- School Lecture Series 2009-2010
- Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Winter 2010
- Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Fall 2009
Selected lectures are available on McGill PODCASTS.
School Lecture Series 2009-2010
Place: Room G10 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building (unless otherwise noted)
Time: Mondays at 6:00 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Information: 398-6704
Coordination: Prof. Michael Jemtrud, Prof. Howard Davies
Students: Lilia Koleva, Valérie Lechêne, Andrew Chung, Michael Faciejew
Monday 21 September 2009
Ben Nicholson
"Beautifully Magic: Modernism in New Harmony"
Associate Professor of Architecture,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(William Hobart Molson Lecture)
Thursday 1 October 2009
Atelier Big City, Atelier In Situ, Atelier TAG
"The Roadshow: Architectural Landscapes of Canada"
Architectural Roadshow
NOTE special location: Lawn in front of School
(Alternative location, in case of rain: Exhibition Room)
NOTE special time: 7:00 pm
Monday 5 October 2009
John Rahaim
"San Francisco Stories"
Planning Director, City & County of San Francisco
(Brenda and Samuel Gewurz Lecture in Urban Design)
Monday 19 October 2009
Peter Eisenman
"Crises"
Eisenman Architects, New York
(David J. Azrieli Lecture in Architecture)
NOTE special location: Moyse Hall, Arts Building
Reception to follow in the Exhibition Room of the School of Architecture
Monday 26 October 2009
Kristin Jarmund
"Selected Works"
Kristin Jarmund Architects, Oslo
(With generous support from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa)
Vernissage of "Kristin Jarmund: Selected Works" precedes the lecture:
Exhibition Room of the School of Architecture at 5:00 pm
Monday 9 November 2009
Nathalie Rozot
"Night in the 21st Century: A Critical Study of Global Lighting Practices"
Nathalie Rozot, Planning and Design / Photic, New York
(Canlyte Philips Lighting Lecture)
Monday 16 November 2009
Brian Healy
"Commonplaces"
Brian Healy Architects, Boston
(Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor in Architecture)
Vernissage of the exhibition "Brian Healy: Transparent Constructions" precedes the lecture: Exhibition Room at 5:00 pm
View a podcast of the lecture online.
Monday 23 November 2009
Ricardo L. Castro
"Rogelio Salmona: A Tribute"
McGill School of Architecture
Book launch and signing follows the lecture: Exhibition Room
View a podcast of the lecture online.
Monday 18 January 2010
Gerald W. Billes
"The Rebuilding of New Orleans"
Billes Architecture, New Orleans
View a podcast of the lecture online.
Monday 25 January 2010
Renée Daoust
"From the City to the Object"
Daoust Lestage, Montreal
Monday 8 February 2010
Craig Dykers
"Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Public Realm"
Snøhetta, New York / Oslo
Monday 15 February 2010
Werner Sobek
"Sketches for the Future: Structure, Design, Ecology - A Constructive Dialogue"
Werner Sobek Engineering & Design, Stuttgart & Chicago
(Steel Structures Education Foundation Lecture)
Montreal Structural Engineers
View a podcast of the lecture online.
Monday 1 March 2010
Rick Miller
"The Architecture of Live Performance"
RickMiller.ca, Toronto
Monday 15 March 2010
Monica Ponce de Leon
"Disciplinary Transgressions"
Office dA, Boston, New York, Ann Arbor
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(Sheila Baillie Lecture)
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Monica Adair and Stephen Kopp
"It's not what you say"
the acre, Saint John, NB
(Gerald Sheff Visiting Professors in Architecture)
View a podcast of the lecture online.
Monday 22 March 2010
Erlend Blakstad Haffner
"Make it Fantastic"
Fantastic Norway Arkitekter AS, Oslo
Monday 29 March 2010
Dan Graham
"Work Between Art and Architecture"
Dan Graham, Artist, New York
View a podcast of the lecture online.
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Tim Macdonald
"Onion Flats Plumbob Jig Grass Blox"
Onion Flats, Philadelphia
Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series,
Winter 2010
Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Don Toromanoff
Thursday 8 April 2010
Diego Agudelo-Gallo
"Shhh...these walls have ears:
Explorations on the crossing of architecture, sound and music"
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Sevag Pogharian
Sevag Pogharian, SPD
"Getting to a Net Zero Energy Lifestyle in Canada:
Utilizing Solar Energy for Shelter, Mobility and Food"
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Lena Buchinger
"Carnet d'Orient"
Lena Buchinger creates a link between architecture, literature, and collective imagination by travelling through Greece and Turkey
Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series,
Fall 2009
Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Don Toromanoff
Friday 13 November 2009
Esra Akcan
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Visiting Scholar, CCA
"The Environment for Architecture: From Science-Metaphor to Ecology"