Lectures

Carlo Bailey is a research scientist at Topos, a location intelligence start-up bringing advanced machine learning to the commercial real estate industry. Previously, he was a researcher in WeWork’s applied sciences team. His work focuses on machine learning, agent-based modeling, data visualization, real estate and architecture, as well as creative coding. He graduated from Columbia [...]

Charles Gosrisirikul Gluck+ Bridge-ing the Divide: Architect Led Design-Build in Practice Charles Gosrisirikul is an architect and builder who has worked on projects of varying scales in locations including Dubai, Madrid and Bangkok. Currently he is an Associate and Project Manager at GLUCK+, the architect-led design build firm founded by Peter Gluck that challenges architects [...]

DK Osseo-Asare is cofounding principal of the transnational architecture and integrated design studio Low Design Office (LOWDO), based in Austin, Texas, and Tema, Ghana. He is also cofounder of the pan-African open tech initiative, Agbobloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), and assistant professor of architecture and engineering design at Penn State University, where he runs the Humanitarian [...]

Virginia Hanusik is an artist and writer whose work explores the relationship between landscape, culture, and the built environment. Her projects on climate change and environmental justice have been exhibited internationally, featured in Domus, Places Journal, NPR, Fast Company, Oxford American, Newsweek, and The Atlantic, among others, and supported by the Graham Foundation and Mellon [...]

Christian Benimana joined MASS Design Group as a Global Health Corps Design Fellow in 2010. Today, he works as one of the firm's senior principals and managing directors, and is director of the African Design Centre, a field-based apprenticeship that is set to empower leaders who will design a more equitable, just, and sustainable world. [...]

Al D’Elia ' 73 B A  L A The Field of Architecture With more than 25 years of architectural design, construction management and facilities experience, Al D'Elia is involved in streamlining design and construction processes and improve interdisciplinary productivity. He has held prestigious positions at renowned architecture/design firms such as Gensler, Mancini Duffy, JPMorganChase, and [...]

Join CCNY President Vince Boudreau and Dean Lesley Lokko as they discuss a wide range of topics including Boudreau’s 25-year career at CCNY; his research as a political scientist; the importance and role of architecture in climate, environmental, and social justice; educational entrepreneurship; and why public service matters.   The spring 2020 SCIAME lecture series [...]

Kelly Bair is partner at BairBalliet and director of graduate studies and associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Architecture. Bair has also taught in Los Angeles at UCLA, SCI-Arc, and Woodbury University. She brings over a decade of experience in the architectural profession working as a project designer at various [...]

Alessandra Cianchetta (AWP Ltd Architects, UK) is a London-based architecture and urban design practice with a growing international reputation for innovation and place-making, formerly based in Paris. Cianchetta’s portfolio includes master planning and design projects for high-profile urban regeneration projects, including the Paris Central Business District, as well as major commissions for private and public [...]

Mae-ling Lokko (Ghana/Philippines) is an architectural scientist and building technology researcher whose work centers on the upcycling of agrowaste and biopolymer materials into high-performance clean-building material systems for humidity control, indoor air-quality remediation, and water-quality-control applications. Lokko holds a PhD and MSc in Architectural Science from the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, Rensselaer Polytechnic [...]