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Architects Dan Adams and Marie Law Adams, principals of Landing Studio, will speak at Penn State’s Stuckeman School on October 5. The lecture, “Just Infrastructure,” will examine highway and road corridors that support trade but often create environmental harm. The talk will be live streamed.

On September 30, Botswana-born artist and Yale School of Art professor Meleko Mokgosi will deliver a public lecture in conjunction with the opening of his exhibition, “Currents 12,”  at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Nana Biamah-Ofosu, a founder of Studio NYALI and lecturer at the Kingston School of Art in London, will deliver a public talk, “Making, Writing, & Speaking Architecture,” at the University of Johannesburg GSA on September 29. The talk will be live streamed.

The Urban Studies Program at Brown University is hosting a series of conversations on the theme of “what is the urban now?” The first event will take place on campus on September 20 with program director Sandy Zipp in conversation with University of Chicago professor Neil Brenner.

On September 23–24, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at University of Arkansas will host the symposium, “The Place of Practice/The Practice of Place.” Chaired by Marlon Blackwell, the event is an extension of the exhibition, “A South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South.” It will take place on campus and be accessible via Zoom.

Phill Mashabane, co-founder of the South African architectural and design studio Mashabane Rose Associates, will lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg on  September 13.

The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at University of Arkansas will launch its fall lecture series on September 11 with a talk by Yolande Daniels.

The Bartlett Together Festival will take place from Monday September 26 to Thursday September 29. This series of discussions and debates will be hosted by UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment.

The Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis will start its fall lecture series with a talk by Hilary Sample of MOS Architects. All events are in-person, free, and open to the public.

The Department of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley will host architects, designers and academics from studios and schools across the globe. All lectures are free and open to the public and will be livestreamed.

The Stuckeman School at Penn State is hosting a series of lectures to highlight the research being done within the school. The series will include speakers from the departments of architecture, graphic design, and landscape architecture. The first talk will be held on September 7.

Manijeh Verghese, Head of Public Engagement at the Architectural Association , will lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg on how to change the models around which society is organized. The lecture will take place on campus on September 1, and is free and open to the public.

Alberto Pottenghi, research associate in Architectural Design and Participation at the Technical University of Munich will lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg on August 18th. The lecture will take place on campus and is free and open to the public.

The Weitzman School at University of Pennsylvania is hosting leading architects, artists, historians, urbanists, and authors in its fall lecture series. The series, called “Landscape Now,” begins on September 8 with a lecture by landscape architect and MacArthur fellow Kate Orff.

On September 12 and 13, the Bartlett’s UCL Urban Laboratory and Institute for Global Prosperity will cohost  a conference on the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics, focusing especially on the social, economic, and physical effects on east London. The event is free and open to the public.

The British-Sri Lankan documentary filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam — a self-taught artist who was previously a media and human rights lawyer in London — will lecture on three recent films at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on July 28.

Henning Rasmuss, founder of Datascape Architects Africa and Crux Architects Africa, will give the next professional practice lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg, focusing on the series’ theme, “ways of working.” The lecture will take place on campus on July 19, and is free and open to the public.

A team of Penn State engineering and architecture students won third place in the Retrofit Housing Division of this year’s Solar Decathlon Design Challenge. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the competition attracted entries from 38 collegiate institutions.

Thinking of pursuing a post-graduate degree in architecture in 2023? The Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg — founded in 2015 to transform contemporary African architectural education — invites all who are interested students to join “Open Doors/Open Day,” an online discussion on Thursday June 9.

On Monday June 6, at 1–2 pm BST, the Bartlett’s Inclusive Spaces webinar will feature Mei-Yee Man Oram, Dr. Ammar Azzouz, Pippa Catterall, and Dr. Scott Allan Orr, exploring explore the relationship between queer communities and public spaces.

Anthony Orelowitz, director of the Johannesburg-based Paragon Architects, will lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg on the theme of “Ways of Working.” The lecture will take place on campus on May 24, and is free and open to the public.

On Wednesday May 11, at 1–2 pm BST, the Bartlett’s Inclusive Spaces webinar will feature Dr. Liza Griffin and Kay Pallaris, who’ll share insights into how park users derive well-being from green spaces, and the lived experiences of disadvantaged and minority groups during the pandemic. The Bartlett’s Maxwell Mutanda will be the host.

On Wednesday April 27, at 1–2 pm BST, the Bartlett’s Inclusive Spaces webinar will feature Provides Ng, Eli Joteva, Ya Nzi, and Artem Konevskikh, founders of Current, who will explore livestreaming culture, volumetric reconstruction, Artificial Intelligence, and personalization. The Bartlett’s Daniel Fitzpatrick will host the event.

Annacaterina Piras of the Rome-based interdisciplinary design practice LWCircus will lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg on the theme of “Creative Resilient Community.” The lecture will take place on campus on April 26, and is free and open to the public.

On April 1, Pratt School of Architecture will convene a hybrid symposium to explore intersectional inclusivity as a strategy for space making, inspired by women’s collectives and other forms of experimental placemaking.

