IIT College of Architecture Announces Fall Lecture Schedule
The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture is pleased to announce its fall lecture series, including:
30 August, Wednesday
Lecture by Chandra Goldsmith, IIT Adjunct Associate Professor, Landscape Architect
And Sarah Dunn, Urbanlab, Assistant Professor, UIC
"The Greening of Crown Hall"
6 p.m. Crown Hall, Lower Core
3360 S. State St.
Free and open to the public
6 September, Wednesday
Lecture by Carlos Ferrater, Architect, Barcelona, Spain
"Synchronizing Geometry"
6 p.m. McCloska Auditorium, McCormick Tribune Campus Center
3210 S. State St.
Free and open to the public
"Synchronizing Geometry"
Exhibition 6 September 5-22 September
Crown Hall, North Core
The exhibition shows the investigation and experimental work of the architecture office of Carlos Ferrater Partnership since 1989. Several geometrical mechanisms, such as nets, ribbons, meshes, or folds, are applied in projects of different scales, structuring the first sket6ches and adapting to the specific programs and construction processes.
13 September, Wednesday
Lecture by Leslie Van Duzer, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Dayton Hudson Faculty Fellow
“Adolf Loos and the Muller Villa”
6 p.m. Hermann Union Building Ballroom
3241 S. Federal
Free and open to the public
“Adolf Loos, Muller Villa, Prague”
Exhibition 13 July-30 September
The villa for Milada and Frantisek Muller in Prague (1928-30) is the chef-d’oeuvre of the international architectural avant-garde. It is an example of the rare concord between an enlightened client and a brilliant architect and the embodiment of the surprising harmony between modern Functionalism and the classic English style. The exhibition consists of 50 panels, two architectural models, and material samples covering the history of the Villa and all aspects of the restoration highlighting materials, architectural details, and furnishings. An additional 20 panels show the prerestoration conditions of the Villa.
25 September, Monday
Lecture by Piet Oudolf, World-renowned Garden Designer, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture
"Planting Design"
McCormick Tribune Campus Center, McCloska Auditorium
6 p.m.
Free and open to the public
11 October, Wednesday
Lecture by Helmut Meyer, TRANSSOLAR Energietechnik GmbH, Stuttgart
"Mainstreaming Ecompatible Design Practices: Transitions to Large-Scale Sustainable Buildings"
6 p.m. Crown Hall, lower core
Free and open to the public
19 October, Thursday
Leslie E. Robertson, Director of Design, Leslie E. Robertson Associates, R.L.L.P.,
Professor, Princeton University
"Buildings: Tall and Small"
6 p.m.
Crown Hall, center core
Free and open to the public
25-26 October, Wednesday-Thursday
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Chicago International Conference
"Thinking Outside the Box: Tapered, Tilted, Twisted Towers"
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Hermann Union Building, 3241 S. Federal St.
Information: 312.909.0253, www.ctbuh.org or gkery@ctbuh.org
Confirmed Speakers include: Charles Reid, Daniel Libeskind, Jamie von Klemperer, Jeanne Gang, Karrel Vollers, Ken Yeang, Lee Herzog, Mark Zobec, Michael Willford, Peter Wynne Rees, Roy Denoon, Shahab Lufti, Yansong Ma, and Zaha Hadid.
New buildings that taper, tilt and twist hold the potential to reshape skylines and provide designers with an unprecedented ability to manipulate light and space—both inside and outside their buildings. These new structures challenge designers, builders and developers. Technological obstacles must be overcome, the safety of occupants must be ensured and the risk of cost and schedule overrun must be minimized. This conference explores the challenges that face designers of irregularly shaped structures and attempts to understand the promise they hold for the future of tall buildings.
Myron Goldsmith Lecture
8 November Wednesday
William Pedersen FAIA FAAR, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects New York/London/Shanghai
"Recent Work"
6 p.m., Crown Hall, center core
Free and open to the public.
William Pedersen is the principal Design Partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, which has earned the Architectural Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of Honor by the New York Chapter of the AIA. Pedersen has received the AIA National Honor Award six times in recognition of each of the following projects: 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago (1984); Procter & Gamble World Headquarters in Cincinnati (1987); World Bank in Washington D.C. (1998); the New Academic Complex, City University of New York/Baruch College (2003); Westendstrasse 1/DG Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany (1994); and the Gannett/USA Today Headquarters in Virginia (2005). Other major projects include the highly publicized World Financial Center in Shanghai and the New York Sports and Convention Center in Manhattan. An international lecturer and juror, he has degrees in architecture from the University of Minnesota and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For more information, contact Jane Rothschild Ellis at (312) 567-3279 or ellis@iit.edu.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s more than 6,700 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace. IIT students and faculty represent a wealth of intellectual capital for technology enterprise development.
