People Talking About Architecture – 05.04.2006

Washington DC:
Conference - The Architecture of Sustainability
2:00 PM (May 4 - May 7, 2006) - AIA National Headquarters
The conference will consider the impact of sustainability on architectural design.

New York:
Discussion - Allan Temko Honorary Critics Panel
6:00 PM - Newman Institute For Real Estate Studies (137 East 22nd Street)
In memory of Allan Temko, former architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, this conversation focuses on the question of activism in architectural criticism. Panelists will include Robert Campbell of the Boston Globe; Paul Goldberger of the New Yorker; and John King of the San Francisco Chronicle.

New York:
Craig Borum & Karl Daubmann, and Julio Salcedo – Young Architects Series
6:30 PM - The Urban Center (457 Madison Avenue)

Los Angeles:
ForumFest IV Honors Thom Mayne
7:00 PM - Petersen Automotive Museum
The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents an evening of toasts, roasts and libations to honor Thom Mayne, recipient of the 2005 Pritzker Prize.

Simon Frasier University:
Claire Bennie - Innovations in Smart Growth Housing
7:00 pm - Segal Building, (500 Granville Street)
The Research Manager from Peabody will speak about the award-winning brownfield redevelopment site known as BedZed. Beddington Zero Energy Development, is an environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient mix of housing and work space in Beddington, UK. Her lecture will discuss how to successfully integrate the characteristics of smart growth housing such as walkability, energy efficiency, affordability, and proximity to jobs and shopping.

People Talking About Architecture – 05.05.2006

Pittsburgh:
Tod Williams & Billie Tsien - Wake 2006 Commencement Lecture
7:00 PM - Riverwalk Corporate Center (333 E. Carson Street)

Harvard University:
Dolores Hayden - The Power of Place, Urban Landscape as Public History
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium
The Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies at Yale University and the author of "The Power of Place", “Building Suburbia : Green Fields and Urban Growth”, “A Field Guide to Sprawl”, and “Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life” will lecture.

University of Westminster:
SuperCrit #5 - Rem Koolhaas presents Delirious New York
10.00 AM - Room M421 (35, Marylebone Road, London
Written in 1978, Delirious New York has been called the end of architectural utopias, celebrating congestion, fantasy, ambivalence and the confrontation of high and low cultures. The Panel of critics include Mark Wigley (Dean of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (principal of Foreign Office Architects, and former student of Koolhaas), and David Greene, (Archigram). The panel will be chaired by Paul Finch, editor of The Architectural Review

People Talking About Architecture – 05.03.2006

Harvard University:
Bjarke Ingels - Architecture and Evolution
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

New York:
PERSPECTA 38: Architecture After All (Launch Party)
6:30 PM - USM Modular Furniture (28-30 Greene Street)
“Perspecta 38: Architecture After All probes various issues of contemporary research and practice—globalization, urbanism, ideology, image and technology, as well as form, pedagogy, theory and meaning. The essays are cross-sections of a larger topic at hand, as the field calibrates itself through investigation of network practices and interdisciplinary exchange, the changing role or relevance of theory, and technique enabled by technology.”

Stanford University:
Joseph Tanney - The Modern Modular by Resolution: 4 Architecture
6:30 PM.- Cubberley Auditorium
The firm's most current efforts have been focused on leveraging existing methods of prefabrication and the potential for mass-customization to produce a viable modern option in the housing market. Mr. Tanney will likely speak about recently earning the 2006 American Institute of Architects housing award for innovation in housing design.

Catholic University:
Joseph Brown - Recent Work
6:00 PM – Crough Center

People Talking About Architecture – 05.02.2006

New York:
Lebbeus Woods: SYSTEM WIEN
6:30 PM - The Urban Center (457 Madison Avenue)

New York:
Zheng Shilling - Comtemporary Shanghai Architecture and Growth
6:30 PM – The Asia Society Museum (725 Park Avenue)

Harvard University:
Katrin Scholz-Barth - Inevitable City-Scapes Merging Landscape, Architecture and Engineering
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium
The Principal of Katrin Scholz-Barth Consulting amd author of Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure, will speak.


Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Wiel Arets - Curtain
6:30 PM - Room 10-250

People Talking About Architecture – 04.28.2006

Washington DC:
Rem Koolhaas - Spotlight on Design Lecture
7:00 PM – National Building Museum
In his first lecture in Washington since 1996, he will discuss his recent and current projects—including store designs for Prada, the Seattle Public Library, the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the CCTV Television Station and Headquarters in Beijing—and share his views on the current state of architecture Following his lecture, he will sign copies of his many books.

