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SCI-Arc is proud to continue its commitment to maintaining a robust platform for interdisciplinary speakers with its fall 2020 series of lectures. SCI-Arc’s fall 2020 public programs will feature virtual presentations from a wide range of cultural practitioners, including artist Yinka Ilori, architect and designer Frida Escobedo, scholar and critic Charles Davis II, and writer and architect Andrés Jaque.
SCI-Arc’s annual Selected Thesis exhibition, highlighting the most compelling graduate thesis projects of the year, will open to the public via SCI-Arc Channel on October 12.
Admission and access to SCI-Arc-hosted virtual public events and exhibitions are always free and open to the public.
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Public Lectures + Exhibitions
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09.16.20 Lecture: Elsie Owusu OBE
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285778
Elsie Owusu OBE is an architect, artist, and urban designer. Her projects include the UK Supreme Court and London’s Green Park Station. She was runner-up for the RIBA Presidency in 2018, being re-elected to RIBA National Council. She is a director of JustGhana, which promotes inward investment and good governance in Ghana with a special focus on education for children and young people through the creative industries. In 2003, she was honored by the Queen for services to architecture as Founding Chair of the Society of Black Architects. More info
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09.23.20 Lecture: Ruha Benjamin
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6pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285788
Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press). She has studied the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine for over fifteen years and speaks widely on issues of innovation, equity, health, and justice in the US and globally. She is also a Faculty Associate in the Center for Information Technology Policy; Program on History of Science; Center for Health and Wellbeing; Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies; Department of Sociology; and serves on the Executive Committees for the Program in Global Health and Health Policy and Center for Digital Humanities. Ruha is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2017 President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. More info
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09.30.20 Lecture: Charles L. Davis II
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285905
Charles L. Davis II is a designer, architectural historian, and cultural critic at the School of Architecture and Planning at SUNY Buffalo, where he teaches design studios and courses in history and theory. He received a PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Arch from SUNY Buffalo. His academic research examines the racial discourses of the modern architectural style debates and its long-term effects on the cultural biases of contemporary practice. His lecture will examine the influence of settler colonial politics on the historical formation of American architecture through the work of two canonical architects: the Irish-American Louis Sullivan and the Welsh-American Frank Lloyd Wright.
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10.12.20 Exhibition: Selected Thesis 2020
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SCI-Arc’s 2020 Graduate Thesis is held virtually, culminating in a lively, immersive online Thesis Weekend on September 10-12, 2020. As the school’s largest annual event, Graduate Thesis Weekend allows graduating M.Arch 1 and 2 students an invaluable platform to articulate, propose, and defend their work to the SCI-Arc community and beyond. This year, the Selected Thesis exhibition will take the form of a documentary film. With a juried exhibition of exceptional thesis projects by 2020 graduates and featuring the 2020 Gehry Prize-winning thesis project, the Selected Thesis exhibition will be viewable online at channel.sciarc.edu as of October 12. More info
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10.14.20 Lecture: Andrés Jaque
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6pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285913
Andrés Jaque is an architect, writer, and curator internationally known as one of the initiators of interscalar and transmedium approaches to urban and territorial studies. His work explores architecture as the entanglement of life, bodies, technologies, and environments. He holds a PhD from UPM and has been a Heinrich Tessenow Stipendiat (Alfred Toepfer Stiftung FVS) and Graham Foundation grantee. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, a New York/Madrid-based agency working at the intersection of research, critical environmental practices, and design. More info
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10.21.20 Lecture: Frida Escobedo
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285917
Frida Escobedo is an architect and designer based in Mexico City. Her work focuses largely on the reactivation of urban spaces that are considered to be residual or forgotten, through projects that range from housing and community centers, to hotels, galleries, and public art installations. In addition to her practice, Escobedo has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the recipient of the 2016 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award, the 2017 Architectural League Emerging Voices Award, and in 2018 was selected to design the 18th Serpentine Summer Pavilion in London. During spring 2019 she was a visiting professor at Rice University and is currently teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design. More info
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10.28.20 Conversation: Graham Harman + Sylvia Lavin
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285921
Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SCI-Arc. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Ontology (2018), Speculative Realism (2018), Art and Objects (2020), and Is There an Object-Oriented Architecture? (2020, ed. Joseph Bedford). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Open Philosophy, editor of the Speculative Realism series at Edinburgh University Press, and co-editor (with Bruno Latour) of the New Metaphysics series at Open Humanities Press.
Sylvia Lavin is head of the PhD in Architecture program and Professor of Architectural History and Theory at UCLA and co-director of Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton. She received her PhD from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University in 1990 after having received fellowships from the Getty Center, the Kress Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Prior to her appointment at Princeton, Lavin was a Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006 and the Director of the Critical Studies MA and PhD program from 2007 to 2017.
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11.04.20 Lecture: Jack Halberstam
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285923
Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, forthcoming in October 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. More info
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11.11.20 Lecture: Trevor McFedries
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285989
Trevor McFedries is the founder of the technology startup Brud and the creator of virtual pop star Miquela, a Gen Z icon with millions of fans around the world. Since its inception in Los Angeles 2017, Brud has raised funds from venture firms Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, and SV Angel, amongst others. Today Miquela has more than 5M followers and 50M+ streams across platforms. She recently signed with CAA as the agency’s first virtual client and performed at Lollapalooza 2020. She has modeled for Prada, Calvin Klein, Burberry, and more, interviewed artists at Coachella, graced the covers of Wired, V Magazine, L’Officiel, 032C, Wonderland, ES Magazine, and Highsnobiety, and was named one of Time's 25 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2018. More info
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11.18.20 Lecture: Dominic and Christopher Leong
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285991
Christopher Leong received his Master of Architecture from Princeton University and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley. As partner at Leong Leong, he has overseen the direction of multiple mixed-use projects including the Anita May Rosenstein Campus of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the AAFE Center for Community and Entrepreneurship, and the City View Garage. Dominic Leong received his Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, graduating with Honors, and his Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has lived and worked in Shanghai, Paris, and New York. In 2007, he was awarded the Architecture League Prize by The Architectural League of New York. Dominic has received recognition for his work that includes a Graham Foundation Grant for his interest in the role of research in contemporary architectural education and practice. More info
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12.02.20 Lecture: Yinka Ilori
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7pm PST
Watch live: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285994
Yinka Ilori is a London based multidisciplinary artist who specializes in fusing his British and Nigerian heritage to tell new stories in contemporary design. He began his practice in 2011 by upcycling vintage furniture, inspired by the traditional Nigerian parables and West African fabrics that surrounded him as a child. Yinka Ilori Studio was established in 2017 following a successful pitch to transform the Thessaly Road Bridge. The studio now consists of a team of color-obsessed architects and designers, with the expertise and capacity to take on large-scale architectural and interior design projects. The studio continues to experiment with the relationship between function and form, with an output that sits between traditional divisions of art and design. More info
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12.4 - 12.5.20 Symposium: A Queer Query
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Watch live Day 1: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285997
Watch live Day 2: https://livestream.com/sciarc/events/9285998
Queer culture reflects a deep love for uplifting the marginalized, for standing up for visibility, and for making its own space. It’s inclusive and particular, genre-defying, painful yet hopeful. During A Queer Query, a series of discussions and presentations by architects and theorists will search out the intersections of queerness and architecture today. More info
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