Looking Askance

Sep. 22, 2021

Join Alison Killing, journalist and architect, as she shares her team's investigation of the network of detention camps built by China in the northwest region of Xinjiang, as part of its campaign of oppression against Turkic Muslims.

Nov. 3, 2021

Join architect and educator Peggy Deamer as she examines the structural role of competition in the field of architecture and identifies nodes for redirecting architectural creative talents.

Oct. 27, 2021

Join architect and educator Elgin Checkley of _mpathic design to explore the firm's engagement with the urban fabric of Washington, D.C., during the summer of 2021. Experience what the built environment feels like through Blackness - a year after our collective racial reckoning - to achieve goals for inclusive public spaces. 

Oct. 20, 2021

Join Mark Jarzombek, professor of history and theory of architecture at MIT, as he explores the tension between the architect and the faber, and its disciplinary history tracing it forward even into the work of Mies van der Rohe and other more contemporary architects such as Maki and Associates and OMA.

Oct. 6, 2021

Join Samaneh Moafi, senior researcher at Forensic Architecture, as she examines the role of image and video footage circulating on social media platforms in bringing accountability.

Nov. 17, 2021

Join Renia Ehrenfeucht, a professor of planning at the University of New Mexico, in a discussion on how grassroots action and everyday life has the power to reshape our societies and address grand challenges such as social and climate justice.

Feb 23, 2022

Join Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX, as he presents "Rethinking Flexibility," a call to reconfigure the profession's continued reliance on antiquated modernist visions of flexibility: a blank slate (or white cube or black box) upon which any activity can occur - an approach that has historically produced banal, sterile architecture.

April 20, 2022

Join Maggie Cao, David G. Frey Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as she examines South American and Caribbean landscapes, arguing that“hothouse” plants and ruins helped construct the southern tropics as a colonial space defined by racial hierarchies.

March 30, 2022

Join Yutaka Sho, co-founder of GAC, as she talks about how architects could deploy aesthetics as a tool to ally with the underrepresented.

April 27, 2022

Join Dolores Hayden, Professor Emerita of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies at Yale University, as she presents "Domestic Revolutions: Spaces of Care, Then and Now," reflecting upon how care work has evolved - particularly in context of the pandemic - and the implications of this labor for architecture and urban design.

March 16, 2022

Join Kenneth Bailey, co-founder of the Design Studio for Social Intervention, as he reimagines the relation of infrastructure in which communities work and play together to improve the quality of public life.

Feb. 10, 2022

Harry Dimitriou, Bartlett Professor of Planning Studies at the University College London, discusses the need for the development of enhanced and adaptive strategic decision-making frameworks for mega infrastructure investment. Dimitriou is also director of the OMEGA Centre for Mega Infrastructure and Development, based at University College London. 

March 9, 2022

Join local professionals and industry leaders for the annual "Table Talks" networking event. For the lecture portion of the event, Michael Tunkey, Denise Juron-Borgese and Stuart Green discuss the design process behind the 201 Ellicott mixed-use development project, including working within the Buffalo Green Code and navigating multiple community stakeholders to create affordable housing and a fresh food market in Buffalo’s Central Business District.

March 2, 2022

Débora Mesa Molina, principal of Ensamble Studio, discusses her firm's balance of imagination and reality, art and science, toward innovative typologies, technologies and methodologies that advance architecture with an interdisciplinary approach. Through their startup WoHo, they are developing ways to increase quality and affordability in architecture through the integration of offsite technologies.

We're pleased to announce the Spring '22 lineup in this year's public programs series, convening thought leaders from across our disciplines to consider the socio-spatial disruptions of the past few years and offer critical reflection on the status quo. 

We're pleased to announce the Spring '22 lineup in our Spring 2022 public programs as we convene thought leaders from across our disciplines to consider the socio-spatial disruptions of the past few years and offer critical reflection on the status quo.