People Talking About Architecture – 04.27.2006

Rice University:
David Pmpierre - The Great Beyond
6:30 PM - Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall
The architect and Associate Professor at the Ecole d'Archietcture will deliver a the concluding lecture for Rice’s Current Trends In French Architecture And Urbanism Lecture Series.

Harvard University:
Jorge Silvetti - Recent Work
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (42 Quincy Street)

Dallas:
Luis Mansilla - Lecture
7:00 PM - Dallas Museum of Art, Horchow Auditorium (1717 N. Harwood)

New York:
Yansong Ma & Yosuke Hayano - Young Architects Lecture
6:30 PM. – The Architecture League (457 Madison Avenue)
Yansong Ma & Yosuke Hayano, MAD Office, Ann Arbor and Betsy & Shane Williamson, WilliamsonWilliamson, Toronto will present their work as part of the Young Architects Forum – the annual competition and series of lectures and exhibitions.

People Talking About Architecture – 04.26.2006

University of California, Berkley:
Thom Mayne - Continuities of the Incomplete Print
7:00 PM - 112 Wurster Hall

Cornell University:
Emily Thompson - The Soundscapes of Modernity
6:30 PM - Lecture Hall D (Goldwin Smith Hall)

Princeton University:
Farshid Moussavi - Work in Progress
6:00 PM - Betts Auditorium

New York:
Robert Costanza - Integrating Ecology, Economics and Design …
6:30 PM - Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street
Mr. Costanza is director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at UVM, a "transdisciplinary research and teaching institute that integrates natural and social science tools to address environmental research, policy and management issues at multiple scales, from small watersheds to global systems.” The full title of his lecture stretches Integrating Ecology, Economics and Design to Create a Sustainable and Desirable Future

New York:
Victoria Meyers - Designing With Light
6:30 PM - Urban Center
Using examples of the work of Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and others, the author illustrates light's relationship with architectural elements like color, glass, and shadow.

Illinois Institute of Technology:
David Chipperfield - Recent Work
6:00 PM - Crown Hall

People Talking About Architecture – 04.25.2006

London:
Alain de Botton - ‘The Question of Beauty in Architecture’
6:30 PM - Jarvis Hall, RIBA (66 Portland Place)
De Botton will ask and explore, “What is a beautiful building? To be modern is to experience this as an awkward and possibly unanswerable question, the very notion of beauty having come to seem like a concept doomed to ignite unfruitful and childish argument.”

Harvard University:
Julie Snow – Recent Work
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (42 Quincy Street)

People Talking About Architecture – 04.24.2006

Harvard University:
Discussion - "Ornament?"
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (42 Quincy Street)
A discussion that will track the concept of “ornament” and how it has swayed back and forth from appeal to revulsion. Panelist will explore the almost complete saturation of digital media into our design culture, and ask “What role does, can, or will the notion of ornament play? What is critical about ornament in the digital age?” Participants include Mark Jarzombek, Antoine Picon, Joe MacDonald, and Mark Goulthorpe.

People Talking About Architecture – 04.21.2006

Princeton University:
Symposium -- New Downtowns: A Conference on the Future of Urban Centers
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM -- Robertson Hall. Princeton University
Scholars, policymakers, economists, architects and planners will discuss downtowns' shift from commercial centers to 24-hour mixed-use communities and will consider the social, political, and economic driving forces behind this change and the planning and design standards new downtowns should reflect, with a particular focus on urban centers in NY, NJ, and PA. Speakers include Andrew Alper; Anthony Shorris; Richard Voith; Elizabeth Strom; Eugenie Birch; Vishaan Chakrabarti; Larry Goldman; Carl Weisbrod; Mitchell Moss; Richard Monteilh; Paul Levy; Barbara Faga; Susan Bass Levin; Susan Wachter.

New York:
Jonathan Schwinge and Ian Abley - Manmade Modular Megastructures
6:30 PM - The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
These editors of the book with the same name posit the idea that "the opportunity to create a world of expansive megacities will advance the art, science and processes of manufacturing, particularly if we can shrug off the dogma of sustainability that insists only small can be beautiful." They suggest that designers can learn from materials scientists working at the smallest of scales, and from systems manufacturers with ambitions at the largest- while development must aim for the integration of global systems of transport, utilities and IT in gigantic structures, constantly upgraded, scraping both the sky and the ground, outward into the sea.

