- Winter 2015
- Fall 2014
- Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Winter 2015
- Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Fall 2014
Selected lectures are available on McGill PODCASTS.
Lecture series on Facebook.
The School gratefully acknowledges support for our lecture series from PROVENCHER ROY ASSOCIÉS ARCHITECTES INC. & NEUF ARCHITECT(E)S.
Winter 2015
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. David Theodore
Student committee: Jacinthe Ricard, Étienne Sédillot, Andrew Brown
Monday 12 January 2015
Architecture, Time, and History
Anne Bordeleau and Martin Bressani in conversation with Ralph Ghoche
Book signing and reception to follow
Anne Bordeleau: Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time: Reflections around Anachronistic Drawings
Martin Bressani: Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879
Monday 26 January 2015
Anca Trandafirescu
Professor (Taubman College) and Artist (area.architecture), Ann Arbor
"proto-moments: the new work of projective architectural objects"
(Sheila Baillie Lecture)
Preceded by vernissage at 5:00 p.m. in the Exhibition Room
Tuesday 17 February 2015
Tatiana Bilbao
Architect, Tatiana Bilbao S.C., Mexico City
(William Hobart Molson Lecture)
Monday 23 February 2015
The New Architecture of Montreal Libraries
Guy Berthiaume (moderator), Manon Asselin, Randy Cohen, Dan Hanganu
Preceded by vernissage at 5:00 p.m. in the Exhibition Room
Monday 9 March 2015
Sylvia Smith
Senior Partner, FXFOWLE Architects, New York
(Steel Structures Education Foundation Lecture)
Preceded by the vernissage of the Top Ten Exhibition of the 2013-2014 SSEF Architectural Student Design Competition at 5:00 p.m. in the Exhibition Room
Monday 23 March 2015
Bruce Kuwabara
Founding Partner, KPMB Architects, Toronto
"Every Building Implies a City"
(David J. Azrieli Lecture in Architecture)
Location: Adams (FDA) Auditorium, 3450 University
Monday 30 March 2015
David Newton
Assistant Professor, McGill University School of Architecture, Montreal
"Meta-Design: the Design of Design"
Fall 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. David Theodore
Student committee: Jacinthe Ricard, Étienne Sédillot, Andrew Brown
Monday 8 September 2014
Ron Williams
Founding member, Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui & Associates Inc.
Professor (retired), U de M, Montreal
"Landscape Architecture in Canada"
Monday 20 October 2014
Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic
Architects, 5468796 architecture, Winnipeg
"Recent Work"
(Siew Fang Chan Lecture)
Monday 3 November 2014
Kai Piippo
Chief Designer, ÅF Lighting, Stockholm
"Nordic Lighting Design"
(Axis Lighting Lecture)
Monday 24 November 2014
Joe Carter
Architect, Towns Consultants, Beijing
"Building Cities: Perspectives from China"
(Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor in Architecture)
View the lecture slides here
Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Winter 2015
Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Alan Macquarrie and Aya Abdallah
Tuesday 17 February 2015
Prof. Pieter Sijpkes & Eric Barnett
"The Architecture of Phase Change: Large and Small Scale Ice Construction"
Tuesday 17 March 2015
Marie-Ève L. Brodsky
"Terrains Vagues: Appropriation, Transition and Abandon in Japan"
Tuesday 24 March 2015
Gonzalo Lizarralde
"The Invisible Houses: Rethinking and Designing Low-Cost Housing in Developing Countries"
Brown Bag: ASA-sponsored lecture series, Fall 2014
Place: Room 212 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Coordination: Alan Macquarrie and Aya Abdallah
Tuesday 9 September 2014
Michael Burt
Professor Emeritus, Architect, Technion ITT, Haifa
"The Quintuplet Phenomenon"
Tuesday 23 September 2014
David Vanderburgh
Professor of Design, Theory and History of Architecture, Université Catholique de Louvain
"Drawing from the Grey Zone"
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine
"Koolhaas Houselife: A Documentary"
Tuesday 2 December 2014
James Brittain
Architectural photographer
"Recent work"