The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents..."Beijing in Detroit", a lecture by Reinhold Martin.

Reinhold Martin is Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. Martin is a member of Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought and was a founding co-editor of the journal Grey Room. His books include The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (MIT Press, 2003), Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (Minnesota, 2010). Currently, Martin is working on a history of the nineteenth century American university as a media complex and a set of theoretical essays on the contemporary city. The latter is excerpted as an e-book, Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City, and forthcoming in full as The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City (Minnesota, 2016).

Professor Martin is the keynote speaker for the 2016 P+ARG conference.

About University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning:

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice, advancing global engagement, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report), Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, Master of Urban Design, and PhD programs.