Cornell University:
Robert Somol - Possibilities of Fact
6:30 PM - Lecture Hall D (Goldwin Smith Hall)

People Talking About Architecture – 04.20.2006

Columbia University:
Symposium - The Critical Legacies of Manfredo Tafuri
9:30am–6:00pm -- Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
From the Columbia Website, “A decade after his death, Manfredo Tafuri continues to occupy a pivotal position within contemporary architectural discourse both as a protagonist of the critical debates of the 1970s and as a historian who elucidated every period of architectural history from the fifteenth century to the twentieth. In addition to marking the publication of the English translation of his last work, Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects, the conference will take this event as an occasion for a new assessment of his critical legacies.” Speakers will include Mark Wigley; Daniel Sherer; Diana Agrest; Marco de Michelis; Andrew Leach; Peter Eisenman; Kenneth Frampton; Preston Scott Cohen; Anthony Vidler; Reinhold Martin; Joan Ockman; Mark Rakatansky; Carla Keyvanian; and (of course), Guido Zuliani.

New York:
The Metropolis View: A Discussion on Photographing Architecture
6:30PM - Art Directors Club, 106 West 29th Street at 6th Avenue
Criswell Lappin will discuss the issues surrounding the photography of architecture with Metropolis Magazine photographers Kristine Larsen, Michael Moran and Sean Hemmerle.

Harvard University:
Jan Gehl - The Human Dimension in Architecture and City Planning
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

People Talking About Architecture – 04.19.2006

Kansas State University:
Eric Hanson - Digital Fiction: New Worlds in Film Environments
3:30 PM -- Little Theatre, K-State Student Union
The Visual Effects Designer for Visura Imaging, in Los Angeles was trained originally as an architect. This lecture will round out Kansas’s lecture series for the school year.

Cornell University:
Moshen Mostafavi - Nurturing Urbanism
6:30 PM - 157 East Sibley Hall

Princeton University:
Farshid Moussavi - Work in Progress Lecture
6:00 PM - Betts Auditorium
A chance to catch up on the recent work of Forgien Office Architects.

Harvard University:
Kazuyo Sejima – (Untitled Lecture)
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

Stanford University:
Jennifer Luce – Informed by Art
6:30 PM - Hewlett 201

Boston:
Scott Tilden - Museum Design in America
6:00 PM - Boston Public Library
The author of Architecture for Art: American Art Museums, 1938-2008 explores the current ‘golden age’ of art museum design through the work of Santiago Calatrava, I.M. Pei, Frank Lloyd Wright, Renzo Piano, Louis Kahn, Zaha Hadid, and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

University of Texas at Austin:
Hoidn Wang Partner and David Heymann - 2x2: Gallery Talk
5:00 PM - Mebane Gallery

People Talking About Architecture – 04.18.2006

New York Institute of Technology:
Discussion - Peter Eisenman and Michael Graves
6:30 PM – 4 Columbus Circle
This could be good. It marks the second public lecture/discussion by Mr. Graves since his illness.

University of California, Berkley:
Takaharu & Yui Tezuka -Roof-less Architecture Print
7:00 PM - 112 Wurster Hall
The Friedman Visiting Professors will deliver something that resembles a home-turf lecture.

New York City:
Discussion - Green Teams
6:30 - Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street
Randolph Croxton, the author of the Sustainable Design Guidelines Reference Manual for WTC Redevelopment Projects, will assemble colleagues to discuss extending a green metropolitan model. The full title of this discussion is Green Teams: How Sustainablity Succeeds in Business - Green Ground Zero: Guidelines for Downtown and Beyond.

Princeton University:
Rodrigo de Arce - Santiago Arid Zone: Elementary Urbanism.
6:00 PM - Betts Auditorium

Pratt:
Francois Roche - Once Upon a Time.
12:00 PM -- Higgins Hall Auditorium

Harvard University:
Holly Getch Clarke - Dioramic Modes
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

People Talking About Architecture – 04.17.2006

Washington University:
Robert Mccarter – Louis I Kahn
7:00 PM - Steinberg Auditorium
The practicing architect, and professor of architecture, and author will talk about his new book, but which one? His name is on three published in the last three years: Louis I. Kahn (Phaidon Press, London, 2005); On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (Phaidon Press, London, 2005); Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Lives (Reaktion Books, London, 2006).

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien - What Do We Know?
6:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Kansas State University:
Mikko Heikkinen - Old Ditch—New Water
2:00 PM -- Forum Hall, K-State Student Union

New York:
Bill McKibben -- Deep Sustainability: Building Communities that Actually Work
6:30 pm -- Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
The first in a two-part lecture series organized by the Architecture League, Mr. McKibben will discuss how climate change and peak oil may shift our idea of what constitutes a desirable and workable city. Focusing on possibilities generated by emerging local economies, McKibben will discuss examples from around the world, including Havana, Cuba and Curitiba, Brazil, as well as the United States. This lecture is coincidentally timed a day after a New York Times piece about on green building and LEED certification in New York.

