Everyone is talking about AI these days. But what exactly is AI? How did it evolve? And what potential does it have to influence the future? This lecture takes you on a rollercoaster ride looking at the extraordinary - but often somewhat terrifying - potential of what is arguably the most significant invention of humankind. The lecture concludes that we are about to face radically different form of intelligence-and alien intelligence-that will far exceed human intelligence, and completely transform the discipline of architecture.
The inaugural Alan Golin Gass Annual Lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 23, and feature Los Angeles-based architect Ron Radziner, whose first job for an architectural firm while studying at CU Denver's College of Architecture and Planning was working for Gass. Ron now leads Marmol Radziner, an award-winning design-build firm that offers architecture, landscape, interior design, and fabrication services. Ron will be in conversation with Adam Wagoner, AIA Colorado Architect of the Year, Principal of Denver's High, Low, Buffalo, and host of the podcast Architect-ing.
The Columbia University Department of Art History is pleased to announce the Emilio Ambasz Lecture Series: Architecture as Poetry. The inaugural lecture will be presented by the renowned architect Kengo Kuma on the topic of "The Materials and Structues of a Poetic Practice." The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Leo Café, located in the Asia Society's Garden Court.
The next generation of Sub-Saharan Africa’s green and inclusive cities is just around the corner, but only if designers embrace the opportunity. Can small-scale entrepreneurship drive new sustainable housing, or will the overburdened sector fail to meet the challenge of climate change?
Women Architects at Work. Making American Modernism
The Spring Scholars Series: Women + Architecture at Mather Homestead will take place on March 27, 2025. It will feature a discussion on the contributions of women in architecture and how their work is shaping the built environment today. The event will begin with a lecture by the authors of Women Architects at Work, honoring the legacy of Bertha Mather McPherson (1906-1993), one of Connecticut's pioneering female architects.
The devastating fire at Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019 reminded the world of the significance of humanity's built heritage and inspired a resolute commitment to rebuild. The extraordinary project that restored the beloved French landmark in just five years marks a triumph in preservation and a renewed commitment to safeguarding our shared cultural heritage.
RE_SOLUTION: Ahmed Aboutaleb, Rotterdam Mayor 2009-2024 at IE School of Architecture and Design
Lecture by Ahmed Aboutaleb, Rotterdam Mayor from 2009 to 2024. Followed by a conversation with Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr, Young Leaders & Networking Partners, Urban Future and Editor in Chief, Citychangers.org.
Tropical Configurations Lecture by Felipe Mesa, Principal of PLAN B Arquitectos. Felipe Mesa is the founder and principal of PLAN:B Architects, a design practice based in Medellin, Colombia. During the last 20 years, he has built over 50 buildings, with different programs and scales: public spaces, sports, and educational buildings, hotels, offices, houses, and art installations. PLAN:B's work has been selected and exhibited in various venues: Colombian Architecture Biennial, Ibero-American Architecture Biennial, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Biennial of the Americas, Pamplona Latin American Architecture Biennale; and has been published and disseminated in specialized magazines and digital websites: A+U, Architectural Review, Lotus, Domus, Abitare, Arquitectura Viva, Archdaily, Architizer, Designboom. www.planbarq.com Mesa is an Associate Professor in The Design School (Architecture Program) at the Arizona State University. Before this appointment, he was an Assistant professor in the architecture programs of some Universities in Colombia: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellin; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) in Bogota, Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota; and he was Ivan Smith Eminent Visiting Professor at the University of Florida School of Architecture (SoA) - 2014. Felipe understands the architectural project as a provisional pact, a permeable configuration, and a positive expression of the eco-social constraints surrounding us. His projects and research topics related to the practice and teaching of architecture have been published in four books by Mesaestandar Editors: Acuerdos Parciales (2005), Awaiting Architecture (2007), Permeability (2013), Architecture in Reverse (2017); one book by AR+D Publishing: 12 Projects in 120 Constraints (2021); and one book by ORO Editions: Design Build Studios in Latin America (2023).
Fresh/Salt: Design Thinking for Coastal Adaptation
Jeffrey Huber: Jeffrey Huber, FAIA, ASLA, NCARB, LEED AP, WEDG is a principal and manages the South Florida studio of Brooks + Scarpa. In addition to practice, Huber currently serves as a Professor of the School of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University. He holds master's degrees and licenses in both architecture and landscape architecture. A distinguished architect and landscape architect, Huber's work specializes in public realm projects that combine ecological, landscape, urban, and architectural design. He has advanced sustainability initiatives in soft cities, agricultural urbanism, green school design, missing-middle housing, transit-oriented development, low-impact development/green infrastructure, and adaptation/transformation design methodologies to address emerging and future climate disruptions.
Aerial photograph of RICA's Firsy Year Farm and Upper Student Housing. Photo: Iwan Baan
Continuing Professional Development Lecture Series for Professionals
Following the success of its previous three seasons, the CAA is pleased to announce the launch of Season 4 of its Continuing Professional Development Lecture series for professionals.
As Founding Partner of FF&P, Frederick Fisher, FAAR, AIA is a self-described “liberal arts guy.” He is an avid reader, traveler, and arts-lover, and his approach to architecture reflects his innate intellectual curiosity and broad cultural and social perspective. His list of projects includes the renovation of Princeton’s Firestone Library, MoMA/PS1 in New York, The Annenberg Community Beach House, Sunnylands Visitor Center and Gardens, Erburu and Fielding Galleries of the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, and numerous galleries, studios, and homes.
Come join us for the SMC NOMAS Fall Lecture by Ronald Rael on Wednesday, October 2nd at 6:30pm Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd (Orientation Hall) Santa Monica, CA 90405. This event is free and Free Visitor Parking is available on the top level of Parking Structure 3 (entrance on Pico Blvd.).
Ferda Kolatan is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Founding Director of su11. In this event, Kolatan presents new book "Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City." Contemporary cities are shaped, Kolatan observes, by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite the ubiquity of these oddities and their impact on the city, we rarely give them much consideration. In Misfits & Hybrids, Kolatan explores the untapped potential in these unexpected conditions for a new kind of architecture. A diverse array of projects, developed in Kolatan’s design studios at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, illustrates how hybrid artifacts can reveal the often overlooked cultural, socio-political, and material histories of a site, fostering design tactics invested in reinventing the existing. Set within the cosmopolitan megacities of Istanbul, Cairo, and New York, the projects are conceived as real fictions, conjuring novel narrative, aesthetic, and representational forms to reflect the pluralistic postindustrial city
Margolese National Design for Living award winner Jane Wolff is delivering a special public lecture at Melbourne School of Design on her work framing public conversations about how to manage complex and contested landscapes that are subject to change.
