From the links between the environment and architecture to the relationship between memory and architecture, the School of Architecture's 44th annual Monday Night Lecture Series promises a stellar lineup of renowned national and international architects discussing diverse themes.
The series will kick off at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, with a lecture by landscape architect Angela Danadjieva in Steinberg Auditorium. Danadjieva, an environmental designer with the San Francisco-based Danadjieva & Koenig Associates, will discuss "Environmental Response."
The series also will include keynote speakers for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Archtecture West Regional Conference "Memory and Architecture," which is being hosted by the architecture school Oct. 2-4. The keynote addresses, to be delivered in Steinberg Auditorium, are:
- Friday, Oct. 2 -- Architecture historian and theorist Jennifer Bloomer will lecture on "Pale Houses, Silent Shadows" at 1:45 p.m. Bloomer is a professor of architecture and director of the Post-professional Graduate Program and the Laboratory for Experimental Design at Iowa State University.
Diane Ghirardo, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, will speak on "Place and Identity in Los Angeles" at 5:30 p.m. Ghirardo is the author of several books, including "Architecture After Modernism."
- Saturday, Oct. 3 -- Jo Noero, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture and director of the Graduate Program in Architecture, will discuss "Myth and Memory" at 1:30 p.m.
Stanford Anderson, a professor of history and architecture and head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss "History and Memory" at 6:45 p.m.
The student-run series will continue with:
- Friday, Oct. 23 -- Carol Ross Barney, an architect at the Chicago-based Ross Barney & Jahkowski Inc., discussing her recent work at 4:30 p.m. in Room 116 Givens Hall. The lecture is co-sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
- Monday, Oct. 26 -- Neil M. Denari, a principal with the Los Angeles-based Cor-Tex Architecture and director of Southern California Institute of Architecture, on "Difference and Repetition" at 7 p.m.
- Thursday, Oct. 29 -- Will Bruder, an award-winning self-trained architect with Arizona-based Will Bruder Associates, discussing his recent work at 7 p.m. in Room 100 Brown Hall.
- Monday, Nov. 2 -- Esa Laaksonen, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture and editor-in-chief of the Finnish architectural review magazine, Arkkitehti, discussing "On Time and Architecture" at 7 p.m.
- Monday, Nov. 16 -- Beatriz Colomina, an architectural historian, theorist and associate professor at Princeton University, delivering the Harris Armstrong Endowed Lecture titled "The Gift: Reflections on the Work of Charles and Ray Eames" at 7 p.m.
- Thursday, Nov. 19 -- Patricia and John Patkau, of the Edmonton and Vancouver-based firm Patkau Architects, discussing their recent work at 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the architecture school and Student Union, the lectures are free and open to the public and held in Steinberg Auditorium unless otherwise noted. The lecture committee includes graduate students Monica Moore, Douglas Beck, Catherine Ho and Jenny Gossow. For more information, call 935-6200.
