Guest Lecture Archive

Architecture Guest Lecture Series listed by semester, from 2004 to present.

2012–13 Academic Year

Fall 2012

• Marlon Blackwell, Baird Visiting Professor, "Figures and Types"
• Andrew Higgott, "Camera Constructs: Photography's Remaking of Architecture"
• Inaqui Carnicero, Gensler Visiting Critic, "Not Just a Concrete Slab"
• Jinhee Park and John Hong, "SsD Works"
• Fiona Cousins, Glanzer-Curtis Family Lecture, "Two Degrees: Climate Change and the Built Environment"
• Todd Saunders, Edgar A. Tafel Lecture, "Architecture in Northern Landscapes"
• Richard Meier
• Ben Nicholson, "The World, Who Gets It? The Spirits Inside Land and Buildings"
• Joel Sanders, "Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture," Co-hosted with the Cornell Student Chapter of the ASLA. Funded in part by SAFC.
  
• Giancarlo Mazzanti, Edgar A. Tafel Lecture, "Mechanisms of Inclusion"
  

2011–12 Academic Year

Spring 2012

• Steve Christer and Margrét Haröardóttir, "Immaterial World"
  
• Richard Bonser, Mark Cruvellier, Dana Cupkova, Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda, Michael Hensel, Jonas Lundberg, John Marzluff, Jonathan Ochshorn, Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto, Kevin Pratt, Jenny Sabin, Birger Sevaldson, David Zeigler, Sustaining Sustainability Symposium, the Hans and Roger Strauch Symposium on Sustainable Design
• Bernard Cache, "Instruments of Thought"
  
• John Ochsendorf, "Maestros de Obras"
• Brad Cloepfil, "Occupation"
• CJ Lim, "London in Two-and-a-Half Dimensions"
• Mario Carpo, "Digital Styles"

Fall 2011

• Elena Manferdini, "Gulliver's Travels"
  
• Erik Stenberg, "Reconstruction of the Welfare State: Restructuring Swedish Modernist Housing"
• Maria Hurtado de Mendoza, "numbers"
  
• Martina Decker, "Material Compositions: Innovations in the Age of Nanotechnology"
• Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, "LOT-EK Objects and Operations"
• Bjarke Ingels, "Hedonistic Sustainability: How Can Sustainable Cities and Buildings Improve Our Quality of Life?"
• Iain Borden, "From Skateboards to Automobiles: Producing Social Space at Speed"
• George Baird, "A New Interpretation of the Architecture of Public Space"
• Barry Bergdoll, "The Activist Exhibition"
• Alexander Brodsky, "Little White Dog and Other Works"

2010–11 Academic Year

SPRING 2011

• Francois Roche, "Speculations, Fictions, Here and Now / Skyzoid Machine & Ecosophical Apparatuses"
  
• Despina Stratigakos, "Challenging the Urban Flaneur: Women Builders and the Experience of Modernity"
• Alice Kimm, "Multi"
  
• Dennis Crompton, "Roots – Everything is Very Ordinary"
• Susan Rodriguez, "Reciprocal Illumination"
• Dan Kaplan, "Climate, Culture, Myth: Explorations in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism"
• Lisa Iwamoto, "Synthetics"
• Maria Aiolova, "Terreform ONE: City, Ecology, Mobility"
• Beate Holmebakk, "Built/Unbuilt"
• Peter Cook, "Towards a Non-Solid Architecture"
• Christiane Sauer, William Braham, Dana Cupkova, John Haymaker, Brandon Hencey, Michael Pelken, Marco Poletto, and Kevin Pratt, Imminent Ecologies, the Hans and Roger Strauch Symposium on Sustainable Design
  

Fall 2010

• Ali Rahim, "Elegance"
  
• Jeffery Inaba, "Architecture and the Nice Economy"
• Michael Maltzan, "No More Play and Other Urban Speculations"
• David Erdman and Clover Lee, "Amass"
• Livia Corona, "Of People and Houses"
• Hakon Vigsnaes, "Home Stories"
• Neil Denari, "Precise Form for an Imprecise World"
• Jenny Sabin, "Matrix Architecture"
• Kevin Daly, "Fitness"
• Gisela Baurmann, Mario Carpo, Kurt Forester, Joerg Gleiter, Werner Goehner, William MacDonald, Mark Morris, Sebastien Marot, Joan Ockman, Hyungmin Pai, and Anthony Vidler, "Shaping Architects = Shaping Architecture," Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium
  

2009–10 Academic Year

SPRING 2010

• Lise Anne Couture, "Fastforward Rewind Play"
  
• Shayne O’Neil, "LOWLIFE – In Another Glass House"
• Laurie Hawkinson, "Moving Space"
• Toshiko Mori, "Paradigm Shift"
• Juergen Mayer H., "Patterns of Speculations"
• Winka Dubbeldam, "MEANINGFORM; A Performative Architecture"

Fall 2009

• Sulan Kolatan, "Co-Citation and Chimera Now"
  
• Craig Dykers, "Transdisciplinary Approach in the Public Realm"
• Jean Louis Cohen, "Architecture Drafted; Designing for World War II"
• Shigeru Ban, "Works and Humanitarian Activities"
• Michael Manfredi, "Surface/Subsurface"
• Hitoshi Abe, "Re-Mix"
• Mark Mack, "Housing vs. Architecture"
• Daniel Libeskind, "Counterpoint"
• Thom Mayne, "tC^2: The Continuity of Contradictions"
• Benjamin Ball, "Spaces Between the Hammer and the Mouse"

2008–09 Academic Year

SPRING 2009

• Peter Eisenman, "Memory and Memorial"
  