On March 30 at 12 pm EDT, the Stuckeman School at Penn State will present a lecture by Hilary Sample, co-founder of the New York-based design studio MOS. Sample’s talk, “Houses, Schools, Studios, Housing …,” will be presented in-person and also livestreamed.

On March 24–25, the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, the Irish Architectural Archive, and the Museum of Literature of Ireland will host an in-person and online symposium that will celebrate and interrogate architecture’s many, multi-faceted narratives.

On March 30 at 6 pm EDT, the Stuckeman School at Penn State will present a lecture by Alexa Vaughn, a Deaf landscape architect and accessibility specialist whose work focuses on inclusive design for and with the disabled community. The talk is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed.

On March 24 at 12 pm EDT, the Buell Center at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation will present a virtual conversation between Alma Steingart and Benedict Clouette, focused on the complex physical and political processes of surveying — counting — land in the postwar United States. The event is free and open to the public.

On April 7–8, the Stuckeman School at Penn State will host a virtual symposium, “Proposals for Other Worlds: Architectures, Materials, Interactions.” Organized by associate professor Felecia Davis, the event is free and open to the public.

On March 23 Christopher Bardt, founding principal of 3SIX0 Architecture and a professor of architecture at RISD, will deliver an on-campus lecture, “Material and Mind,” at the Stuckeman School at Pennsylvania State University as part of its Spring 2022 lecture series.

Heinrich and Ilze Wolff, partners of the Cape Town studio Wolff Architects, will lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg on the theme of “Ways of Working.” The lecture will take place on campus on March 15, and is free and open to the public.

On March 3 and 4, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia will convene a virtual colloquium, Preservation in Chinas’s Future, to “critically examine how Chinese architects are engaging with preservation to imagine new forms of creativity and cultural relevance.”

On February 24–25, the Womxn in Design and Architecture group at Princeton School of Architecture will host the conference June Jordan: Pleasures of Perspectives. Speakers will explore how the late poet “used language to design a model for pedagogy and activism centered on ecology, care, and justice.”

On February 23, the Stuckeman School at Penn State will host architect, artist, and urbanist Marshall Brown, who will deliver a lecture sponsored by the Kossman Endowment. The event will be both live and streamed.

Starting February 22 and running through May 3, the Faculty of Architecture at University of Hong Kong is convening a series of virtual landscape architecture research seminars. The events are open to all.

On March 2, the Stuckeman School at Penn State will virtually host Robin Wall Kimmerer as part of the Bracken Fellowship + Lecture Series. In her talk, the acclaimed scientist and writer will examine three metaphors for types of landscape knowledge.

Thiresh Govender of UrbanWorks Architecture and Urbanism will lecture at the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg on the theme of “Insurgent Architectures.” The online lecture will take place on February 17.

The spring lecture series at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong is organized around the theme “desert island buildings.” The first lecture, on February 8, will be given by Go Hasegawa.

The Stuckeman School at Penn State is hosting leading architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and authors in its spring lecture series. Upcoming virtually, on February 9, is designer and spatial justice activist Liz Ogbu.

The Spring 2022 lecture series at   University of Minnesota School of Architecture is centered on the theme “existing to remain,” a phrase scattered in the notes of most construction plans. The first lecture, by Fete Nature Architecture, will be on February 7.

This spring the Faculty of Architecture at University of Hong Kong is convening a series of research seminars. The first, “The Floating Life: Boathouses, or Boats and Houses?,” will take place on February 10.

On February 4, the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto will convene a one-day symposium, “Sea Machines,” that will explore the connections between marine technology and the history and theory of architecture.

This semester’s lecture series at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia features Brigitte Shim, Aau Anastas, Sara Bronin, Zhu Pei, Jay Cephas, Andrea Fraser, Galia Solomonoff, Olalekan Jeyifous, and Dorte Mandrup.

SCI-Arc’s spring semester lecture series starts on February 9 with Ana María León, and continues with Mario Gooden, Erin Besler, Anupama Kundoo, Sekou Cooke, Liam Young, and Catherine Opie.

The UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design presents a lecture by Debjani Bhattacharyya, “The Fluid Histories of Property in Calcutta,” Thursday, Nov. 18, at 5:30 pm PT. Taking the example of Calcutta, the talk will explore how “land-making and land-reclamation” became “urbanization” in the nineteenth century. Free and open; livestream available here.

The second event in the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy Global Perspectives Seminar Series is Wednesday, Nov. 17. The event, focused on feminism and the built environment, will feature Suzanne Ewing, Yasminah Beebeejaun, and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. Free, open, online.

The HKU Division of Landscape Architecture presents a seminar series on “Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing,” with events running through Wednesday, Dec. 1. Free, open, virtual.

Places author Matthew Soules will discuss Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on Wednesday, 11/10. Free, open, virtual.

Princeton’s School of Architecture presents a lecture by Fred Bernstein, “Negative Energy and (Dis)Embodied Carbon,” on Thursday, Nov. 11. Free and open; livestream available.