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Please join us on Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 6 pm for our prestigious Lewis Mumford Lecture. This year we have the honor to welcome The New York Times staff writer Emily Badger, who will be presenting her lecture "Pressing Change in the Increasing Inflexible City." All lectures are free, open to the public, and...

This special lecture is held in person and is co-sponsored by UN Highlevel Water Conference in New York.   Carola Hein is Professor History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology, Professor at Leiden and Erasmus University and UNESCO Chair Water, Ports and Historic Cities. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban...

This lecture was held in person and was part of the Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation."   Leena Cho is an assistant professor and graduate program director in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia and co-director of Arctic Design Group and...

This lecture will be held in person and is part of the Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation."   Michelle G. Magalong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Historic Preservation program at the University of Maryland's School of Architecture. Planning and Preservation, where she previously...

This lecture will be held in person and is part of the Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation."   Bz Zhang (pictured on right) 张迪 is an architect, artist, organizer, and educator from Lenapehoking (纽约 New York),  安徽 Anhui, and 山东 Shandong, currently based in Tovaangar...

This lecture will be held in person and is part of the Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation."   Shiqiao Li is the Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, where he teaches history, theory, and design of architecture, and directs the...

This lecture was held on 11/17/22 and was part of the Spitzer Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.”   Arturo Ortiz Struck is a visual artist and architect. Currently he is leading Taller Territorial de México, a research centre on architecture, art, and urbanism. He was member...

This lecture is held in-person and is part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."   Loreta Castro Reguera, born in Mexico City in 1979 is architect and co-founder, with José Pablo Ambrosi, of Taller Capital. Their work focuses on the design of multifamily housing buildings...

This lecture is held in-person and is part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."   Miguel Rábago Dorbecker is professor of law at CIDE Law School. Previously he was professor in the Law Department of Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and  visiting professor at the...

This lecture is held in-person and is part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."   William Brinkman-Clark is a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research focuses on the cosmetic relation between the aesthetic and the politic as it regards public space...

This special lecture is held in-person and is co-sponsored by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History as the keynote for the SACRPH 2022 Harlem Conference.   Paul Farber is Co-founder and Director of Monument Lab. He is author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall and...

This lecture is held in-person and is part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."   C.J. Alvarez is the author of Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide, the first broad-sweeping history of building projects on the border. He is...

This lecture was held in-person and is part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."   Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, ASLA, is an Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at...

This lecture was held in-person and was part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled "Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas."   Ana María León's work traces how spatial practices and transnational networks of power and resistance shape the modernity and coloniality of the Americas. Her research and teaching foregrounds the agency...

This lecture is in the past and was presented via Zoom. The speakers have kindly agreed to make a recording of this talk available here. See above or on YouTube.   Please join us for the first of our Spring Lecture Series events, titled "Conversation: Black Land Consortium", featuring Jerome Haferd, Emanuel Admassu, Curry Hackett,...

Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled Architectures of Care. "Contra-Discipline and Civic Muscle" will feature Raúl Cárdenas Osuna. Free and open to the public -- please register here for this Zoom event. Raúl Cárdenas Osuna is the founder of Torolab (Tijuana, Mexico), an artist collective, workshop and laboratory of contextual studies...