Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Roadtrip (13)! - University of Waterloo (Spring 2010)


University of Waterloo's School of Architecture has posted their Spring 2010 Lecture Series. Remember to bring the proper papers if making the journey from the States (or be willing to find a place to cross at the hundreds of miles of unprotected border that separate our two countries. What? I admit I find the necessity of a passport or special card to travel from Canada to the USA sort of silly. I mean, first off Canada seems pretty dang neighborly and almost an extension (albeit a polite one) of the USA. Sort of like the 51st state. Or we in the States are more like the rude 11th province of Canada, however you want to look at it. Secondly, the important thing is that there are quite a few really good architecture and design schools right across the border that deserve some exploration (without ridiculous hassle). They may be a country away but that isn't logistically far at all (especially from right here in Cleveland).

Monday, January 18, 2010

Roadtrip (12)! - Univ. of Michigan (Spring 2010)

The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture has posted their Spring 2010 Lecture/Symposium Series and has quite a few decent events and speakers coming up, enough to warrant yet another trip to Ann Arbor. I haven't found the lecture series poster yet (which for some reason is a big part of the lecture series to me, perhaps I just like marketing, etc.) but as soon as I do find it I will post it for your very own enjoyment.

Lecture Series

Lectures are at 6:30 PM in the A+A Lecture Hall, unless otherwise noted, Room 2104 at the Art and Architecture Building. Events are free and open to the public.

Taubman College Lectures

January 12th
Gerald Frug
Harvard Law School Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
"Designing Government"
January 21st
7:00 PM
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Asylum-Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals: Christopher Payne, photographer
Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for the History of Medicine, the Victor Vaughan Society, the Institute for the Humanities, and the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops
January 22nd
Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
WORK Architecture Company principals
Wallenberg Studio Lecture Series: I
January 26th
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi
Founding partners Weiss/Manfredi
"Sequence/Section"
Wallenberg Studio Lecture Series: II
February 4th
Michigan Theater
5:10 PM
Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingles Group (BIG)
"Yes Is More"
Part of the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series
February 12th
Mark Dorrian
University of Edinburgh Reader in Architecture, Director of the Master of Architecture Programme
"Clouds of Architecture"
February 19th
Keller Easterling
Yale University School of Architecture Associate Professor of Architecture
Wallenberg Studio Lecture Series: III
"Some True Stories"
February 23rd
Curtis Moody
Moody/Nolan Ltd., Inc., President and CEO
"Challenges of an Architectural Firm"
Co-sponsored by UM National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS)
March 9th
Jefferson Han
Perceptive Pixel, Founder and Chief Scientist
March 11th
Michigan Theater
5:10 PM
Dayna Baumeister
Biomimicry Institute Co-Founder
"Biomimicry"
Part of the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series

A+A Building
6:30 PM
Sonit Bafna
Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
March 16th
John Ochsendorf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Structural Engineer
"Form & Forces"
April 1st
Zeynep Çelik Alexander
Lecturer, Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, NY
April 16th
Alejandro Aravena
Elemental S.A. Executive Director
The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture

Symposiums

January 19th
7:00 PM
Urban and Regional Planning Martin Luther King Day Symposium
"Immigration: A Catalyst for Change in American Cities"
Presenters include: Ismael Ahmed, Michigan Department of Human Services Director; Francisco Lara-Valencia, Arizona State University Assistant Professor and Southwest Borderland Scholar; Hussein Samatar, African Development Center of Minnesota Executive Director
January 30th
1:00 – 4:00 PM
University of Michigan Museum of Art
"Contemporary Strategies in Documentary Photography" Symposium, Part 1, with Alec Sloth
Co-sponsored with U-M Museum of Art, Office of the Vice President for Research, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Art & Design, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute, Rackham, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, History, English, American Culture
February 6th
1:00 – 5:30 PM
University of Michigan Museum of Art
"Contemporary Strategies in Documentary Photography" Symposium, Part 2, with Allan Sekula and Sally Stein
Co-sponsored with U-M Museum of Art, Office of the Vice President for Research, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Art & Design, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute, Rackham, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, History, English, American Culture
March 19th & 20th
Rackham Auditorium
Future of Urbanism Conference

Event Supporters

Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund, John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture Fund, Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Fund, Frances and Gilbert P. Schafer Visiting Professionals Fund, J. Robert Swanson Fund, Taubman College Enrichment Fund, Taubman College Lecture Fund