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