2022 Architecture Lectures

Jan. 24, 6 pm
Bryan Bell

Bryan Bell is an associate professor in the School of Architecture at NC State’s College of Design. In 1991, he founded the nonprofit organization Design Corps with the mission “to provide the benefits of design for the 98 percent without architects.” His current work includes research in the field of public interest design and the SEED Network, which Bell co-founded. Bell has published four books in this field, and he has organized 33 Public Interest Design Institutes and 18 Structures for Inclusion international conferences.

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Feb. 7, 6 pm
Virginia San Fratello

Virginia San Fratello is an educator, designer and creative technologist. She is the chair of the Department of Design at San Jose State University in Silicon Valley and an International Interior Design Association Educator of the Year recipient. She is a design activist, author and thought leader within the fields of additive manufacturing, architecture, interior and product design.

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Feb. 21, 6 pm
Julia Watson

Julia Watson is an Australian born lecturer and landscape designer living, teaching and practicing in New York. She teaches in the Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP. Watson previously taught at Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2013, she founded Studio Rede, a landscape design and conservation practice that works at the intersection of anthropology, ecology and innovation.

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Feb. 28, 6 pm
Guy Nordenson

Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor of architecture and structural engineering at Princeton University. He studied at MIT and the University of California at Berkeley and began his career as a draftsman in the joint Long Island City studio of R Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi in 1976. In 1987, he established the New York office of Ove Arup & Partners and was a director until 1997, when he began his independent practice.

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Mar. 7, 12:30 pm
Dahlia Nduom

Dahlia Nduom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Howard University. She is a licensed architect who has practiced and taught in the US and Ghana. These educational and professional experiences have informed her research interests which investigate the relationship between history, culture and perception and the impacts on the architecture of the African Diaspora and their role in shaping definitions of the home and what it means to dwell. She investigates cultural, economic, social, political and sustainable issues to understand the spatial implications and systems occurring in the home to begin to address design criteria for housing suited to the complexities of our time.

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Mar. 28, 8 pm
Eleena Jamil

Eleena Jamil is the founder of Eleena Jamil Architect. Jamil set up her eponymous studio in Kuala Lumpur in 2005, and it has since been growing steadily with an expanding portfolio of work that has won international accolades. Projects developed within the studio have been widely published in the international press. In 2018, EJA was shortlisted for Dezeen Architect of the Year.

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Apr. 4, 12 pm
Anupama Kundoo

Anupama Kundoo’s architecture centers around traditional craft traditions and construction techniques. Her buildings feature handmade materials assembled by local craftsmen, which she favours over mass-produced production methods.

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Apr. 6, 6:30 pm
Peter D. Cook

Peter D. Cook has an outstanding portfolio of design leadership and award-winning projects throughout the United States—particularly in the D.C. area—encompassing museums, memorials, embassies, libraries, cultural and learning centers, and mixed-used corporate and neighborhood master planning. Among Cook’s high-profile projects are the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Watha T. Daniel / Shaw Neighborhood Library, Embassy of South Africa, and Saint Elizabeths East Gateway Pavilion.

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