SPRING 2012 LECTURE SERIES
All lectures begin at 5:30 PM in Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, unless otherwise noted. All lectures are free and open to the public.
David Salmela, FAIA
Principal, Salmela Architects
Lecture Title: "Element of Place"
Monday, February 6, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Max Abramovitz Endowed lecture
Brad Lynch
Principal, Brininstool + Lynch
Lecture Title: "Simple, Stupid"
Monday, March 12, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Sponsored by the School of Architecture Annual Fund
Florian Idenburg
Principal, Solid Objectives
Lecture Title: "To Be Determined" (actual title)
Monday, March 26, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Simpson & Jacquin sponsored lecture
Elizabeth Meyer
Professor of Landscape Architecture
University of Virginia
Lecture Title: "Musings on a Manifesto: Beyond "Sustaining Beauty"
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
6:00 P.M. - I Hotel
Landscape Architecture - Hideo Sasaki Lecture Series
Kathryn Moore
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
Lecture Title: "Overlooking the Visual: Implications of Research, Planning and Design"
Thursday, March 29, 2012
5:00 P.M. - I Hotel
Landscape Architecture - Hideo Sasaki Lecture Series
Don Mitchell
Distinguished Professor of Geography
Syracuse University Maxwell School
Lecture Title: "From Gotland to Youngstown: Link Between Landscape and Justice"
Friday, March 30, 2012
5:00 P.M. - I Hotel
Landscape Architecture - Hideo Sasaki Lecture Series
David J. Brown
Executive Vice President & Chief Preservation Officer
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Lecture Title: "Preservation for the 21st Century"
Monday, April 2, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Alan K. & Leonarda F. Laing Memorial Lecture (Preservation)
Rahul Mehrotra
Professor & Chair
Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University
Lecture Title: "Heritage, Community, and Landscape Conservation in India"
Friday, April 6, 2012
7:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
India Studies Distinguished Lecture Series - co-sponsored by Center for Global Studies (CGS), Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES), School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Lorado Taft.
Christopher Leong, Assoc. AIA
Partner, Leong Leong Architecture, New York
Lecture Title: "Get Fuzzy"
Monday, April 9, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Sponsored by PSA-Dewberry
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Principal, Atelier Bow Wow, Tokyo
Lecture Title: "Architectural Behaviorology"
Monday, April 16, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Max Abramovitz Endowed lecture
Marvin Trachtenberg
Professor, New York University Institute of Fine Arts
Lecture Title: "Building in Time: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Era"
Monday, April 23, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Alan K. & Leonarda F. Laing Memorial Lecture (History)
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of "Spring" conference
Thursday, April 26 - Friday, April 27
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Co-sponsored by LAS, the
Center for Advanced Study, the School of Architecture, the Program in
Jewish Culture & Society, School of Art & Design, CSAMES, the Department
of Sociology and the Transnational Sociology Area, the Sustainability
Studies Initiative in the Humanities, and The Center for Global Studies
with the aid of a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.
Craig Schwitter, PE, BSCE, MSCE
Managing Principal for North America, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers PC
Lecture Title: "On Force, Shape and Performance: Challenges for Tomorrow's Structural Engineer"
Monday, April 30, 2012
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Michael J. Theiss Memorial Lecture
Ken Smith
Lecture Title: "A Few Recent Projects"
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
5:30 P.M. - I-Hotel
Landscape Architecture Lecture Series - Sasaki Day Lecture
Plym Auditorium 