School of Architecture Lectures Series

Wowo Ding: "Design and Dialogue"

Wowo Ding — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:45:28 PST

Wowo Ding is the Dean of the School of Architecture at Nanjing University, China. She received the Outstanding Young Teacher's Prize by Southeast University and Nanjing University, first prize for her design project 'Eastern and Western Market in Confucius Temple,' and an outstanding designation for her Jiangsu Provincial urban and rural planning design work.

Scott Erdy: "Causality"

Scott Erdy — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:40:54 PST

Scott Erdy G'90 is a founding partner and lead designer at Erdy McHenry Architecture, Philadelphia. He was a visiting critic at Syracuse Architecture in spring 2012. While his work has received numerous awards and been nationally recognized, Erdy is respected by clients and colleagues alike--particularly for his conversational approach to the design process and use of computer modeling in the early conceptual stages.

Symposium: Memoryscapes and Imageworlds - Archive, Architecture and Media after Walter Benjamin [Part Two]

Pier Vittorio Aureli — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:40:52 PST

A conference on the continuing influence of Walter Benjamin's writings. Discussion on the contemporary status of memory archives and the increasing need to imagine and construct new archival frameworks, networks and interfaces in the face of the proliferation of information and globalism. ("Images? Precisely!" panel; 3:45 Keynote: Pier Vittorio Aureli)

Symposium: Memoryscapes and Imageworlds - Archive, Architecture and Media after Walter Benjamin [Part One]

Pier Vittorio Aureli — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:30:46 PST

Stephan Jaklitsch: "Conditional"

Stephan Jaklitsch — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:30:44 PST

Syracuse Architecture visiting critic Stephan Jaklitsch is founding principal of Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA). J/GA is an award-winning NYC-based design practice that focuses on urban scale projects, buildings, interiors, and objects. Award-winning projects include Marc Jacobs Tokyo Flagship Building (2010); a bike rack for the NYC DOT that was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (2008); and the Marc Jacobs International Showroom (2012).

Erik Olsen: "High Comfort, Low Impact: Climate-Responsive Projects and Processes"

Erik Olsen — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:30:43 PST

Erik Olsen is a climate engineer known for his passionate focus on high-comfort, low-impact environments. As Director of Transsolar Climate Engineering's NY office he works collaboratively with clients, architects, and other engineers worldwide to develop and validate low-energy, architecturally integrated indoor climate and energy concepts.

Tracy Metz Lecture: "Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch"

Tracy Metz — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:30:42 PST

Tracy Metz is a journalist and author of art, architecture, urban planning and the landscape. In "Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch" (NAi Publishers) Metz describes the metamorphosis the landscape of the Netherlands is currently undergoing and how the Dutch are searching for new ways of living with the water. Co-sponsored by School of Visual and Performing Arts Transmedia Department.

Nicholas de Monchaux: "Local Code / Real Estates"

Nicholas de Monchaux — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:25:22 PST

Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist whose work explores the intersections between nature, technology, and the city. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural history of the Apollo 11 spacesuit. He is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UC Berkeley. The work of his design studio has been exhibited widely and is currently being featured in the US Pavillion of the 13th Venice Biennale.

Brian Zhang Li: "On Continuum"

Brian Zhang Little — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:25:21 PST

Brian Zhang Li is Syracuse Architecture Professor of Practice this semester. He is also a Professor of Architecture/Assistant Dean from the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China. He leads the design practice, TeamMinus, in Beijing. He is a board member of the Architectural Society of China. His research focuses on oriental philosophy and its reinterpretation in contemporary urban development.

Tsao and McKown: "Serving Conscience"

Calvin Tsao et al. — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:25:20 PST

Visiting critics Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown are co-partners of Tsao and McKown Architects, NYC. Calvin Tsao has emerged as one of the most original voices in contemporary architecture, drawing from his own experience of diverse cultures and a lively engagement with a variety of art forms. Zack McKown has been widely recognized for his innovations in the fields of urban design and architecture, interiors, furniture and product design.

Alan Berger: "Exterial Landscapes and Systemic Design"

Alan Berger — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:25:19 PST

Alan Berger is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at MIT and founding director of research practice P-REX. His work emphasizes the link between our consumption of natural resources and the waste and destruction of landscape -- he coined the term "systemic design" to describe the reintegration of disvalued landscapes into our urbanized territories and regional ecologies. Co-sponsored by SUNY ESF.

D. Grahame Shane: "Architecture and Urban Design Since 1945: a Global Perspective"

D. Grahame Shane — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:25:18 PST

D. Grahame Shane teaches Graduate Urban Design at Columbia University and undergraduate students at The Cooper Union in New York. He has lectured widely and his work has been published in architectural journals worldwide. Together with Brian McGrath he edited Volume 8: Contemporary Urban Theory in The Handbook of Architectural Theory (Sage 2011). His new book, Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective, was published in April 2011.