CANCELLED! BERKELEY ARCHITECTURE EVENT: PUBLISHING ARCHITECTURE COLLOQUIUM

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED!

Publishing plays multiple roles in contemporary architecture. It can consolidate new movements, promote public awareness of design culture, advance research and scholarship, and support alternative modes of practice. These synergies are explored by a panel of experts assembled for 'Publishing Architecture,' a public discussion organized in conjunction with Room One Thousand, the Department of Architecture's student journal. The panel participants are:

• Robert Gonzalez, founding editor of AULA: Architecture & Urbanism in las Americas
• Nancy Levenson, editor and executive director of Places Journal
• Amanda Reeser-Lawrence, editor of PRAXIS: Journal for Writing + Building
• Avery Trufelman, producer of the podcast 99% Invisible

The 2020 issue of Room One Thousand will be unveiled at the event reception following the panel discussion.

ABOUT ROBERT GONZALEZ

Robert Alexander González, PhD, AIA, is the founding Editor of AULA: Architecture & Urbanism in Las Americas, a journal he founded in 1998 while doing doctoral work at UC Berkeley. The journal developed for over 20 years, at time in conjunction with conferences held at several universities. In the late 90s, he served as Places Assistant Editor to Donlyn Lyndon, and with Samina Quraeshi, he was Guest Editor of the first EDRA/Places Awards issue. He has also served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education.

Robert is an architectural historian, architect and a professor of architecture. He is Director of the Texas Tech El Paso Program, located on the US-Mexico border in one of the largest bi-national metropolitan areas in the world. He recently lectured at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, on an architectural competition he is organizing for a memorial that commemorates victims of racism and US aggression on the US-Mexico border. Robert is the author of Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere. He has written about architectural competitions, the borderlands, Latin American/Latinx architecture, Pan-Americanism, and world’s fairs. His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the CCA Montreal, and the Graham Foundation. 

ABOUT NANCY LEVENSON

Nancy Levinson is the Editor/Executive director of Places Journal. Over the past decade she has led the journal’s transition from print to digital, advanced the editorial mission of public scholarship, and, in collaboration with Princeton University Press, overseen the launch of Places Books. Previously she was founding director of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab at Arizona State University and co-founding editor of Harvard Design Magazine at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Nancy has been a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and contributed to numerous periodicals, including Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture Magazine, the Journal of Planning Literature, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Perspecta. She is an adjunct associate professor in the faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Monash University, and serves on the boards of the Architecture Lobby and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 

ABOUT AMANDA REESER-LAWRENCE

Amanda Reeser Lawrence is a tenured associate professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University where she serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator.

Lawrence is founding coeditor of the award-winning architectural journal Praxis: A Journal of Writing + Building. Her published books include: James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist (Yale University Press, 2013); Terms of Appropriation, (Routledge 2017), co-edited with Ana Miljacki; and Agenda: The Official Catalogue of the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice, co-edited with Ana Miljacki, Eva Franch I Gilabert, Ashley Schafer.  

She has published articles in Log, Perspecta, Future Anterior, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architectural Education, CASE, Architectural Theory Review, and ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Lawrence received her PhD in architectural history and theory from Harvard University, her Master of Architecture from Columbia University and her BA Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University.

ABOUT AVERY TRUFELMAN

Avery Trufelman is a longtime staff producer at the design podcast 99% Invisible, where she has covered everything from garbage trucks in Taipei to Swimming pools in Helsinki. She is also the host of Articles of Interest, a podcast about fashion, and Nice Try! a podcast about failed utopian experiments throughout time. 

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE SPRING 2020 BERKELEY ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES. OPEN TO ALL!