Spring 2019 Public Programs

Discursive Practices

Published January 10, 2019 This content is archived.

DISCURSIVE PRACTICES presents the work of architects, urban planners, preservationists and historians whose approach to design bridges multiple territories of knowledge to create new work.

Their provocations operate on discourses that simultaneously have long historical traditions and are actively evolving in the present. By acknowledging and engaging with the cultural and institutional basis of inherited knowledge systems, these speakers challenge reductive modes of analysis and reveal openings for expanding the social reach and relevance of contemporary design.

AIA and AICP continuing education credits are available.

In Practice: Alumni Symposium
2/6/19
February 6, 2019
The event brings together alumni from architecture, urban planning and real estate development, to discuss different forms of practice that they are engaging in after graduating from UB.
Cages/Logging: An Exhibition
2/9/19
Feb 9 - Mar 31, 2019
Presenting the work of a graduate studio and seminar in architecture, Cages / Logging composes two parallel narratives that explore the processes by which nature becomes a material space charged with intellectual emotion and tactility.
Zhu Pei
2/13/19
February 13, 2019
As the UB Confucius Institute Distinguished Architecture Lecture, Zhu Pei will trace the roots of his work and that inspiration through examinations of current design proposals.
Table Talks
2/20/19
February 20, 2019
This event will discuss how the Northland Beltline Redevelopment Project aims to transform a community affected by the decline of a once thriving manufacturing facility on the east side of Buffalo.
Deafness and Architecture Symposium
2/22/19
February 22, 2019
Explore the intersection of architecture and deafness including the architecture of schools for the deaf, “Deaf Space”, and the impact of evolving technology and cultural attitudes toward deafness.
Mustafa Faruki
2/27/19
February 27, 2019
Mustafa Faruki will discuss student work developed under his direction as the 2018-19 Reyner Banham Fellow. Examples of this work are also installed as part of an exhibition organized by Faruki in the Hayes Hall Atrium Gallery.
Lauren Weiss Bricker
3/9/19
March 6-7, 2019
Join us for a public lecture with architectural historian Lauren Weiss Bricker, who comes to UB as our 2019 Clarkson Chair in Planning.
Good Neighbors: An Exhibition
3/11/19
March 8 - 29, 2019
Showcasing the work of three successive undergraduate architectural design studios, Good Neighbors proposes the exploration of space at the domestic scale in the city of Buffalo, which is known as the City of Good Neighbors.
Andrew Berman
3/13/19
March 13, 2019
Andrew Berman will present a range of built work and discuss the unique project parameters as well as ongoing concerns and objectives that inform the design process of each building.
"See It Through Buffalo" - NYC film screening, panel conversation and reception
3/21/19
March 21, 2019
Join us for a critical conversation that draws lessons from Buffalo on the role of architecture and planning schools in place-based urban regeneration
Daniel Libeskind
3/26/19
NOW RESCHEDULED for TUESDAY, March 26 at 6 pm.
This lecture will focus on the current work of Studio Daniel Libeskind and the detailed examination of specific projects.
Atelier Week 2019
4/1/19
April 1 - 5, 2019
Celebrate the work and intellectural life of our school. Aterlier 2019 kicks off April 1 with Open Studio and concludes with our Beaux Arts Ball.
Oren Safdie
4/2/19
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
The nationally celebrated playwright Oren Safdie presents a read-through of “Color Blind," a new play that satirizes the racial politics of a fictional jury assembled to select a winning design for the National Museum of African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington DC.
Symposium of Architectural History: The Whiteness of 19th Century American Architecture
4/3/19
April 3, 2019
This symposium examines the racial discourses that subtended "American Architecture" movements during the long nineteenth century.
Sarah Lopez
4/10/19
April 10, 2019
Sarah Lopez focuses the construction and design of migrant detention facilities in Texas since the 1960s in relation to immigration policy and private prison practices.
Staging Fascism: Contemporary Artistic Practice and Rationalist Urban Space
4/11/19
April 11, 2019
Join us for a conversation on the complex interrelation between artistic practices and their historically charged subjects in urban environments. How can artists, historians, and architects address these issues as critical observers rather than accomplices?
Now What?!
4/17/19
April 17 - August 7
Now What?! features a presentation and panel discussion which examine the little-known history of architects and designers working to further the causes of the civil rights, women’s, and LGBTQ movements of the past fifty years.
Adapting buildings for a changing climate
4/18/19
April 16 - May 16 (please not the rescheduled dates/times)
Join the School of Architecture and Planning's Resilient Buildings Lab for a series of webinars focused on the impacts of climate change on New York State’s building sector. Up to six AIA LU/HSW available.
Jane Battersby
4/24/19
April 24, 2019
Jane Battersby presents findings from research conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe to frame the impacts of existing planning on food security, but also the potential for more food sensitive planning to emerge.
Reconstructing the Grow House on the University @ Buffalo's South Campus
4/25/19
April 25, 2019
Join ASHRAE Buffalo Student Chapter + UB AIAS for a Solar Decathlon “GRoW Home” Tour & Professional Networking Night.
Research for Successful Aging: People, Policy, Practice & Petite Presentations
4/25/19
April 25, 2019
Five researchers from across UB share their scholarly passions in snappy seven minute presentations and lively Q&A. Reception to follow.
Awards Day 2019
5/1/19
May 1, 2019
Come celebrate the 2018 - 2019 academic year with Awards Day! Come and have fun with awards, pizza, prizes and fun!
Spring 2019 Final Reviews in Architecture
5/6/19
May 6 - May 14, 2019
Join us for our Spring 2019 final reviews. The series of reviews starts with Freshman reviews starting May 6 and runs through May 14. Explore student work from freshman to senior studio, our graduate research groups and thesis and directed research from our master's programs.
Alfred Price delivers farewell lecture
5/10/19
May 10, 2019

Join us as we celebrate Prof. Alfred Price's 42 years of dedicated service to teaching and research at the School of Architecture and Planning
Affordable House(s) Show
5/14/19
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
See student concepts in affordable housing developed under the direction of Brad Wales and the architecture program's Small Built Works program. Presented in partnership with PUSH Buffalo.