Elisa Silva, “Territorial inequality and the urban Cassandras of our times”
As slums emerged in the XX century due to rapid rural-urban migration,…
Topic Practice
Balanced between concept and realization, design practice exposes the connections between the design imagination and the space in which it operates. By critically studying issues of practice, designers imagine new methods to advance their influence and to intervene in the world.
Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Michael Van Valkenburgh, “New Parks”
This lecture is summary of thirty years of park-making by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates with…
Marty Poirier, “The Creativity Continuum | How I learned about the place of art and design in culture”
Poirier will discuss the people and places that have shaped his sensibilities…
An Evening with Ian Schrager
Since the 70’s, entrepreneur Ian Schrager, Founder and Chairman of Ian Schrager Company,…
Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Lecture: PRACTICE: Outside In | Inside Out
This symposium considers discourse on contemporary issues of design practice in…
Sou Fujimoto, “Between Nature and Architecture”
In this lecture Fujimoto will discuss the relationship between nature and architecture…
Alison Brooks, “Model Building Model: Making Oxford’s New Collegiate Architecture”
Alison Brooks has recently completed Oxford’s newest academic building,…
Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”
The European city is a nucleus in a network of approximately 500…
Reinier de Graaf, “Phantom Urbanism”
Once cities were designed to accommodate the masses; today the masses have…