Thursday, March 1 @ 7 pm Cartwright Hall
Susannah Drake, AIA, ASLA
Principal, dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture
Ms. Drake's firm, dlandstudio, is currently planning 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 plant life to create a new green space.
"Rising Currents: A New Urban Ground" is a partnership by dlandstudio and Architecture Research Office (ARO), in 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 with designs to protect the 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 is Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union, and Adjunct Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a graduate of Harvard University with an M. Architecture & M. Landscape Architecture.
Press
Monday, March 5 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall
Alberto Perez-Gomez
Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, McGill University
Dr. Alberto Perez-Gomez has written extensively, and his work has been published in journals, pre-publication reports, exhibitions and reviews. His recent research includes an annotated bibliography on theatrical space 17th - 20th century; "New paradigms for architectural education: historical sources during the Enlightenment and the early 19th century;" and work on a book entitledArchitecture and Love, about the confluence of ethics and poetics in architectural praxis.
Books
Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
Polyphilo or the Dark Forest Revisited: an Erotic Epiphany of Architecture
Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
Dr. Perez-Gomez has received numerous research awards and grants; most recently he won the Research/Creation Grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to develop projects generated from Polyphilo in order to test digital media on problems of architecural representation.
Dr. Perez-Gomez is a native of Mexico City, Mexico. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Art (Ph.D.), History and Theory of Architecture from the University of Essex in Colchester England. He is fluent in English and Spanish, and has knowledge in 3 other languages. He resides in Canada.
Thursday, March 15 @ 7 pm in KIVA
The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series
George H. Miller, FAIA
Principal & Managing Partner; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
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, Palazo Lombardia (Milan) and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington).
Thursday, March 29 @ 7 pm in KIVA
Panel discussion: Fantastic Futures in Design Education
Wednesday, April 11 @ 7 pm in Cartwright Hall Auditorium
Film screening: Urbanized
Gary Hustwit, acclaimed film maker
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