Fall 2010 Architecture Lecture Series

Pratt Manhattan Lecture Series 

All lectures take place in Room 213, Pratt Manhattan Campus unless noted (*).

Thursday, October 14, 6:30 PM
Bob Crane, Territory Manager, ATAS International
“Energy Efficient Building Envelopes”

Wednesday, November 3, 6:30 PM
Lawrence Feldman, Principal, GZA Consultants
“Building Sites as Remediation Issues”

Monday, November 15, 6:30 PM
Michael Ratner, Principal, MRA, Inc.
“Design and Construction for Retail”

Pratt Brooklyn Lecture Series

All lectures take place in the Higgins Hall Auditorium, Brooklyn Campus, unless otherwise noted (*).

Friday, October 22, 6:30 PM 
Evolutive Means
“On Adaptation and Selection in Architectural Design” ACADIA 2010 Exhibition in the Siegel Gallery
Introduction by conference and exhibition Chairs: Chandler Ahrens, Axel Schmitzberger,
Michael Wen Sen-Su, Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher, Shai Yeshayahu 

Roundtable Discussion with Exhibition Invitees: David Ruy/ Karel Klein • Architectonics / Winka Dubbeldam Morphosis • su11/ Ferda Kolatan and Erich Schoenberger • Paul Vanouse • Omar Khan • Mark Shepard • Mos • Clear/ Julia Czerniak and Mark Linder + McLain Clutter • Buro Happold • Andrew Saunders • Reiser + Umemoto

Thursday, October 28, 6 PM
Foreign Architects In Rome
Exhibition Opening in the Higgins Hall Lobby featuring the work of the Pratt Institute Rome Program 2001–2010, as exhibited at the Temple of Hadrian and curated by Frederick Biehle, Professor, Pratt Institute

Wednesday, November 10, 3 PM, *Memorial Hall*
Frank Gehry, Architect, Los Angeles
Conversation with the architect moderated by: Julie Iovine, Editor, The Architect’s Newspaper, with Yael Reiser, Author, Architecture and Beauty. 
SPONSORED BY THE STEEL INSTITUTE AND THE ORNAMENTAL METAL INSTITUTE

6 PM, Higgins Hall Auditorium
Will Alsop, Architect, London 
“Architecture and Beauty”

Thursday, November 11, 6 PM
Architecture and Beauty
Book Opening and Symposium with: Yael Reisner, Author and Moderator, Will Alsop, Architect, London; Sir Peter Cook, Architect, London; Hernan Diaz Alonzo, Architect, Los Angeles, Sultan Kolatan, Architect, New York, William MacDonald, Architect, New York, Gaetano Pesce, Architect, New York, Lebbeus Woods, Architect, New York

Monday, November 15, 6 PM
Factory Cities
Symposium to the Exhibition “Vertical Urban Factory” at the Skyscraper Museum, New York

Moderator: Emmanuel Picardo, Documentary Filmmaker, Nina Rappaport, Professor, Yale University, Andrew Ross, Professor, New York University

Comments

[M. Lauber]

Excellent line up. Wish I still lived in Brooklyn.