Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents (February 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59532 59532-14748091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation practice Carlo Ratti Associati. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life, his work has been exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum, and Barcelona’s Design Museum. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been included in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 people who will change the world’. He is currently serving as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, and as special advisor on Urban Innovation to the European Commission.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:04:26 -0500 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Better Futures Carlo Ratti
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Building Better Futures: Innovations in Equitable Development (February 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59374 59374-14734948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Cities have made a remarkable comeback, however large swaths of their populations are being left behind. Developers, lenders, advocates, and policy makers work to mitigate these disparities by creating innovative solutions and opportunity through equitable development. Now more than ever, new approaches are required to make cities places where individuals and families can thrive. At the center of making this work are initiatives that put equity at their core and strive to find the right mix of public, private, nonprofit, and grassroots policies, investments, and strategies that serve the needs of all residents and workers.

In Building Better Futures: Innovations in Equitable Development, U-M Taubman College will convene experts at the forefront of designing, financing, developing and promoting better buildings, better outcomes and better futures for all across race, income, age, ability, household type and geography. This conference will examine the ground-breaking policy mechanisms, design innovations, and financial incentives that connect communities, build wealth, and create frameworks to promote equity across demographics. Join us as we investigate, define, and present solutions for social and equitable development to build better futures.

"Building Better Futures" is organized in partnership with University of Michigan Poverty Solutions, an initiative that combines the assets of the university toward the prevention and alleviation of poverty, with additional support from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:57:09 -0500 2019-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Building Better Futures
Robotics Interfaces with Architecture (March 15, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61968 61968-15250098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Simon Kim’s recent research has been an engagement with sensate environments: architecture of nonhuman agency in private spaces and in the commons. He is a licensed architect and researcher in applied sciences within the disciplines of architecture and urbanism. His research interests are the architectural implications of compound intelligence, autonomous devices, and their mediated design experiences. As an artist and designer, he has produced works on entropy, communication, and reconfiguration for the MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the ICA.

Director of the Immersive Kinematics Lab and Principal of Ibañez Kim, his projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Pew Center for Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canadian Heritage Foundation. He is also supported by residencies and fellowships at Autodesk, RAIR Philadelphia, MIT, and the Seoul Biennale. His graduate courses have partnerships with Seoul National University, Opera Philadelphia, and Tyler School of Art.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:26:42 -0500 2019-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Michigan Robotics Workshop / Seminar Melting speaker
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Lecture: Mitchell Silver (March 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62243 62243-15335288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Mitchell Silver became Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks in May 2014. Commissioner Silver is also the immediate past president of the American Planning Association (APA). Mitchell is an award-winning planner with over 30 years of experience. He is internationally recognized for his leadership in the planning profession and his contributions to contemporary planning issues. As Parks Commissioner, Mitchell oversees management, planning and operations of nearly 30,000 acres of parkland, which includes parks, playgrounds, beaches, marinas, recreation centers, wilderness areas and other assets.

Prior to returning to his native New York City, he served as the Chief Planning & Development Officer and Planning Director for Raleigh, NC. In Raleigh, he led the comprehensive plan update process and a rewriting of the development code to create a vibrant 21st century city. He was the Dunlop Lecturer in Housing and Urbanization at Harvard University, and in 2014 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Planning Association.

Mitchell received a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College in NYC.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:24:46 -0400 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Art and Architecture Building
USPTO’s Outreach Program for Graphic Designers (March 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61544 61544-15126023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: University Library

In this workshop, graphic designers will learn the fundamentals of both trademarks and copyrights and the potential pitfalls of infringement. This program highlights how success as a graphic designer has as much to do with legal and ethical considerations as it does about being creative.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:05:09 -0500 2019-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building University Library Workshop / Seminar Trademark basics
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Charles Correa International Lecture: Sou Fujimoto, "Between Nature and Architecture" (April 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59578 59578-14752350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido in 1971. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University, he established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. In 2018, he won two International Competitions for the Village Vertical in site of Rosny-sous-Bois and for the HSG Learning Center in Saint Gallen. In 2017, he was the winner of two International Competitions, for the Nice Meridia and the Floating Gardens in Brussels. In 2016, he has won the 1st prize for “Pershing”, one of the sites in the French competition called ‘Réinventer Paris', following the victories in the Invited International Competition for the New Learning Center at Paris-Saclay's Ecole Polytechnique and the International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier in 2014. In 2013 he became the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. His notable works include; “Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013” (2013), “House NA” (2011), “Musashino Art University Museum & Library” (2010), “Final Wooden House”(2008), “House N” (2008) and many more.

