PennDesign is pleased to announce the Spring 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.
1 / 21 David Benjamin Adaptation Principal, The Living and Assistant Professor, Columbia GSAPP 6:30 PM
1 / 26 Florian Idenburg To Be Determined Principal, SO – IL, and Associate Professor, Harvard GSD 6:30 PM
1 / 29 David E. Nye Illuminations and Expositions: Reinventing the American City 1875 –1915 Professor of American History at the University of Southern Denmark 6:00 PM
2/2 Richard Saul Wurman Information Architect/ TED Founder 2015 Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Integrated Product Design Lecture 6:30 PM
2/4 Antoine Picon Architecture and the Digital: From Structure to Ornament Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design 6:30 PM
2/5 Laurie Olin Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture, PennDesign and Founding Partner, OLIN McHarg Lecture 6:00 PM
2 / 9 Nanako Umemoto and Jesse Reiser Effects of a Distance Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, New York 6:30 PM
2 / 11 Kelly Shannon Professor at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, Oslo School of Architecture and Design 6:00 PM
2 / 12 Amie Siegel Visiting Artist Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University 6:30 PM, Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art
2 / 19 Jamal Cyrus Visiting Artist 6:30 PM, Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art
2 / 26 Susan Macdonald Head of Field Projects, Getty Conservation Institute 6:00 PM
2 / 26 James Casebere Howard A. Silverstein & Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Photography Lecture 6:30 PM, Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art
3/5 Walead Beshty Professor, Art Center College of Design Howard A. Silverstein & Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Photography Lecture 6:30 PM, Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art
3/19– 3/20 SYMPOSIUM Simulating Natures Keynote: James Corner Professor, PennDesign, Founder and Director, James Corner Field Operations 6:00 PM / 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM REGISTRATION REQUIRED
3 / 25 Tom Leader Recent Work Principal, Tom Leader Studio Sponsor 6:00 PM
3 / 26 Julia Fish Visiting Artist Professor of Studio Art, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art and Art History 6:30 PM, Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art
4/8 Eran Neuman On the Face of It: Video Mapping and the Architectural Façade Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University and OSA 6:30 PM
4 / 13 Pierre Belanger 1:1 billion: On Landscape, Infrastructure, Power Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD and Director, OPSYS Landscape Infrastructure Lab 6:00 PM
4/14 Ron van Oers Reconnecting the City Vice Director, World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific (WHITRAP) Shanghai, China 6:00 PM
4 / 18 CONFERENCE Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property (ANAGPIC), 2015
EXHIBITIONS White Towers Revisited On view 1/16 – 4/17 Harvey and Irwin Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives University of Pennsylvania School of Design 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia 1 / 15 6:00 – 8:00 PM Exhibition Opening Reception & Remarks
Feats of Clay: Brick in America On view 4/30 – 8/28 Harvey and Irwin Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives University of Pennsylvania School of Design 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia
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