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Lectures on Architecture
February 13, 2017
Once again this semester, the NYIT School of Architecture & Design welcomes world-renowned architects and designers to its Manhattan-based lecture series, open to the NYIT community.
The first event, on February 15, is Kenneth Frampton: A Genealogy of Modern Architecture. Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Kenneth Frampton, will discuss his book, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analyses of Build Form. This reference work focuses on 20th-century architecture from 1924 through 2000 and looks at canonical modern buildings ranging from exhibition pavilions and private houses to office buildings and public institutions.
José Aragüez, will talk about his book, The Building, on March 29 at José Aragüez Lecture: The Building. Aragüez is adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. The book examines buildings and how they have been used as a means rather than an end within architectural theory and history for more than 50 years. The Building brings together architects and academics from around the world to discuss various key architectural structures in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Stan Allen, FAIA, George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University School of Architecture and director of the Princeton Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, will discuss Stan Allen: Four Projects, on April 12 at Stan Allen: Body of Work. The book documents projects that were discussed in Allen’s seminar while he was the Baumer Professor at the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture from 2012 through 2013, as well as his theory on Field Conditions.
On April 26, Peter Eisenman, FAIA, professor in practice at Yale School of Architecture, will discuss the role of mentoring by using material from the recent exhibition and book, By Other Means: Notes, Projects and Ephemera from the Miscellany of Peter Eisenman. He will be joined by Maria R. Perbellini, dean of the School of Architecture and Design (who worked with Eisenman in New York), and Matthew Ford, assistant professor, at Eisenman, Ford, and Perbellini: Mentoring by Other Means.