University of Texas at Austin:
Mario Schjetnan – (Untitled Lecture)
5:00 PM - GOL 3.120

People Talking About Architecture – 04.14.2006

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee:
Winy Maas - Research
7:00 PM - Englemann Hall Auditorium

Cornell University:
Martin Wattenberg - Revelatory Interfaces
6:30 PM - Kaufman Auditorium (Goldwin Smith Hall)

People Talking About Architecture – 04.13.2006

University of Pennsylvania:
Varoius Speakers -- Talk 20
6:00 PM -- Meyerson Hall, Upper Gallery
Winka Dubbeldam, Ferda Kolatan, Anuradha Mathur, Jenny Sabin, Geoff Manaugh and others will speak as they present 20 slides.

University of Virgina:
Peter Zumthor – (Untitled Lecture)
1:00 PM - Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
If you can make it, this is a semi-rare opportunity to hear Mr. Zumthor speak publicly on this side of the pond.

Parsons:
David Rockwell - Interface Lecture
6:15 PM - 25 East 13th Street
The founding Partner of the Rockwell Group will present his recent projects with Parsons students.

People Talking About Architecture – 04.12.2006

Princeton University:
Michael Maltzan - Breaking Points
6:00 PM - Betts Auditorium

Harvard University:
Nathalie de Vries - Recent Works
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium
The “DV” part of MVRDV will speak about her work in Rotterdam, and points beyond.

University of California, Berkley:
Aranda/Lasch -- Tooling Print
7:00 PM - 112 Wurster Hall

People Talking About Architecture – 04.11.2006

Columbia University:
Mark Cousins - Architecture and the Lost Object: Home and Melancholia
6:30 PM - Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
The director of History and Theory Studies and the Histories and Theories Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association Graduate School will speak on contemporary theoretical issues, from the perspective of his research in Psychoanalysis.

Parsons:
Pioneering Design Series - The Highline Design Team
6:30 PM -Tishman Auditorium - 66 West 12th street
The Highline Design Team - Robert Hammond (Friends of Highline), James Corner (Field Operations) and Ricardo Scofidio (Diller Scofidio+Renfro) discuss the progress being made on the preservation and re-use of the Highline, in New York. The Highline is an abandoned 1.5 mile elevated railway that runs along the West Side of Manhattan. Their goal is to convert the elevated rail structure to public open space. www.thehighline.org

Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Ying-Chun Hsieh - Sustainable Construction in Community
6:30PM - Room 10-250

Harvard University:
Maxine Griffith - (Untitled Lecture)
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

Woodbury Institute:
Marcello Spina - (Untitled Lecture)
6:30 PM - Design Center . 7500 Glenoaks Boulevard
The professor at SCI-Arc and founding principal of PATTERNS in Los Angeles will speak about recent work.

New York:
Eyal Nir - Zero-Dimensional Design
6:00 PM - Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place
This lecture will presents ParaCloud, a design tool based on parametric point-clouds as design drivers. The novel approach of unfolding design complexity and creating schematic design interfaces is explored through case studies of generative design and fabrication. Mr. Nir is an architect and technology specialist with more than 10 years of experience in developing CAD solutions for complex systems in the architecture, engineering and construction industries.

People Talking About Architecture – 04.10.2006

Southern Illinois University:
Will Bruder - Architectural Studies and Interior Design
7:00 PM - Parkinson 124, Brown Auditorium.
The “self-trained” architect will speak about some of his 450 commissions that “have celebrated the craft of building in ways not typical in contemporary architecture, striving to invent form specific to function and his client’s aspirations.”

Washington University:
Marcelo Ferraz -- (Untitled Lecture)
7:00 PM - Steinberg Auditorium
The Brazilian architect and visiting professor will speak about past projects.

Rice University:
Francoise Fromonot – The Cabbage Patch and the Stork
5:00 PM - Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall
The architect and Associate Professor at the Ecole d'Archietcture will deliver a lecture whose full title stretches, The Cabbage Patch and the Stork: Classifying Contemporary Urbanism

New York Institute of Technology:
Discussion - Should the Future Be Designed?
6:30 PM - 16 West 61st St., 11th floor
Michael Sorkin will moderate a discussion between Marshall Berman, M. Christine Boyer, David Harvey, Laura Kurgan, and Brendan Moran. The full title of the talk is Should the Future Be Designed? Alternative Approaches to Activism, Politics and Professional Practice in the Design Disciplines.

