Architecture Lecture | Clark Thenhaus: Darlings & Other Building Parts
In this presentation, architect Clark Thenhaus discusses his practice, Endemic Architecture, which seeks to create architecture that we call “almost familiar”; enrich experiences by eliciting curiosity and delight; celebrate local conditions while maintaining a commitment to the social and cultural dimensions of architecture; and maintain a commitment to expanding architecture’s received histories, theories, representations, voices, techniques, and stories.
About the speaker
Clark Thenhaus, founding principal of Endemic Architecture in Alameda, California, and an associate professor at California College of the Arts (CCA), is this fall’s Esherick Endowed Professor. He earned his MArch from the University of Pennsylvania and has received numerous awards, including Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards (2017, 2020, 2021) and the Architectural League Prize (2015). His work has been exhibited at Harvard GSD, Yale School of Architecture, Jai & Jai Gallery, and the University of Calgary, among other venues, and has been widely published. His book Unresolved Legibility in Residential Types (2019) proposes new interpretations of American residential architecture by investigating and graphically illustrating the forms, spaces, and histories of ten residential types through careful analyses that link social, cultural, and political histories with architectural expressions.
Free and open to the public.
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