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PLOT Volume 12: Edge Faculty Editor: Michael King; Student Editors: Courtney Behrens, David Smucker, and Samuel Syrop Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, PLOT Volume 12 explores the theme of EDGE. This year’s shark-toothed faculty editor Michael King, along with our sharp and superfine editors Courtney Behrens, David Smucker, and Samuel Syrop, have assembled a selection of edges and edgy thinking, places perhaps farthest away from the center of things. The outer limit of PLOT, of course, is our cover, wrapped with Thomas Dolliver… Read More »
var element = $('ul.slides > li.slide'), length = element.length, current = 0, timeout = 3000; //element.slice(1).show(); function changeSlideFwd() { element.eq(current++).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } function changeSlideBack() { element.eq(current--).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } element.slice(1).hide(); Associate Professor Frank Melendez is the recipient of an international fellowship from the Italian… Read More »
Rendering of the upcoming pavilion at the Powell Garden in Brownsville. Image courtesy of Ali Höcek. var element = $('ul.slides > li.slide'), length = element.length, current = 0, timeout = 3000; //element.slice(1).show(); function changeSlideFwd() { element.eq(current++).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } function changeSlideBack() { element.eq(current--).fadeOut(300, function(){ if(current === length){ current = 0; } element.eq(current).fadeIn(300); }); } element.slice(1).hide(); The Powell… Read More »
Pressing Change in the Increasing Inflexible City – Emily Badger – Lewis Mumford Lecture Recording
This year’s Lewis Mumford Lecture was held on Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 6 pm. Emily Badger is a staff writer with The New York Times, covering cities and urban policy. She is particularly interested in housing, transportation, and inequality — and how they’re all connected. Prior to joining the Times in 2016, she wrote for The Washington Post and The Atlantic Cities (now CityLab). She grew up in Chicago, a city that has shaped a lot of her thinking about these topics, and today she lives in and writes from Washington, D.C. “Pressing Change in the Increasing Inflexible… Read More »
This special lecture was held on 03/23/23 and was co-sponsored by the UN Highlevel Water Conference in New York. Carola Hein is Professor History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology, Professor at Leiden and Erasmus University and UNESCO Chair Water, Ports and Historic Cities. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban and planning history and has tied historical analysis to contemporary development. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. Her recent… Read More »
Preserving Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Historic Sites: Dispelling and Disaggregating the Acronym and the Data — Michelle Magalong — Spring 2023 Lecture Recording
This lecture was held on 02/21/2023 and was part of the Spitzer Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation.” Michelle G. Magalong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Historic Preservation program at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture. Planning and Preservation, where she previously served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. She is affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies, Urban Studies and Planning, and American Studies. Dr. Magalong served as President for Asian and Pacific… Read More »
Translations: wǒmen de stories, cóng practice, pedagogy, dào organizing — Bz Zhang & christin hu ’16 — Spring 2023 Lecture Recording
This lecture was held on 02/16/2023 and was part of the Spitzer Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation.” Bz Zhang 张迪 is an architect, artist, organizer, and educator from Lenapehoking (纽约 New York), 安徽 Anhui, and 山东 Shandong, currently based in Tovaangar (洛杉矶 Los Angeles). They are a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U, a project manager with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, and a licensed architect in California. Their design and research practice wonders… Read More »
This lecture was held on 03/16/2023 and was part of the Spitzer Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation.” Leena Cho is an assistant professor and graduate program director in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia and co-director of Arctic Design Group and Kutonotuk. Her research focuses on material agencies and scientific sites in the Arctic to examine emerging forms of landscape and landscape practice in an age of climate change. Her design research has been funded by numerous… Read More »
This lecture was held on 02/09/2023 and was part of the Spitzer Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation.” Shiqiao Li is the Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, where he teaches history, theory, and design of architecture, and directs the Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment Program. He is the author of Understanding the Chinese City (2014), Architecture and Modernization (2009), and Power and Virtue (2006). With Esther Lorenz, he is the author of Typological… Read More »
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