Paul Laseau
Artist & Architect
Professor Emeritus - Ball State University
Lecture Title: Aegean Light: Watercolors and Sketches from the Greek Islands
Monday, March 14, 2011
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Co-sponsored with Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Krannert Art Museum, Modern Greek Studies, and the FAA Lorado Taft Fund
Paul Laseau is a Professor Emeritus of Architecture
at Ball State University with an outstanding career in teaching and
research with an emphasis in design communications including traditional
and digital media. His work was recognized by the awarding of the
prestigious Lilly Faculty Fellowship for the Study of Computer
Applications in Architecture. He is one of a handful of nationally
recognized authors in the field of design communications with seven
published books that are course texts for students of architecture,
landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design in the
Americas, Europe, and the Far East. One or more of his books have been
republished in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Malaysian, Indonesian and
Spanish languages.
Professor Laseau is Co-Founder and past President of
the Design Communication Association, an international alliance of
design practitioners and educators dedicated to promoting teaching and
research of communication in all media. He has maintained a continuing
role in the Association as co-editor of its newsletter and member of the
editorial board of Representation, the journal of the Design
Communication Association. He has lectured and conducted workshops on
communication in the United States, Europe, and Asia on a broad range of
design communication subjects including Fundamentals of Communication,
Visual Communication, Freehand Drawing, Visual Notation in Support of
Ideation and Invention, and the Role of Digital Media in Design
Communication.
He received the AIA Outstanding Architectural
Education Award as co-creator and director of UniverCity programs,
campus-wide “chatauquas” at Ball State University in 1988, 1990, and
1992.
Paul Laseau received his license for architectural
practice in New York State in 1965. He has worked in New York City and
Paris for distinguished firms including Marcel Breuer and Associates.
And he was also co-founder of Building Science, a Buffalo based
architectural research firm.
Paul Laseau is author
of:
Graphic Thinking for
Architects and Designers (3rd Ed.).
John Wiley Publishers,
New York
Graphic Problem Solving
for Architects and Designers.
Van
Nostrand Reinhold Publishers, New York
Inkline Drawing.
Van Nostrand
Reinhold Publishers, New York
Architectural Drawing:
Options for design.
McGraw-Hill
publishers, New York
Handbook of
Architectural Representation.
McGraw-Hill publishers,
New York
Visual Notes
(with Norman Crowe). John Wiley Publishers, New York
Freehand Sketching: an introduction.
Frank Lloyd Wright:
between principle and form (with James Tice)
John Wiley Publishers,
New York
Plym
Auditorium