Taubman College

Lecture Series

Recordings of a number of past lectures are available via iTunes U. Videos are posted to iTunes U usually within two weeks from the date of the lecture. Starting Fall 2010, lectures are published to Vimeo, with the archive of past recorded lectures being relocated there as well.

All lectures are free and open to the public, unless noted. All lectures will be held in the Art + Architecture Auditorium, 6:00 PM unless otherwise noted.

Taubman College is an AIA/CES Approved Provider that can register courses to deliver to architects for general learning credits. The denoted lectures (*) qualify.

Taubman College Lectures

January 9
Richard Norton
University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
"Knowing and Valuing both Private and Public: What Role for Public Policy, Design, and Planning in the 21st Century?"

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January 10
Peter Galison
Harvard University
"Wastelands and Wilderness"
January 23
Dan Wood
WORKac; Princeton University School of Architecture
"Nature-City"

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January 25
Alexandros Washburn
Department of City Planning, New York City
"IN PUBLIC urban designing nyc"

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January 30
Paul Lewis
LTL Architects; Princeton University School of Architecture
"Optimistic Opportunism"

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February 3
Antoine Picon
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
"What Can we Learn from Construction? Architecture, Technology and Culture"

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February 6
Will Bruder
Will Bruder + Partners

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Feburary 10
Stan Allen
Princeton University
Keynote to The Geologic Turn Symposium
"Architecture's New Terrain"

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February 17
Jonathan Barnett
University of Pennsylvania
"CITY DESIGN: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives"

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February 23
Kenny Cupers
University of Buffalo
"The Social Project of Architecture"

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March 5
Neil Denari
Principal, NMDA; Professor, UCLA/AUD
"Speculative Realism"

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March 12
Guy Nordenson
Guy Nordenson and Associates;Princeton University
"Patterns and Structure"

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March 14
Liza Fior
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March 15
Laura Wolf-Powers
The University of Pennsylvania School of Design
"Teaching Planners to Deal: The Pedagogical Value of a (Simulated) Development Negotiation"
March 19
Barbara Bestor
Bestor Architecture
"Pattern Recognition"

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March 23
Brian Leary
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
"Latent Cityspace and the Opportunity Therein"
Guido A. Binda Lecture

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March 23*
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
AZPA
Raoul Wallenberg Lecture
Stamps Auditorium at Walgreen Drama Center

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April 2
José Oubrerie
Ohio State University
"The Object is the Poetics"

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April 9
2011-2012 Fellows Lecture and Exhibition Opening
James Macgilivray
Kyle Reynolds
Etienne Turpin

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Symposia

January 27
MLK Symposium
"After Eight Mile: Race, Class, and Regional Transformation in Metro Detroit"
March 30*

For more on these events, visit taubmancollege.umich.edu/events

Event Supporters

Benard L. Maas Foundation, Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund, John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture Fund, Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Fund, Frances and Gilbert P. Schafer Visiting Professionals Fund, J. Robert Swanson Fund, Taubman College Enrichment Fund, Taubman College Lecture Fund