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Spring 2025 School of Architecture / AIA Triangle Joint Lecture Series
Donghwan Moon, AIA
Assistant Professor of Architecture, NC State University
Partner, MMK+
Critical Zones Lecture
Monday, April 7 @ 6pm
Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall
Link to register in bio.
Donghwan Moon, AIA, is an architect, urbanist, and educator. His multidisciplinary design practice MMKPLUS focuses on creating contextual, timeless, and socially responsible places through extensive research on architecture, landscape, and infrastructure. He has worked on various projects globally, including city master plans, mixed-use developments, cultural buildings, and public parks. MMKPLUS won multiple awards, including the Public Architecture Award of Korea, the Korean Architecture Award, and the IFLA Landscape Architecture Award. His work and research have also been widely recognized through publications and exhibitions, including Architectural Record, Archdaily, and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Working as a director of Mtree—a non-profit design group—Moon has also been actively involved in public interest design for marginalized groups in developing countries. By investigating innovative technologies and collaborative design processes, his team has transformed communities into healthy, equitable, and sustainable places. Their work has been showcased at professional and academic venues worldwide.
Moon is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University College of Design, where he teaches graduate studios and seminars. Prior to joining NC State, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology and has served as a design critic in many universities in the US and South Korea. He holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University.
Spring 2025 School of Architecture / AIA Triangle Joint Lecture Series
Jaron Lubin
Senior Partner, Safdie Architects
Robert P. Burns Endowed Lecture
Monday, March 31 @ 6pm
SAS Hall Auditorium (beside the College of Design)
Parking in the SAS lot off of Boney Drive
Link to register in bio.
As Senior Partner at Safdie Architects, Jaron Lubin leads the design of some of the firm’s most ambitious urban-scale projects. His work reflects a commitment to architectural exploration, shaped by his experience with urban design and the integration of landscape and architecture in Singapore.
Over his career, Jaron has produced an extensive portfolio of technically rigorous competition entries, conceptual designs and realized projects, spanning an array of geographic contexts, scales and typologies. This work includes some of Safdie Architect’s most recognized achievements, including the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark, which redefined the skyscraper typology, and Jewel Changi Airport, an immersive civic and aviation experience that has set new standards for air transportation centers worldwide. His work also includes a continuous exploration of urban housing inspired by Safdie’s Habitat ’67, resulting in several realized projects integrating natural daylight, fresh air, and gardens; and many groundbreaking conceptual designs for a multitude of thought leaders such as Meta’s yet to be realized global headquarters.
Spring 2025 School of Architecture / AIA Triangle Joint Lecture Series
Salma Samar Damluji
Monday, March 24 @ noon on Zoom. Link to register in bio.
A British architect of Iraqi and Lebanese descent, Salma Samar Damluji graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture and The Royal College of Art London. She worked with Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy (1975-1976) and (1983 to1984). In 2008, she established with colleagues in Yemen the Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation in Mukalla, Hadramut and has been working there on earth construction and rehabilitation projects. See www.dawanarchitecturefoundation.org. Damluji has carried out extensive field work and research on architecture in the Arab region. She is author of over twelve titles including Zillij (1992), The Art of Moroccan Ceramics (1993) with John Hedgecoe, The Architecture of Oman (1998), The Architecture of the UAE (2006), and The Architecture of Yemen (2007). Her latest, The Other Architecture: Geometry, Earth and Vernacular (Leçon Inaugurale de l’École de Chaillot), was published in Paris in 2015 and short listed at the Académie d’Architecture for the Prix du Livre d’Architecture, in November 2015. She was elected Member of the Académie d’Architecture, Paris (2017). Her forthcoming publication is entitled Earth & Utopia, Laurence King Publishing, London (Fall 2018). Since 2013, she is Professor, Binladin Chair for Architecture in the Islamic World at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, the American University of Beirut.
Spring 2025 School of Architecture / AIA Triangle Joint Lecture Series
Monday, March 17 @ 6pm in Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall
Roy Decker, FAIA
Duvall Decker Architects
Harwell Hamilton Harris Endowed Lecture
Roy Decker, FAIA, expands the role of an architect in search of public good. Roy’s dedication to design excellence, education, and craft infuses the firm’s work with meaning. For the past three decades, Roy has led the firm to complete public projects of varying scales and types and to achieve significant design recognition. Roy is a design and critical thought leader, whether he is participating in an inner-city neighborhood meeting, serving on student reviews across the country, sharing his perspective in lectures and publications, or inspiring an individual in conversation. In all of these encounters, he exhibits an unwavering commitment to considering the consequences of architectural design work in the lives of others.
Roy holds a Master of Architecture degree from Kent State University. He has been on the faculty of Temple University School of Architecture and Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture. He was selected by the Architectural League of New York to present at the 2017 Emerging Voices lecture series. In 2023, his firm’s work was published in The State of Housing Design by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University where he was asked to speak at the book launch symposium at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 2024, The Architect’s Newspaper named Duvall Decker the Best Medium Firm in the Southeast as part of its Best of Practice Awards for the second consecutive year. Roy’s firm just released its debut book, Foundations, authored by Anne Marie and Roy, characterizing a list of propositions and foundations that were collected, developed, and tested over 25 years of practice.
Signed copies of Duvall Decker’s book, Foundations, will be available for purchase following the lecture.
Monday, March 3 @ 6pm in Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall
Link to register in bio.
Please join the College of Design for the spring 2025 architecture lecture series.
Yutaka Sho is a Principal and Co-Founder of GA Collaborative. Her research focuses on the roles of architecture and planning in development, humanitarian and post-calamity contexts. Yutaka has taught architectural design studios and theory at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Rwanda, and is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University.
Leighton Beaman is a GA Collaborative Principal and Co-Founder. His research and interests focus on affects and material technologies within design culture for environmental responsibility, and socially conscious design practices. Leighton Beaman is currently an Associate Professor of Practice at Cornell University. He has been named a MacDowell Fellow, an American Institute of Architects Emerging Practitioner, and a University of Virginia Teaching Fellow in Architecture.
General Architecture Collaborative is a nonprofit architecture and landscape architecture design firm focused on housing, healthcare, and educational projects that serve underrepresented, vulnerable and developing communities. Their goal is to bring together individuals and organizations interested in contributing to innovative, impactful and empowering design projects that build sustainable and socially equitable spaces, with communities who might benefit most from these projects. They help funders navigate unfamiliar building processes and cultures, and work to ensure a community’s needs and aspirations are part of a collaborative process and reflected in the spaces they create.
Spring 2025 School of Architecture & AIA Triangle Joint Lecture Series
CRITICAL ZONES
Critical Zones lectures will explore how emerging architects and scholars are addressing complex urban challenges such as poverty, inequality, and climate change through innovative design research and collaborative practices.
03.03 Yutaka Sho + Leighton Beaman: GA Collective
Critical Zones Lecture
03.17 Roy Decker, FAIA: Duvall Decker Architects
Harwell Hamilton Harris Lecture
03.24 Salma Samar Damluji
Tesar Lecture on Architecture and Culture
03.31 Jaron Lubin: Safdie Architects
Robert P. Burns Lecture
04.07 Donghwan Moon: MMK+ and NCSU
Critical Zones Lecture
04.16 Aziza Chaouni: Aziza Chaouni Projects
AIA Triangle Design Awards Chair Lecture
