Events & Workshops
The MArch program is regularly represented in the Sam Fox School’s annual Public Lecture Series, which brings nationally and internationally recognized architects, artists, designers, landscape architects, urban designers, historians, and critics to campus, promoting new ideas in practice, theory, and technology.
In addition, the MArch program often arranges program-specific lectures, workshops, symposia, and other opportunities as an extension of learning in the classroom.
Public Lecture Series
Yvonne Farrell, co-founder of Grafton Architects, visited with students while on campus to deliver the Ruth Kahn Lynford Lecture. She and Shelley McNamara won the 2020 Pritzker Prize.
In addition to their Public Lecture Series talk, architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien conducted studio crits.
Recent Public Lecture Series speakers in architecture include:
Sandra Barclay + Jean Pierre Crousse / Deborah Berke / Charles A. Birnbaum / Winka Dubbeldam / Yvonne Farrell / Charles E. Fleming / Edward R. Ford / Patrick Gmür / Toni L. Griffin / Walter Hood / Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon / Georgina Huljich / Margarita Jover / Robert Kahn / David Leven + Stella Betts / V. Mitch McEwen / Richard Murphy / Alfredo Payá / Katerina Rüedi Ray / Richard Sennett / Lola Sheppard / Marcelo Spina / Brett Steele / Nader Tehrani / Ai Weiwei / Amanda Williams + Giles Smith of Assemble / Tod Williams + Billie Tsien
View Recordings of Recent Lectures
Decoys & Depictions Symposium
Decoys & Depictions Symposium
In addition to two keynote lectures, panel sessions focused on the topics “Image Formats,” “Image Accumulations,” “Image Frames” and “Image Fictions.”
Decoys & Depictions Symposium
The symposium included three related exhibitions, including this one at the Des Lee Gallery exhibition featuring projects by more than 30 architects and artists.
In fall 2019, the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design presented Decoys & Depictions: Images of the Digital, a symposium exploring how digital images are constructed; the implications for how architects and artists operate; and the potential effects within social and political realms.
Organized by assistant professor Constance Vale, the symposium investigated the effects of digital imaging on contemporary practice through lectures, panel sessions, and exhibitions. The more than two dozen participants included Sam Fox School architecture and art faculty as well as visiting architects from across the country.