People Talking About Architecture – 04.07.2006

Harvard University:
Jean Nouvel – (Untitled Lecture)
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium
This will make four lectures in the last five days for Harvard. Wow.

University of Virgina:
Several Lectureors – Hearways
5:00 PM -Campbell Hall
The Dean of the UVa School of Architecture will be joined by Joel Sanders -- founding partner of Joel Sanders Architect; and Ben Rubin -- the founder of EAR Studio.

Yale University:
Frank Gehry and Paul Goldberger - A Conversation
6:30 PM – Hastings Hall (180 York Street)

University of Milwaukee:
Steven Ehrlich - "Multi-Cultural Modernism"
4:30 PM - Room 170 (School of Architecture and Urban Planning)

University of California, San Diego:
Julie Eizenberg – (Untitled Lecture)
12:00 PM - VAF Seminar Room
The founder of the Santa Monica-based firm, Koning Eizenberg is “ known for (her) imaginative, site-specific and people-oriented approach to the design of buildings and places of everyday living.”

Cornell University:
Patrik Schumacher - Title TBD
6:30 PM - Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium (Goldwin Smith Hall)

People Talking About Architecture – 04.06.2006

Parsons:
Tim McDonald - Physical Work
6:15 PM - 25 East 13th Street
Mr. McDonald will describe the recent work of his Philadelphia firm, including Rag Flats, an 11-unit residential development designed to bring a new form of housing to an old neighborhood.

Pratt:
Hernan Diaz Alonso – Grotesque Mutations
6:00 PM - Higgins Hall Auditorium

People Talking About Architecture – 04.05.2006

Princeton University:
David Adjaye - Making Public Space: Specificity, Customization, Imbrication
6:00 PM - Betts Auditorium
Calculations could be wrong on this, but with this lecture Mr. Adjaye will have lectured at a majority of the Ivy League schools in the bast 16 months. Perhaps he has worked into his lecture a reaction to the flack he got in the press this winter accusing him of speaking out against poorly design public space in Briton.

Harvard University:
Luis Mansilla – (Untitled Lecture)
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

SCI-Arc:
Manuel DeLanda - Deleuze and the Use of Genetic Algorithms in Architecture
7:00 PM – Main Space
The Mexico City based Philosopher and author of 1000 Years of Non-Linear History will lecture. The book is fascinating: hopefully someone who attends the lecture will be able to comment here if the lecture is half as enjoyable.

University of California, Berkley:
Jurgen Mayer - Re-public Print
7:00 PM - 112 Wurster Hall

Archeworks:
David Brown - Failure as an Option
6:00 PM - 625 N Kingsbury St
Mr. Brown is expected to speak about his investigation into ways in which the concerns of existing organizations overseeing various scales of metropolitan development can provide parameters for modes of urban design and planning that can negotiate an area’s transformation in time.

Washington DC:
Emerging Voices: deicoi/George Yu Archhitects
6:30 PM – National Building Museum (401 F Street NW)
Mark Goulthorpe, founding principal of dECOi in Paris and Cambridge, will present his firm's work ranging from pure design to architecture and urbanism. Then Los Angeles-based George Yu will discuss, among other projects, the creative workspaces of the Sony Design Centers in Los Angeles and Shanghai.

People Talking About Architecture – 04.04.2006

Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Steven Holl -"Steven Holl: Recent Work"
6:30PM - Room 10-250
Hopefully the namesake of Steven Holl Architects will describe the design of Pratt’s new addition. The building is on the currently featured Architect's homepage.

Harvard University:
Terrance Riley – (Untitled Lecture)
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

People Talking About Architecture – 04.03.2006

Yale University:
Werner Sobek - Archi-neering the Future
6:30 PM – Hastings Hall (180 York Street)

Princeton University:
Ryue Nishizawa - Recent Work
6:00 PM - Betts Auditorium
Principle of Sanaa Ltd., and Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa & Associates and Princeton's Jean Labatut Visiting Professor will deliver a close-to-home-turf lecture.

Harvard University:
Ricky Burdett – (Untitled Lecture)
6:00 PM - Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium

Washington University:
Bill Valentine – (Untitled Lecture)
7:00 PM - Steinberg Auditorium
The Chairman of, Design Principal at, and 43-year veteran of HOK, will advocate for sustainability and promote his definition of "good design" as a simple idea, elegantly executed and inspiring, with social significance and in harmony with the environment.

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Andrew MacNair - Not Architecture and Egg City
5:45 PM - Weston Lecture Hall 1

University of Illinois at Chicago:
Martin Fischer – (Untitled Lecture)
6:00 PM - 1100 A+A Building