Department of Architecture lectures: Fall lineup launches with the inaugural Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lecture
The fall 2026 series spotlights international visiting faculty and features Yung Ho Chang (MArch 1984) as the first speaker in the new Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lecture series.
The Department of Architecture fall lecture series kicks off on September 9 with the inaugural Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lecture featuring Yung Ho Chang (MArch 1984), FAIA. This new series was established through a generous gift from Professor Emeritus of Architecture Stanley Saitowitz (MArch 1977). “The goal of the series is to recognize and celebrate the contributions that graduates of CED’s Department of Architecture have made to the practice of architecture nationally and internationally,” says Saitowitz.
In his lecture, “How a House in the Sky Landed on Earth?,” Chang presents early work and built projects by his firm Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) to support the argument that paper architecture and social practice are not binary opposites. Chang, who has practiced in China since 1992, was the founding head of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University (1999–2005) and head of MIT’s Department of Architecture from 2005 to 2010.
On September 16, San Francisco–based architect Anne Fougeron presents work highlighted in her latest monograph, Framing Light. She will focus on the last 15 years of her firm’s practice, exploring key projects, design methodologies, and the impact of light and spatial dignity in civic and residential architecture. Fougeron founded Fougeron Architects in 1985; the American Institute of Architects California honored her with its Distinguished Practice Award in 2019 and its Maybeck Award, the association’s highest honor for an individual architect, in 2022.
On September 30, Michael Maltzan, who served as the inaugural JW&LV Visiting Professor of Practice at the College of Environmental Design in 2025, presents “Scales of the City.” Drawing from his work across infrastructure, housing, and cultural institutions in Los Angeles, Maltzan positions the city as both a physical and conceptual framework shaped by connection and fragmentation and explores how architecture can operate across multiple scales to address social polarization and reestablish civic cohesion. Founder and design principal of internationally recognized Los Angeles–based practice Michael Maltzan Architecture, Maltzan is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and recipient of the AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal.
Esherick Endowed Professors Zoë Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak present recent work of their firm, OPA, and discuss their design philosophy on October 7. Committed to forward-thinking built work driven by ideas and the innovative use of developing technologies, the firm specializes in crafting spatial experiences at multiple scales including installations, interiors, buildings, and urban proposals.
On October 28, UPM Professors of Practice Laura Sánchez Carrasco and Íñigo Cobeta, both professors at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), present “What Space Builds.” A recent project in a high school prompted them to ask, “Can the re-creation of inherited forms that evoke civic behavior hand some civic sense back to us?” In this lecture, they propose that question as a working principle: We build space, and space, in turn, can build us back.
Inaugural Creedon Fellow Julie Riley presents “Surface Conditions” on November 4. She discusses her research on the development and management of American municipal architecture from 1950 to 1970, as well as her ongoing collaboration with the Environmental Design Archives to re-stage archival works. Riley’s work examines historical research, material processes, and design production through close engagement with archival documents, construction techniques, and fabrication methods.
Friedman Visiting Professor Casper Mork-Ulnes explores how materials and building practices transform universal human needs into culturally specific architecture in his lecture on November 18. He argues for an architecture rooted in place, where place is not a constraint, but a source of architecture, meaning, and belonging. He is principal of Mork-Ulnes Architects, with offices in San Francisco and Oslo, and was awarded the Emerging Voices award by The Architectural League of New York in 2020.
Department of Architecture Fall 2026 Lecture Series
All lectures take place on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in 112 Bauer Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus and are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, September 9
Yung-Ho Chang (MArch 1984), Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ), Beijing
“How a House in the Sky Landed on Earth?
Inaugural Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lecture
Wednesday, September 16
Anne Fougeron, Fougeron Architects, San Francisco
“Framing Light”
Wednesday, September 30
Michael Maltzan, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles
“Scales of the City”
Wednesday October 7
Zoë Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak, OPA, San Francisco
Esherick Endowed Professors
“Openings”
Wednesday, October 28
Laura Sánchez Carrasco and Íñigo Cobeta, ETSAM, Madrid
UPM Professors of Practice
“What Space Builds”
Wednesday, November 4
Julie Riley
Creedon Fellow
“Surface Conditions”
Wednesday, November 18
Casper Mork-Ulnes, Mork-Ulnes Architects, San Francisco and Oslo
Friedman Visiting Professor
“The Craft of Place”
Bauer Wurster Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. If you require accommodations to fully participate in these events, please contact arch-events@berkeley.edu at least 10 days in advance.