- School Lecture Series 2007-2008
- Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Winter 2008
- Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Fall 2007
- Other Lectures, Winter 2008
- Other Lectures, Fall 2007
- Urban Design film series, Winter 2008
School Lecture Series 2007-2008
Place: Room G10 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building (unless otherwise noted)
Time: 6:00 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Information: 398-6704
Coordination: Prof. Martin Bressani, Rami Abou Khalil, Jean-Roch Marion, Elvire Thouvenot-Nitzan, David Theodore
Thursday 13 September 2007
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
www.mcgill.ca/architecture/faculty/perez/
"Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics"
Followed by a reception and vernissage in the Exhibition Room
Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture Conference
Monday 15 October 2007
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie and Associates, Boston
www.msafdie.com
"Megascale, Order & Complexity"
(David J. Azrieli Lecture in Architecture)
NOTE special location: Leacock 132
NOTE special time: 7:30 pm
Vernissage of "Safdie's Sixties: Looking Forward to Looking Back" and reception sponsored by the RAIC and Novus precedes the lecture: Exhibition Room of the School of Architecture at 6:00 pm.
Tuesday 30 October 2007
John Ronan
John Ronan Architect, Chicago
www.jrarch.com
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Isabel Herault
Herault Arnod Architectes, France
www.herault-arnod.fr
"Parallèles: Nature, Corps, Peau"
Wednesday 23 January 2008
David Erdman
David Clovers, Los Angeles
http://davidclovers.com
"Mass Mysteria"
Tuesday 5 February 2008
Steve Badanes
University of Washington, Seattle
www.jerseydevildesignbuild.com
(Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor in Architecture)
Tuesday 12 February 2008
David Brett
Belfast
The Plain Style: Protestant Theology in the History of Design
On Decoration
"Pleasure"
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Brian Stacy
ARUP, New York
"All Light is Natural"
(Canlyte Lighting Lecture)
www.canlyte.com
Tuesday 11 March 2008
Teresa Sapey
Teresa Sapey Estudio de Arquitectura, Madrid
www.teresasapey.com
(William Hobart Molson Lecture)
Tuesday 18 March 2008
Nanako Umemoto
Reiser + Umemoto, New York
www.reiser-umemoto.com
(Sheila Baillie Lecture)
Tuesday 25 March 2008
Gramazio & Kohler
Gramazio & Kohler Architektur und Städtbau, Zurich
www.gramaziokohler.com
"Digital Materiality"
(Siew Fang Chan Lecture)
Wednesday 16 April 2008
Steve Burrows
ARUP, San Francisco
Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest)
"The Curse of Being an Engineer" (Beijing Olympic Stadium)
(Steel Structures Education Foundation Lecture)
Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series,
Winter 2008
Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Baharan Khosravi and Christine Djerrahian
Tuesday 5 February 2008
Ilona Dougherty
"Using art, design, and creativity for social change:
How to make your career matter"
Tuesday 12 February 2008
Cécile Martin
"The meeting of art, architecture and new technologies in the public space"
Tuesday 4 March 2008
Basil Cavis and Jacques Bernard
"A Project for the Community"
Thursday 27 March 2008
Martin Vissers
"Housing in the Netherlands: An impression of two popular building methods for low-rise housing"
Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series,
Fall 2007
Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Baharan Khosravi and Christine Djerrahian
Tuesday 13 November 2007
Rob Claiborne
"Unnecessary Spaces"
Thursday 22 November 2007
Phil Gabriel
"Architecture Lighting"
Other Lectures, Winter 2008
Monday 31 March 2008
Andrea Gabor
Urban Strategies Inc., Toronto
www.urbanstrategies.com
"Designing for Sustainable Communities"
(Spring 2008 Brenda and Samuel Gewurz Lecture in Urban Design)
Other Lectures, Fall 2007
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Trevor Marchand
School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
"The Future of Mud: A tale of houses and lives in Djenné"
(Film directed by Susan Vogel, followed by Q&A)
Monday 29 October 2007
Larry Beasley
Distinguisehd Practice Professor, UBC
"Making a Great City by Design: Themes from Recent Vancouver Experience"
(Inaugural Brenda and Samuel Gewurz Lecture in Urban Design)
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Ricardo L. Castro
McGill School of Architecture
www.mcgill.ca/architecture/faculty/castro/
"Rogelio Salmona: Five Hermetic Projects"
Urban Design Film Series, Winter 2008
cinés/cités
Place: Room 212 or G10 (please check poster) of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 7:00 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Information: 398-6704
Coordination: Prof. Lawrence Bird, Prof. Nik Luka
Monday 14 January 2008
Metropolis
Dir. Fritz Lang, 1926
Monday 21 January 2008
Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città)
Dir. Francesco Rosi, 1963
Monday 28 January 2008
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Dir. Gregory Greene, 2004
Monday 4 February 2008
Léolo
Dir. Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992
Monday 11 February 2008
Classic National Film Board documentaries on the
Canadian city
"Farewell Oak Street" (1953)
"A report on redevelopment: Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance" (1961)
"To build a better city" (1964)
Monday 18 February 2008
Blade Runner
Dir. Ridley Scott, 1982/2007
Monday 3 March 2008
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin)
Dir. Wim Wenders, 1987
Monday 10 March 2008
Contemporary short urban documentaries
"Vancouverism in Vancouver" (dir. Julie Bogdanowicz and Robin Anderson, 2006)
"East Side Showdown" (dir. Robin Benger, 1998)
Monday 17 March 2008
Hatred (La Haine)
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Lagos Wide and Close
Dir. Bregtje van der Haak, 2005