The Charles Correa International Lecture Fund was established in 2016 in honor and memory of renowned Indian architect and activist Charles Correa (B.Arch.’53). The fund endows an annual lecture at Taubman College by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism to promote cultural understanding through design.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:38:59 -0500 2019-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Sou Fujimoto
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents J. Robert F. Swanson Lecture: Shohei Shigematsu (April 5, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59581 59581-14752352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Shohei Shigematsu is a Partner at OMA and the Director of the New York office. He has been a driving force behind many of OMA’s projects, leading the firm’s diverse portfolio in the Americas for the past decade. With an emphasis on maximum specificity and process-oriented design, Sho provides design leadership and direction across the company for projects from their conceptual onset to completed construction.

Sho is responsible for cultural projects across North America, including Milstein Hall, an extension to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University; a new museum for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; and the Faena Forum, a multi-purpose venue in Miami Beach. Sho’s cultural projects currently in progress include a museum expansion for the New Museum in New York City; an extension to the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York; and an event space for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Sho has also designed exhibitions for Prada, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Park Avenue Armory and is currently designing Dior’s first US retrospective at Denver Art Museum. He has collaborated with multiple artists – including Cai Guo- Qiang, Marina Abramović, Kanye West and Taryn Simon - and is currently redesigning Sotheby's New York headquarters.

Sho’s urban and public space designs around the world include the Willow Campus masterplan, an integrated mixed-use village for Facebook in Menlo Park, California; a mixed-use development in Santa Monica; a new civic center in Bogota, Colombia; a post-Hurricane Sandy urban water strategy for New Jersey; and in Toronto, the largest transit-oriented development currently underway in North America.

Sho has built a number of innovative workspaces including – the China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing (2012), and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters (2013). He is currently designing a new business center in Fukuoka (2020) and OMA’s first tower in Tokyo for Mori Building Co, Ltd. (2022). Sho’s designs for three residential projects are under construction across the country – from New York to San Francisco and Miami.

A design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sho has lectured at TED and Wired Japan conference, and at universities throughout the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:57:03 -0500 2019-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Shohei Shigematsu
Instant Knowledge: Detroit (April 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63285 63285-15612037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: History of Art

This workshop will focus on data-objects, or historical, data-based research and mapping projects related to Detroit, from the 1930s to the 1980s. Students and invited guests will reflect about these objects in the context of the Cold War and the global dimension or urbanization processes, and in relationship to the Mapping Detroit project, currently prepared at Taubman College.

9:00 - 10:45AM: Detroit Cold War
Tim Barney
University of Richmond

Presentations from:
Jessica Puff
Anjelica Hope Perez
Bader AlBader & Christine Hwang

10:50 - 1:00PM: Detroit Global

Presentations:
Amit Ittyerah
Weican Zuo

Discussants:
Robert Fishman
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrio
Anya Sirota
Lukasz Stanek
Kathy Velikov
Claire Zimmerman

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:29:39 -0400 2019-04-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T14:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building History of Art Workshop / Seminar poster
Re: Housing: Detroit (September 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65577 65577-16615784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

As North American cities work through the long-term implications of globalization, disinvestment, and post-recession revitalization, affordable housing and community resilience are essential, but often elusive elements of urban life. In its inclusive vision of “A City for All,” Detroit’s unprecedented multi-pronged approach to housing and neighborhood preservation and development offers lessons relevant to both rapidly growing and Rust Belt cities looking to preserve existing housing stock and spark new development.

Re: Housing: Detroit, a symposium held in Detroit and Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan, will convene innovators and researchers across the academy, real estate, architecture, planning, housing advocacy, and the city of Detroit in pursuit of real solutions to Detroit’s “Missing Middle” density housing. Architects and developers working on current projects in Detroit will meet together with others working on similar projects in the US and internationally in the context of the Detroit’s Month of Design and biennial exhibition “Detroit Design 139.” Through panels focused on urban density, domestic arrangements, and development protocols, they will exchange current research and contemporary projects that address the design of inclusive, affordable, medium-density housing.

The symposium is part of a five-year collaboration between the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department and Taubman College, University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:50:58 -0400 2019-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T18:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion re- housing detroit
Lecture: Carme Pigem, RCR Arquitectes (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68032 68032-16986097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta finished their studies in Architecture at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès in 1987, and since 1988 they have worked together in their own studio, RCR ARQUITECTES, in Olot, the city where they were born with a team grown beside them. Since 1989 they have been consultant Architects to the Natural Park of National Interest in the Volcanic Zone of La Garrotxa and during their careers they have also tutored in Urbanism and Landscape Architecture. In 2017 they create the laboratory RCR LAB·A and in 2013 they have founded RCR BUNKA foundation to increase the architecture, landscape, arts and culture values in society. Today they promote and lead a Summer International Workshop in their studio based in the ancient foundry Barberí, from its laboratory structure RCR LAB·A.

