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School of Architecture
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The School of Architecture provides lectures each year on topics of interest to students. The lectures are free and open to the public. All lectures begin at 7:00 pm in Browne Auditorium (Parkinson 124) on the SIUC campus, except where noted otherwise. Licensed architects who attend may count the hours toward continuing education requirements in Illinois through self-reporting. Most lectures are not for health safety welfare (HSW) credit.
Lectures - Spring 2008
February 11
W. Gene Corley, CTLGroup. Dr. Corley's topic is a forensic engineering perspective of the Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks. Dr. Corley is the 2006 recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Award for Design. Dr. Corley served as head of the investigative team for the World Trade Center disaster. In 2002, he testified before the US House of Representatives presenting the team's findings. He has authored more than 150 technical papers and books.
February 25
Blaine Brownell, transstudio. Topic: Transmaterials - Innovative materials for design and construction. Blaine Brownell served as editor for "Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine Our Physical Environment" published by Princeton Architectural Press.
April 7
Annette Baldwin as Coco Chanel presents a historical characterization as one of the 20th century's most influential designers and one of the most influential women of all time.
"Coco came alive...the
audience loved every moment."
-Leonard Cobey, Friends of the Highland Park Public Library
April 14
Thomas Kerwin, FAIA, SOM. Topic: Chicago 2016 Olympics master plan. Thomas Kerwin is a managing partner in the Chicago office of Skimore Owings & Merrill LLP. As a specialist in the management of large-scale urban, he is dedicated to successfully directing complex and innovative projects both globally and locally. Mr. Kerwin oversees SOM's involvement in the 2016 bid by the city of Chicago to host the Olympic games.
Lectures – Fall 2007
September 28 - 29
Aesthesia: The UN Ocular Effect.
The symposium was organized by Assistant Professor Shai Yeshayahu. Details of the two-day event are provided in PDF format using this link: Aesthesia: The UN Ocular Effect.
October 15
Eric Phillips, NBBJ Architects: Urban Practices: The Practice of City Building.
At the turn of the millennium, it is without a doubt that our cities, now embedded deeply within the global economy, must find new and innovative ways to restructure and sustain themselves. The last fifty years has seen urban landscapes throughout the world drastically manipulated by the rapid growth of our cities. The architectural profession has remained by-and-large disconnected from the "living system" that has created this massive change. Meanwhile, issues of globalizing economies, politics, shifting demographics and consumer analysis have qualitatively transformed the physical and spatial relationships of the urban environments throughout the work. The result of architecture’s autonomy is to have had little part in the overwhelming transformation of city life predominately envisioned by city governments, community activists and real estate developers.
In response to these issues, the NBBJ Urban Environment Studio has created a strategy for developing our work that allows the amorphous and unquantifiable trends of global capital, social interest and real estate development to become integral part of our design discourse. The vision focuses on the processes of city development as an evolving partnership and long term investment between design professionals, political systems, and the business community, thus exemplifying the importance of the fluid acceleration of self-regulating economies and real estate development.