Spring 2011

Thursday, 6 January 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Vincent Lo
Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellow
Lecture: “"Superblock / Supertall Developments in China and Hong Kong"

Monday, 10 January 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Kristina Hill
Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Lecture
Lecture: “Beauty or the Beast: Design and Infrastructure”

Thursday, 13 January 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Makram el Kadi
Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor
Lecture: “Potentially Dangerous Space”

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Hanif Kara
Gordon H. Smith Lecture
“Within Architecture: Design Engineering”

Friday, 21 January 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Nasser Rabat
Brendan Gill Lecture
Lecture: “When Religion Becomes the Embodiment of Politics”
(Keynote address to the symposium “Middle Ground / Middle East: Religious Sites in Urban Context”

Thursday, 27 January 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Joel Kotkin
Brendan Gill Lecture
Lecture: “The American Landscape in 2050”

Thursday, 10 February 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Thomas de Monchaux
Myriam Bellazoug Memorial Lecture
Lecture: “Seven Architectural Embarrassments”

Thursday, 17 February 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Lecture: “Architecture as Environment”
(Presented as a part of the symposium, “Thinking Big: Diagrams, Mediscapes and Megastructures”)
 
Friday, 18 February 2011, 6:30PM, Hastings Hall (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
“A Conversation”, Paul Goldberger and Kevin Roche
(Presented as a part of the symposium, “Thinking Big: Diagrams, Mediscapes and Megastructures”)

Monday, 21 March 2011, (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Film Screening: “Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio”

Thursday, 24 March 2011, 6:30PM, (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Thomas Y. Levin
David W. Roth and Robert H. Symonds Memorial Lecture
Lecture: “Topographies of Elusion”
(Presented as keynote address to the symposium “Fugitive Geographies’)

Monday, 28 March 2011, 6:30PM, (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Peter Arnell
Eero Saarinen Lecture
Lecture: “Creating Desire and Appeal in the Age of Branding”

Thursday, 7 April 2011, 6:30PM, (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
Peter Eisenman
Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice
Lecture: “Wither Architecture: Architecture vs. Design”

Thursday, 14 April 2011, 6:30PM, (180 York Street, Paul Rudolph Hall, Basement Level)
John Patkau
Lord Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor in Architecture
Lecture: “Buildings/Projects/Competitions: 2009 -2011”