2013-2014

  1. Winter 2014
  2. Fall 2013
  3. Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Winter 2014
  4. Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Fall 2013
  5. History and Theory of Architecture lecture series, Winter 2014

Selected lectures are available on McGill PODCASTS.

 

Winter 2014

 

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. Aaron Sprecher
Student committee: Clothilde Caillé-Lévesque, Jan Casimir, Fouzi Ouadhi, Etienne Sédillot, Kristen Too


Monday 13 January 2014

Eric Gauthier
Architect, Les Architectes FABG, Montreal
"Recent Projects"
(Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor in Architecture)


Monday 27 January 2014

Oren Safdie
Playwright
"Private Jokes, Public Places"  (film screening, followed by Q&A)


Monday 17 February 2014

Manuelle Gautrand
Principal, Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, Paris
"To Re-enchant the City"
(Sheila Baillie Lecture)


Monday 10 March 2014

Georges Teyssot
Professor, École d'architecture, Université Laval, Québec
"A Topology of the Everyday"
(Followed by a book presentation)


Monday 17 March 2014

Paul Kassabian
Engineer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Boston
Lecturer, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT
"Design (R)evolution: New Approaches to Structural Design and Performance"
(Steel Structures Education Foundation Lecture)


Monday 24 March 2014

Mark Major
Principal, Speirs + Major, London and Edinburgh
"Light + Dark = Architecture"
(Axis Lighting Lecture)


Monday 31 March 2014

(rescheduled from February 24)

Ipek Türeli
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, McGill University
"Housing for Spatial Justice"


Fall 2013

 

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. Aaron Sprecher
Student committee: Clothilde Caillé-Lévesque, Jan Casimir, Fouzi Ouadhi, Etienne Sédillot, Kristen Too


Monday 9 September 2013

Bjarke Ingels
Principal, Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen and New York
"Yes is More"
(David J. Azrieli Lecture in Architecture)
NOTE special location: Leacock 132
NOTE special time: 6:30 pm


Monday 30 September 2013

Michael Hansmeyer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
"Digital Grotesque"
(William Hobart Molson Lecture)


Monday 21 October 2013

Matthew Lella
Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects, Toronto
"Performance Space"
(Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor in Architecture)


Monday 28 October 2013

Didier Faustino
Architect and Artist, Mésarchitecture, Paris
"Brutal Fragility"
(Siew Fang Chan Lecture)


Monday 11 November 2013

Katherine Clarke
Artist Partner, muf architecture/art, London
"Prototyping Uncertainty"
(Sheila Baillie Lecture)


 

Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Winter 2014

 

Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Mirna Wasef and Leila Rached-d'Astous

 


Tuesday 8 April 2014

Morgan Carter
"Ecologies of Place: Landscape, Energy, and Material Assembly"


Tuesday 11 February 2014

Shawn Moscovitch
"Touch the Earth Lightly: 2 Weeks with Glenn Murcutt"


 

Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Fall 2013

 

Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Mirna Wasef and Leila Rached-d'Astous

 


Monday 7 October 2013

Lynne Horiuchi
"Dislocations and Relocations:
The Planning, Designing and Building of Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II"


Tuesday 15 October 2013

Ronnie Araya
Research Associate, CAST, University of Manitoba
"Experimental Projects in Concrete Formed with Textiles"


Tuesday 12 November 2013

Elizabeth Cahn
“Project Space(s) in the Design Professions: The Women's School of Planning and Architecture, 1974-1981”


Tuesday 19 November 2013

Matthew Griffin
“Expanding Architecture”


Monday 25 November 2013

Nanne de Ru
“Keeping it Real: Nanne de Ru on Powerhouse Company and the Berlage”


 

History and Theory of Architecture lecture series, Winter 2014

 

Place: Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library Building, 3459 McTavish, 4th floor
Time: 4:30 pm

 


Friday 18 April 2014

Dr. Lian Chang
Director of Research and Information, ACSA
"Proportioning Bodies: Articulation and the Origins of Architecture in Ancient Greece"
Place: School of Architecture, room 212


Wednesday 23 April 2014

Dr. Stephen Parcell
Professor, School of Architecture, Dalhousie University
"Four Historical Definitions of Architecture"


Friday 25 April 2014

Dr. Louise Pelletier
Professor, École de Design, Université du Québec à Montréal
"A Conversation around the Genius of Architecture: The World of Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières"
Place: CCA Library
Time: 3:00 pm

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