On Migration: The Imperceptible Veil of Architecture — Arturo Ortiz Struck — Fall 2022 Lecture Recording
This lecture was held on 11/17/22 and was part of the Spitzer Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” Arturo Ortiz Struck is a visual artist and architect. Currently he is leading Taller Territorial de México, a research centre on architecture, art, and urbanism. He was member of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA) between 2007 and 2014. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture. Ortiz Struck won the National Journalism Award “Faces of Discrimination” for his… Read More »
On the occasion of a special event celebrating the acquisition of books and papers of the late Distinguished Prof. Marshall Berman, the school is pleased to share Berman’s Mumford Lecture from May 2, 2013, “Emerging from the Ruins.” In the annual Mumford Lecture convened by the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York, Marshall Berman spoke in the Great Hall. Introduction by Program Director Michael Sorkin Marshall Berman describes ruins as a process and shares vignettes from his early childhood to help contextualize the decades of planned destruction of… Read More »
This lecture was held on 11/10/22 and was part of the Spitzer Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” Loreta Castro Reguera, born in Mexico City in 1979 is architect and co-founder, with José Pablo Ambrosi, of Taller Capital. Their work focuses on the design of multifamily housing buildings and public spaces that work as retroactive infrastructures. The studio has received several national and international prices such as the Architectural League of New York 2021 Emerging Voices Award and the Honorary Mention in… Read More »
The Legal Geographies of the Agricultural Borderlands: Migrant Labor, Food, and Waterways — Miguel Rábago — Fall 2022 Lecture Recording
This lecture was held on 11/3/22 and was part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” Miguel Rábago Dorbecker is professor of law at CIDE Law School. Previously he was professor in the Law Department of Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and visiting professor at the Universidade Federal do Para in Brazil and the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. Most of his academic work is in the areas of legal theory, international law, and law and the humanities. Currently he is interested in… Read More »
Moving Beauty: Rethinking Architecture’s Forgotten Mandate — William Brinkman-Clark — Fall 2022 Lecture Recording
This lecture was held on 10/27/22 and was part of the Spitzer Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” William Brinkman-Clark is a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research focuses on the cosmetic relation between the aesthetic and the politic as it regards public space and Architecture. He has written various articles for Historia y Grafía, Cuadernos de Vivienda y Urbanismo, Theorein and Bitácora Arquitectura. In 2019 he published Ciudad:Tragedia… Read More »
This special lecture was held in person on 10/20/22 and was co-sponsored by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History as the keynote for the SACRPH 2022 Harlem Conference. Paul Farber is Co-founder and Director of Monument Lab. He is author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall and co-editor of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia. He also serves as senior research scholar at the Center for Public Art & Space at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. “After Permanence”… Read More »
The Natural and Built Environments of the U.S.-Mexico Border — C.J. Alvarez — Fall 2022 Lecture Recording
This lecture by C.J. Alvarez, “The Natural and Built Environments of the U.S.-Mexico Border,” was held in person on 10/6/22 and was part of the Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” C.J. Alvarez is the author of Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide, the first broad-sweeping history of building projects on the border. He is currently writing a book about the history of the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest and least-known desert in North America. He grew up in… Read More »
Finding and Operationalizing Common Ground in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region — Gabriel Díaz Montemayor — Fall 2022 Lecture Recording
Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, ASLA, is an Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Gabriel’s studio teaching is focused on multi-scalar and polyvalent research and service-learning projects for the Border Region between the United States and México. Gabriel keeps a part-time practice in urban design and landscape architecture as founding partner of LABor Studio, based in Chihuahua City, México. Gabriel’s research and teaching is also… Read More »
The Settler Colonial Exhibitionary Complex: Argentina, 1888 — Ana María León — Fall 2022 Lecture Recording
Ana María León‘s work traces how spatial practices and transnational networks of power and resistance shape the modernity and coloniality of the Americas. Her research and teaching foregrounds the agency of populations under struggle and the multiple forms of bias embedded in the built environment and its histories. León is author of Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires (University of Texas Press, 2021) and A Ruin in Reverse / Bones of the Nation (ARQ, 2021) and teaches at the Harvard GSD, where she is associate professor. “The Settler Colonial… Read More »
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