Lecture Series

The School of Architecture (SoA) is pleased to present its Fall 2020 lecture series, featuring five public events offered virtually. The series opens on September 25 with Jack Travis, FAIA, NOMAC.

The Yale School of Architecture has announced the events to be held during October 2020. From Rebecca Choi's "Surveillance and Self-Determination: The Black Workshop" to Kate Wagner's "Embracing the Discourse: New Horizons in Architectural Criticism".

Frameworks For Interaction is a series of webinars organised by Nomada with institutional partnership from the Chamber of Urban Developers from Argentina. In this series of webinars we will be talking with international speakers regarding the future of buildings, cities and the way we live and work.

This year, the University of Nebraska's Hyde Lecture Series, hosted by the College of Architecture, will feature speakers from across disciplines that are united under the common theme of “Building Justice- Design and Planning for a Just Society.”

CANactions School Talk is a series of online talks and offline events investigating «How does the world change in the face of global challenges?». It is aimed to share global knowledge, unite, and consolidate professionals around the globe.

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture for “Architecture or Computation”, a lecture with Peter Eisenman and Mario Carpo, live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel on Wednesday, September 9 at 12:00 pm CDT

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York is pleased to announce its new SCIAME Global Spotlight Lecture series, “Far South” curated by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch.

Renowned Architects & Designers are here to generate an inquiry and an architectural/urban expression of the “Open City”, the participative and inclusive city, the life-affirming city. In doing this, the proposal is to create an alternative narrative, a creative challenge to the notions of 'city' that remain purely organizational, narrowly symbolic, exclusionary, and controlling.

As part of its annual Architecture Residency Program, the Steven Myron Holl Foundation and 'T' Space offers a Virtual Public Lecture Series, featuring practicing architects, scholars, and esteemed art professionals.

Institute of Architects Pakistan-Karachi Chapter (IAP-KC) and the Board of Architectural Education (BAE-IAP) are excited to announce the webinar series, “Rethinking Architectural Education in South Asia” to be held every Saturday, 5pm PKT (+5 GMT), starting 18th July - 08th August, 2020.

This summer, as part of our special issue "Provisions // Observing & Archiving COVID-19", The Site Magazine will host its first online event series with The Architecture Foundation, Critical Distance, BEAT, and Triennale Milano.

The lecture series "​Architecture and the City in the Post-Industrial Age​" is organized to commemorate Kengo Kuma's 11 years of his professorship at the University of Tokyo Department of Architecture and the retirement from the school in 2020 March. Each lecture session invites leading figures in various fields not limited to architecture. Nine sessions have been held between April 2019 and February 2020. The final session which was postponed due to COVID-19 will be held online on July 18th.

Free live event caters to major industries using real-time technology, including more on Unreal Engine 5

Epic Games announced Unreal Fest Online, a free global event taking place on Tuesday, July 14, with registration open now. Covering five content tracks with over 50 sessions (including live Q&A), and an attendee lounge for networking, the packed event caters to creators of all levels across games, media and entertainment, automotive, architecture/AEC, and other fields. To register, visit: unrealengine.com/unrealfestonline

Videos

One Week Series of Free 24/7 Online Workshops and Talks, 27 June to 3 July 2020. There are 30 talks with occurring 3 times each day to cover all the time zones in the world. Topics covering International Practice, AI and Architectural Practice, Reappraising the City, Agency, Borders and Immigration, Architects and Locality, Digital Technologies in the Post-Pandemic Future, The Future of the University, Bio-Futures, Transculturalism: The Space in Between, and many more.

These days architecture schools are trying to figure out how to conduct lectures and seminars, studios and crits online. But it is just as well a test of the very foundations of architectural education. Do we need architecture schools? Do we need them to change? Are they capable of change, to prepare to deal with this crisis and the next to come?