George H. Miller Lecture - KSU CAED

George H. Miller, Architect Lecture

Principal and Managing Partner

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Thursday, March 15, 2012

7pm

Kiva Auditorium

Kent State University

Kent Student Center

1065 Risman Drive, Kent, Ohio

George H. Miller is a past president of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Architectural league of New York, Municipal Arts Society, Society of Architectural Historians and is director of the New York Building Congress.

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners are known for such projects as the Grand Louvre (Paris), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland), Palazzo Lombardia (Milan) and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington), just to name a few.

The lecture is free and open to the public.  Space is limited.  To ensure a seat, please call 330.672.2760 or email collegeofthearts@kent.edu.  Nonreserved seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Presented by:

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series and School of Architecture and Environmental Design.

Susannah Drake Lecture - spring lecture series coming to kent campus

spring lecture series coming to kent campus

Thursday, March 1 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall Auditorium

Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA

Principal, dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture

We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural event of the 2012 Spring Lecture Series at the College of Architecture & Environmental Design, featuring architect Susannah Drake. Ms Drake's firm, dlandstudio, is currently planning for a massive project in Brooklyn to bridge communities that have been separated since the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The new park would connect existing parks on either side of the BQE and introduce vegetation, creating a much-needed green space.

"Rising Currents: a New Urban Ground" is a partnership by dlandstudio and Architecture Research Office (ARO), and is currently an exhibition at MoMA. The plan takes into account the projections of rising sea levels over the course of the next century, and creates a striking re-imagining of the Manhattan waterfront, designed to protect land from erosion. Other smart water-management design includes a street that is made of porous material that absorbs rainwater, preventing runoff.

In addition to her work at dlandstudio, Ms Drake also holds the position of Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union, and is Adjunct Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a graduate of Harvard University with an M. Architecture and M. Landscape Architecture.