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On March 22, the Stuckeman School at Penn State will welcome Peruvian architect, landscape architect, and public health researcher Coco Alarcon, who will give a lecture and open an exhibition titled “Happy Landscapes: Wellbeing by Design,” on how landscapes can address happiness and mental health. The public lecture will take place on campus and be shared via Zoom.

On March 17, the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg will sponsor a symposium in coordination with the launch of the new book Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South: Perpetrating Pedagogies for Spatial Production, co-edited by Harriet Harriss, Ashraf Salama, and Ane Gonzalez Lara. The on-campus event is fee and open to the public, and will also be livestreamed,

On March 16, the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg will welcome scholar, educator, and architect Dr. Harriet Harriss, who will speak on “Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South: Perpetrating Pedagogies for Spatial Production.” The campus event is free and open to the public.

This Department of Architecture at University of Hong Kong will host a series of lectures this month: on March 7, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, on “Weaponized Craft”; on March 13, Yung Ho Chang, on “Form, Content, and Total Design”; and on March 22, Boonserm Premthada, on “Non-Human Centered Architecture.” Videos of each will be available on the school’s website the day after each lecture.

On March 15, the Stuckeman School at Penn State will welcome Spanish architect and historian Juan José Lahuerta for a lecture, “Triumphant Modernity: Some Images of Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture in the Popular Media.” The lecture is free and open to the public, and will also be livestreamed via Zoom.

On the evening of February 23, the Pratt Institute will host a conversation among African-American professionals, architects, and developers about the discriminatory housing policies that have devastated the Black community. The event is free and open to all.

The Stuckeman School at Penn State will host Kristina Hill, associate professor of landscape architecture at University of California, Berkeley, for a talk on “Underground Landscapes.” The lecture will take place on February 22 on campus and will be livestreamed via Zoom.

On February 22, Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse will give a hybrid lecture at the School of Architecture at University of Miami. Their talk, “Embracing the Immeasurable,” will track how the Andes journey of Alexander Von Humboldt helped them rethink their approach to architecture. The lecture will take place on campus and be livestreamed via Zoom.

The Spring Discussion Series at University of Hong Kong will focus on the Kau Yi Chau Artificial Island, and will host speakers Stephanie Chan, Pakin Cheung, Jaime Pong, Amy Wu, and William Yeung. The series will take place from February 17 to March 3, on campus at the Department of Architecture.

As part of its spring 2023 public lecture series, the Faculty of Architecture at University of Hong Kong will host Michele Acuto, a professor at University of Melbourne and director of its Centre for Cities. The lecture will take place on campus on February 21, and will explore the “global urban imagination” and “networking cities, connecting urban sciences.”

The spring 2023 lecture series at the Stuckeman School at Penn State will host Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, co-founding principals of the architecture firm Flores & Prats, for a virtual lecture on February 15.  The lecture, “The Right to Inherit,” will explore the intersection of prestige, heritage, and timelessness with architecture.

The “Dreadlock Series,” a project by faculty and students of Penn State Stuckeman’s Computational Textiles Lab, or SOFTLAB, is on exhibit this month at University of Houston as part of the show “Hair Salon: Black Hair as Architecture.” SOFTLAB is a research center led by Stuckeman professor of architecture Felecia Davis.

On February 8, the Stuckeman School at Pennsylvania State University will host Mollie Claypool and Gilles Retsin, co-founders of the UK-based Automated Architecture Ltd., for a virtual lecture. Claypool and Retsin, who both teach at The Bartlett, will discuss their work on robotics, automation, and affordable housing. The lecture will be accessible to all via Zoom.

This semester the School of Architecture at University of Miami is again hosting its popular Spring Term Salons on Thursday evenings throughout February. The salons take place outdoors on the school’s courtyard; events are open to public, and refreshments will be served

The Spring Lecture Series at the Stuckeman School will start on January 18 with a virtual talk by landscape architecture writer and educator Claire Latané, whose talk will focus on “a collaborative for designing with communities.” All lectures in the hybrid series are free and open to the public.

On December 1, the Penn State Center for Energy Law and Policy and the Hamer Center for Community Design at the Stuckeman School are hosting a webinar to address the challenges that low-income people face in accessing energy efficiency programs. Lisa Iulo, director of the Hamer Center and associate professor of architecture, will moderate the event.

The Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg will hold its summer show, “Move,” on November 24. The presentation of studio work will explore the richness and complexity surrounding the role of “making” in architectural production; it will also mark the school’s move into a new home.

To celebrate its half-century mark, the Brown University Urban Studies Program is convening a series of conversations, “What Is the Urban Now?” A video of the latest, anthropologist Aihwa Ong on “Experiment and Performance in the Global Asian City,” is now live on the program website.

On November 9, Penn State’s Stuckeman School will host a lecture by Mae-ling Lokko, founder of Willow Technologies Ltd. in Accra, Ghana. The talk will be live streamed.

The Southern California Institute of Architecture will host a lecture by designer Deborah Garcia, “Landscapes of Rage,” on November 9.

Penn State’s Stuckeman School will host a lecture by Kyuha Shim, professor of convergence design at the Korea National University of the Arts, on November 2. The event will be live streamed.

The Stuckeman School at Penn State University will host a two-day conference on embodied carbon and its effects on the planetary environment. The conference will take place online from November 28-29.

The Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas will host a lecture by architect Germane Barnes, director of the Community Housing & Identity Lab at University of Miami, on October 24.

On October 19, the Stuckeman School at Penn State University will host a lecture, “Unwalling Citizenship,” by architects Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman.  The event will be live streamed.

On October 11, the Urban Studies program at Brown University will host a lecture by UC Berkeley professor Aihwa Ong: “Experiment and Performance in the Global Asian City.” The event will be live streamed.

The University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture will present “The Anthropocene  Museum,” a talk by Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja of the Nairobi-based research collective cave_bureau. The talk take place on October 11 at the FADA Auditorium.

On October 8, the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture will host a series of talks by HKU alumni. The program will include presentations from the 2022 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism.

On October 7, the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture will host Ruo Jia, Anthony Ko, Rafael Luna, Markus Wernli, and Mark Breeze for a panel discussion. The event will be live streamed.

On October 12, the University of Oregon College of Design will host a panel discussion on radical feminist communities in the Pacific Northwest, featuring Sasha Archibald, Linda Long, Carol Newhouse, Carmen Winant, and Rae Root. The event will be live streamed.

Charles Cross, the director of landscape and urban design at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, will speak about the history of the center at Penn State’s Stuckeman School on October 12. The lecture will be live streamed.

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.