• Ken Yeang, "Green Design and Planning"
• Nader Tehrani, "Pedagogical Practices, Practical Pedagogies"
• Sofía Martínez von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo, "Selfsame"
• Alejandro Zaera-Polo, "Envelopes"

FALL 2008

• Alberto Iacovoni, "Playscape"
  
• David Lewis, "Opportunism and Play"
• Ben Katchor, "The Deep Tub and Other Stories"
• Alex Mergold, "Playing with Fire"
• Neil Spiller, "Visionary Architecture"
• Lebbeus Woods, "(Not) Under Construction"
• Jeffrey Kipnis, Karl Chu, Ben Langlands, Nikki Bell, Evan Douglis, Neri Oxman, Dagmar Richter, Neil Spiller and Lebbeus Woods, "Architecture of Disbelief" Symposium, Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium
  
• Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott, Modulations

2008–07 Academic Year

SPRING 2008

• Antón García-Abril, "Heavy Rock"
  
• Elena Manferdini, "Seduction"
  
• Tom Wiscombe, "Local Forces"
• Mark West, "Heavy Light: Fabric-Formed Concrete and the Prospect of a New Compression Architecture"
• Lynne Cooke, "Dia: Beacon: Making a Museum"
  
• John Zissovici, "Google Earth: Rethinking the City through its Image"
  
• Christopher Hight, "Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics"
• José Oubrerie, "Architecture Interruptus"
• J. Meejin Yoon, "Projects in Play"
  

Fall 2007

• Hitoshi Abe, "Architecture and Elephant"
  
• Chad Oppenheim, "In Search of Essence"
• Susan Buck-Morss, "Universal History"
• Jeffrey Krichmar, "Brain-Based Devices"
• Beatriz Colomina, "Unbreathed Air, 1956"
• Helene Furjan, "Synthetic Urbanisms"
• Simon Allford, "Constructing the Idea"
• Stanley Saitowitz, "Building San Francisco"
• Jeffrey Inaba, "Out of Place"

2006–07 Academic Year

SPRING 2007

• Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda, "Breathable Architecture"
  
• André Bideau, Werner Goehner and Arthur Ovaska, "O. M. Ungers at Cornell, 1969–1983"
• Evan Douglis, "Digital Alchemy"
• Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo, "[ecosistema urbano]"
• Jesse Reiser, "Current Work: From Outside-In to Inside-Out"
  
• Jeff Kipnis, "Critical Discrimination"
• Joan Ockman, Spyridon Papapetros, Stephen Phillips, David Leatherbarrow, Felicity Scott, Branden Hookway, Ed Keller, Helene Furjan, and Antoine Picon, "Temporalism Conference"
  

FALL 2006

• Michelle Howard, "constructconcept"
  
• Peter Carl, "Some Things are Sacred, Others are Not"
• Mark Lee, "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem"
• Carla Leitao, "Material Games"
• Bjarke Ingels, "Weird Tales of Architectural Evolution: Serendipity/Happy Accident as Architectural Strategy"
• Natalie Jeremijenko, "Architectures of Reciprocity and Natural Systems Engineering: Towards Solutions for Contemporary Problems in Architecture"
• Edgar Tafel, "My Years as an Architect: From Apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright through 55 Years in Private Practice"
• Marcel Meili, "Switzerland and Other Projects"
• Graciela Silvestri, "The Cultural Construction of South American Landscape"

2005–06 Academic Year

SPRING 2006

• Rodrigo Perez de Arce, "Southern Views Projects and Environments"
  
• Sheila Kennedy, "After Effects"
  
• Christian Kerez, "Projects on the Edge"
• Claudio Vekstein, "Public Works"
• Sanford Kwinter, "Beat Science"
• Servo (Marcelyn Gow & Chris Perry), "Architecture Information"
• Xavier Costa, "Displays of Architecture"
• Michelle Fornabai, "Soft Structures"

FALL 2005

• Valerio Olgiati, "Construction of Paspels"
  
• Neil Leach, "Camouflage"
• Mitsuhiko Kanada, "On Boundary In Design, Collaborative Design Approach"
• Sean Lally, "From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space"
• Sebastien Marot, "Palimpsestuous Ithaca, a Relative Manifesto"
• Hiromi Hosoya, "Recent Work"
• Thomas Hines, "The Other Hollywood: Modern Architecture and the Los Angeles Film Community"
• Thomas Hines, "A Continual Becoming: Rudolph Schindler’s Discordant Modernism"
• Ed Dimenberg, "Los Angeles Film Noir and the Architecture of History"
• Andreas & Ilka Ruby, "Hypercontext"
• Jeffrey Chusid, "Discovering a Modernist Life"
• Heather Roberge and Jason Payne, "Projects"
• Ciro Najle, "Material Regimes"

2004–05 Academic Year

SPRING 2005

• Christian de Portzamparc, "Pluriel et Singulier"
  
• Ian Miller, "Captivated by Empire: The Tokyo National Zoological Gardens and the Culture of Japanese Imperialism"
• Charles Waldheim, "Landscape, Urban Order, and Structural Change"
• Homa Farjadi, "Contingent Locations"
• Rudiger Lainer, "Order(s), Rule(s), Use(s)"
• Riken Yomamoto, "Urban Fusion"
• Francoise Fromonot, "The Decline and Fall of Urbanism in Paris:The Belly and the Architects"
• Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours, SJDLL, "The Depth of the Landscape"

FALL 2004

• Yung Ho Chang, "Farming Architecture"
  
• Rene Davids, "Courts and Fields"
• Tina di Carlo, "Curating Domesticity"
• Nasrine Seraji, "Housing: A Matter of Architecture"
• Akira Watanabe, "Five Materials & Projects"
• Riken Yamamoto, "Systems Architecture"
• Xaveer De Geyter, "Work in the Void"