IIT College of Architecture Upcoming Lectures

Chicago, IL — September 10, 2007 —

Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture will present the following lectures this fall. All lectures are free and open to the public.

19 September, Wednesday
Carol Ross Barney, Visiting Professor of Architecture, IIT
Principal, Ross Barney Architects
“Material Investigations”
6 p.m. McCloska Auditorium, McCormick Tribune Campus Center
3201 S. State St., Chicago

27 September, Thursday
Charles Waldheim, Dean and Director of the Landscape Architecture Program, University of Toronto
Dirk Sijmons, Dutch National Landscape Architect
“About the Necessity of Gardening: Landscape Policy and Regional Planning in the Green Heart of America and Holland”
6 p.m. McCloska Auditorium, McCormick Tribune Campus Center
3201 S. State St., Chicago

13 October, Saturday
Celebrating George Danforth, featuring New York Times Reporter David Dunlap, WFMT's Andrew Patner, John Vinci, Deever Rockwell and written remarks by Franz Schulze
3:30 p.m. Crown Hall, Center Core
3360 S. State Street, Chicago
Mies van der Rohe Lecture

17 October, Wednesday
Billie Tsien, Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects
“Rough Edges Slow Down”
6 p.m. McCloska Auditorium, McCormick Tribune Campus Center
3201 S. State St., Chicago

2 November, Friday
Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University
“Reading Architecture: A Comparative Critique”
5:30 p.m. Re-Opening Celebration of the Graham Resource Center, IIT’s expanded architecture library
6:30 p.m. Lecture, Crown Hall, Center Core

5 November, Monday
Jinhee Park, principal, Single Speed Design
2007 Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at Boston Architectural College
“Recent Projects”
6 p.m. Crown Hall, Center Core

14 November, Wednesday
Ricky Burdett, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science; Principal Design Adviser for the London 2012 Olympics.
“Global Cities in an Urban Age”
6 p.m. Crown Hall, Center Core
3360 S. State St., Chicago

 

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