They are the 2017 Pritzker Prize recipients, and have received continuous distinctions for their work, most notably the European Architecture Awards: Industry 2017 (Hofheide Crematorium), Spanish International Architecture Award 2015 (Soulages Museum); the International Award 2011 “Belgian Building Awards”; Mies van der Rohe awards in the European Union with a finalist work (Sant Antoni-Joan Oliver Library), four shortlisted works and two nominated; four international prize Contractworld; ten FAD awards; award exaequo IV Premi Europeu de Paisatge Rosa Barba (Rough Rock Park) and Special Mention European Urban Public Space Award 2014 (Theatre La Lira Public Space). They have won various national and international competitions ranging from a Lighthouse in Punta Aldea in 1988, through the Meditel new head-quarters in Casablanca, The Edge Business Bay in Dubai or the Condal linear park and Province Courts in Barcelona to the most recent ex-aequo the Miró country house and studio Museum in Mont-Roig del Camp.

RCR arquitectes have participated in several international exhibitions such in 1990 as the III Salon International de l’Architecture in Paris; the Venice Biennal 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016; and in 2006, On-Site: New Architecture in Spain, in the MoMA of New York and Madrid; and in 2010, Global Ends at Toto Gallery Ma in Tokyo. Their individual exhibitions (Works 1988-98) have taken place in Tokyo, (Exfoliacions) in Spain, (RCR Arquitectes) in Bielefeld of Germany, (RCR Arquitectes) in Ljubljana of Slovenia, (RCR Arquitectes Creativitat compartida) at Palau Robert in Barcelona, at Museo ICO in Madrid, at Palacio de Miramar in San Sebastián, (The Intangible Tangible) at House of Oris in Ceske Budejovice of Check Republic, (RCR: Papers) at Centre Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, (Landscapes of Ideas: the Sketches of RCR Architects) at Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb and the most recent (RCR. Works on paper) at Centro Cultural El Rule in Ciudad de México, (RCR Dream and Nature) in the Venize Biennale and (Geography of Dreams) at Toto Gallery Ma in Tokyo.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:59:06 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Carme Pigem
From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65602 65602-16966893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

From the climate imperatives to make the built environment carbon positive to novel material forming techniques such as 3D printing, concrete is undergoing a transformation along different fronts in the building industry. As computational design and digital fabrication technologies become mainstream in the AEC industries, scaling up to address construction level challenges, concrete holds tremendous promise for the future, not only in shaping our built environment but also in how we build, our ethos and aspirations. Yet, there are many hurdles to overcome. With traditional building processes steeped in protocols and regulations, moving R+D to the building sector requires an awareness of the different players, institutions, and contingencies that shape the contours of concrete innovation.

What approaches contribute to a smooth transfer of innovations to the building sector? Given new modes of manufacturing, what are the new codes and standards that will govern the path toward implementation? What cross-platform systems will need to be in place in order to facilitate automation and construction productivity? What are the new technologies and associated expertise that will emerge to redefine architectural practice and the building industry, especially to navigate and manage the increasingly multi-disciplinary teams?

This symposium, rather than a survey of contemporary concrete architecture, brings researchers and industry experts together from diverse disciplinary fields and areas of production – history & theory, engineering, construction technology, material science, design, and manufacturing – for a timely discussion centered on concrete as a building material with enormous potential for innovation. The symposium aims to foster and identify trajectories for advancing concrete research and align potential collaborative exchanges.

Co-organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the symposium will launch with an evening keynote lecture on Thursday, October 31, followed by a full day symposium on Friday, November 1. The format consists of paired presentations centered on different topics related to concrete research, with a second keynote lecture at noon. A closing panel discussion aims to chart trajectories and methodologies for research and collaboration. Friday’s event will conclude with an exhibition opening reception downtown at the Liberty Research Annex gallery, highlighting some of the work produced by participants, including a performance by Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini of Cemex.

The symposium is free and open to the public, and will also be available via live stream.

Keynote Lectures:
Thursday, October 31: Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology
Friday, November 1: Sarah Billington, Stanford University

Participants:
Lucia Allais, Princeton University
Brandon Clifford, MIT
Brian Ellis, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mike Fiske, Jacobs Space Exploration Group (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
María González Pendás, Columbia University
Vineet Kamat, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Kudless, CCA
Wanda Lau, Architect Magazine
Victor Li, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jerry Lynch, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jonathan Massey, University of Michigan Taubman College
Wes McGee, University of Michigan Taubman College
Forrest Meggers, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Shadi Nazarin, Penn State University
Tsz Yan Ng, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Nichols, Rice University
Davide Zampini, Cemex
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell AAP

