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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.

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.