Martin Felsen, AIA
UrbanLab
Lecture Title: Growing Water
Monday, January 31, 2011
Rescheduled for (Wed) April 6, 2011
CANCELLED
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Co-sponsors: Dept of Landscape Architecture & the School of Architecture
Martin Felsen is a co-founder of UrbanLab, a collaborative office based in Chicago practicing architecture and urbanism. UrbanLab develops long-range design and planning strategies to energize public and private urban communities; and UrbanLab is engaged in projects at various scales, ranging from city masterplans to houses and educational installations. UrbanLab is also a research laboratory actively engaged in examining American cities and megalopolises.
Felsen is Principal Investigator for research projects funded by organizations such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Institute of Architect’s College of Fellows Latrobe Prize (2009).
UrbanLab’s practice is complimented by academic involvement: Felsen is an Associate Studio Professor in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and in 2008 he was appointed the Director of Archeworks, a non-profit design-based think tank in Chicago researching contemporary urban design issues related to architecture, infrastructure, culture and economies throughout the Great Lakes.
http://www.urbanlab.com/index.html
Martin
Felsen, AIA