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:36:05 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Concrete is a building material with enormous potential for innovation
Equity in the City Lunch Trivia (November 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69052 69052-17222092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Do you like hashtags? Do you like cities and urban theory? Do you despise gentrification? Do you need a break between noon and 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon? Then, we do have a thing for you. Join us for a trivia lunch! We will be playing a fun and informative Jeopardy game while enjoying lunch. If you want to form your own team, that’s cool. If you want to go solo, that’s cool too. No previous experience or expertise necessary. Lunch will be provided.
Registration is required at myumi.ch/DE30g.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:16:31 -0400 2019-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building Rackham Graduate School Social / Informal Gathering Art and Architecture Building
Practice Session No. 9 Lecture: Nader Tehrani and Arthur Chang (November 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69208 69208-17267183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Nader Tehrani is the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. Tehrani is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He was previously a professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as Head of the Department from 2010-2014. Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2007), the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. He has also received the Harleston Parker Award for the Northeastern University Multi-faith Spiritual Center and the Hobson Award for the Georgia Institute of Technology Hinman Research Building. Throughout his career, Tehrani has received eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards as well as numerous AIA, BSA and ID awards. Over the past six years, NADAAA has consistently ranked as a top design firm in Architect Magazine's Top 50 U.S. Firms List. He served as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He also recently served as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Arthur Chang is a Principal at NADAA. In Arthur Chang’s 15 years of professional practice he has acted as Designer and Project Manager of a variety of institutional, commercial, public and residential projects. Arthur has served as design lead on numerous award-winning projects. Arthur recently completed the Melbourne School of Design, a $98M project and winner of over a dozen international awards. Arthur is currently designing a new subway head-house for the MBTA in Boston’s Seaport District. He is also leading construction administration for a residence hall for the Rhode Island School of Design.

Practice Sessions is part of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Over a five-year period, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a practice session.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:57:48 -0500 2019-11-08T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion NADER TEHRANI WITH ARTHUR CHANG
2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium: Looking the Other Way: Exclusion within Pedagogy and Practice (January 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70923 70923-17753825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

This event will investigate recruitment, retention, and pedagogy in architecture and urban planning education and their implications for practice. This discussion will analyze how educational institutions perpetuate narrow ideologies that do not serve underrepresented communities, which have been historically excluded or harmed from architecture and planning. Without such representation, economic, political, and social inequalities are inscribed within the built environment due to systematic and institutional discrimination.

Panelists:
Kemba Braynon, Architect and Historic Preservationist of Quinn Evans
Malik Goodwin, President & Managing Member of Goodwin Management Group, LLC and Project Executive & COO of Ventra Group, LLC
Anika Goss, Executive Director of Detroit Future City
Sherita Smith, Executive Director of Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation

A reception in the Art & Architecture Building Commons at 6:00pm will be followed by a panel discussion in the Auditorium (Room 2104) at 7:00pm.

The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium at Taubman College is organized by a partnership of Urban Planning students and Architecture students.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:17:29 -0500 2020-01-16T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T20:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium ResistanceEducationImage
P+ARG Biennial Conference: "Utopia vs. the City" (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70918 70918-17753820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Is utopia simply what the city is not? The pastoral, the ethereal, the equitable, the apolitical, the unbuilt, the city to end all cities? Or is it (the exception to) the smart city? BIM’s telos, AI's metropolis, the singularity’s social network?

Then again, must utopia and the city be at odds? Perhaps urbanism is humanity's true soteriology. P+ARG's fifth biennial conference, Utopia vs. the City, questions both the endlessness of possibility and the finitude of existence.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 05 Jan 2020 20:31:44 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium P+ARG Biennial Conference: "Utopia vs. the City"
Utopia vs. the City Keynote: Saskia Sassen, Columbia University (January 31, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70919 70919-17753821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her new book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press 2014) now out in 15 languages. Recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), and the 5th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2018). Among older books are The Global City (Princeton University Press 1991/2001), and Guests and Aliens (New Press 1999). Her books are translated into over 20 languages. She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, including multiple doctor honoris causa, named lectures, and being selected as one of the top global thinkers on diverse lists. Most recently she was awarded the Principe de Asturias 2013 Prize in the Social Sciences and made a member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of Netherland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:39:28 -0500 2020-01-31T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Saskia Sassen
Lecture: Lesley Lokko (February 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70986 70986-17762335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Lesley Lokko is an architect, academic and the author of eleven best-selling novels. She served as Head of School at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and as of December 2019, she took up the post of Dean of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, New York. She trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture from 1989–1995, and gained her PhD in Architecture from the University of London in 2007. She has taught at schools in the US, the UK and South Africa. She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000); editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture and is on the editorial board of ARQ (Cambridge). She has been an on-going contributor to discourses around identity, race, African urbanism and the speculative nature of African architectural space and practice for nearly thirty years. She is a regular juror at international competitions and symposia, and is a long-term contributor to BBC World. In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners (Orion 2004), a UK-Guardian top forty best-seller, and has since then followed with ten further best-sellers, which have been translated into fifteen languages.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:58:40 -0500 2020-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lesley Lokko