Casey Alexander's Lecture: "Architecture by Non-Architects in Coastal Deserts"
Branner & Stump Fellows Lecture
Wednesday, February 6
Location: 112 Wurster Hall
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Please join us for our first lecture of the year — Recent Branner & Stump Fellowship recipients will be presenting their research to the CED community!
2018 BRANNER FELLOWS: Casey Alexander, Meg Anderson, Logman Arja, Jordan Cayanan, Eiji Jimbo, Amy Louie, Matthew Palmquist
2018 BRANNER & STUMP FELLOWS: Jordan Miodownik, Cooper Rogers
Sponsored by the John K. Branner and Harold Stump Endowments
IMAGE: LA KRETZ INNOVATION CAMPUS | PHOTO BY BENNY CHAN/FOTOWORKS
Alice Kimm | John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
Wednesday, February 13
Location: 112 Wurster Hall
Time: 7:30-9 pm
With the belief that architecture has the power to transform people’s lives, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) creates environments that encourage interaction, sustain the environment, and effect positive change. Since 1996, the firm’s work has spanned schools, university centers, commercial ventures, housing, and public space installations, and each project is approached as an opportunity to artfully and sustainably enhance its cultural context.
Co-sponsored by the AIA East Bay
IMAGE: THE PLAYING FIELD, A 450-SEAT THEATRE AT THE TOWN SQUARE IN THE CENTRE OF SOUTHAMPTON
JOE HALLIGAN | ASSEMBLE
Wednesday, February 20
Location: 112 Wurster Hall
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
Please join us for a talk with Joe Halligan, co-founder of Assemble. As one of the 18 members that founded the architecture, art and design collective in 2010, Joe Halligan has overseen projects including The Brutalist Playground with Simon Terril at the Royal Institute of British Architecture, a travelling exhibition for Italian and Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi and a new Allegory of Good and Bad Governance for the city of Vancouver with Daniel Clarke.
Assemble is a multi-disciplinary collective working across architecture, design and art that champions an interdependent and collaborative working practice seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator in the on-going realization of the work. Founded in 2010 to undertake a single self-built project, Assemble has since delivered a diverse and award-winning body of work, whilst retaining a democratic and co-operative working method that enables built, social and research-based work at a variety of scales, both making things and making things happen. Their projects range from architectural installations to arts venues and public spaces, among many others.
Presented by Room 1000
IMAGE: SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE AT FORT MASON | PHOTO BY BRUCE DAMONTE
WILLIAM LEDDY & MARSHA MAYTUM
Wednesday, March 20
Location: 112 Wurster Hall
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
DESIGNING FOR CHANGE
Architecture has an important role to play as a catalyst for positive change in our society – focusing the transformative power of design on bigger challenges beyond the property lines of our buildings. These include modeling a low-carbon future, creating healthy communities, advancing equity for disadvantaged populations, celebrating diversity, promoting independence for people with disabilities, connecting to nature and fostering reverence for history, art and culture. Using examples from their diverse portfolio, William Leddy and Marsha Maytum will illustrate how architecture can help lead the way toward a just, healthy and regenerative future for all.
Founding Principals of LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects in San Francisco, William Leddy, FAIA, and Marsha Maytum, FAIA believe that architecture has an important role to play in leading our communities toward a just, carbon-neutral future. For over 35 years Leddy, Maytum, and partner Richard Stacy, have been national leaders in the design of regenerative architecture that integrates environmental sustainability and design excellence. The firm has focused on community, education and affordable/supportive housing projects for a variety of mission-driven organizations. Their diverse portfolio includes both new buildings and the adaptive reuse of existing structures that address climate change, community connection and social justice. LMSA was the 2017 recipient of the National AIA Firm Award, and it is one of only two firms in the nation to have received ten or more AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Project awards. The firm has received over 150 regional, national and international design awards and has been recognized by numerous organizations including the American Institute of Architects, the French Institute of Architects, the Norwegian Association of Architects, the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Green Building Council and the National Building Museum. Leddy was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2003 and has served on the National AIA Committee on the Environment Advisory Group (as chair in 2013) and currently, the AIA California Council Committee on the Environment. Maytum was elected to the American College of Fellows in 2001 and is the 2019 Chair of the National AIA Committee on the Environment Advisory Group. Leddy and Maytum have lectured widely and served as visiting professors at the California College of the Arts, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the University of Oregon as Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professors and currently are the Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professors at University of California Berkeley.
Sponsored by the Howard A. Friedman Endowment
IMAGE: PARTY WALL | MOMA PS1 PAVILION, 2013
CAROLINE O’DONNELL
Wednesday, April 10
Location: 112 Wurster Hall
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
SHAPE SHIFTING
In the lecture “Shape-shifting” O'Donnell will discuss the work from her practice, CODA, which engages with changes of state, material misuse and perceptual trickery. From the MoMA PS1 Pavilion Party Wall to more recent work which develops material efficiency and reuse, the lecture will explore a range of interpretations of 'dynamic' architecture.
Caroline O'Donnell is the Edgar A. Tafel Associate Professor and director of the M.Arch. program at Cornell University, where she teaches studios and seminars on themes of environmentally responsive architecture and material reuse. She is the principal of the design practice CODA, and the winner of MoMA/PS1's Young Architects' Program in 2013 with the project Party Wall. Other recent projects include Urchin, a pavilion for the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial in 2016; and Confluence, a bridge and boardwalk for Peterborough, New Hampshire. O'Donnell is the editor of the Cornell Journal of Architecture and former founding editor of Pidgin magazine. Her first book, Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships between Architecture and Site, was published in April 2015.
Sponsored by the Joan Draper Architectural Research Fund