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School of Architecture and Planning offers lecture series

Published: February 27, 2003

By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor

The School of Architecture and Planning has scheduled a lecture series for the spring that features an internationally known lineup of award-winning architects and designers.

The next lecture, on Wednesday, will be delivered by architect Lindy Roy, who established her own firm, ROY, in New York and is working on commercial, residential and exhibition projects in New York, Houston, London, Montreal, Botswana and Alaska.

Roy's talk, as well as all succeeding lectures in the series—unless specifically noted—will be held at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall on the UB South (Main Street) Campus. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Roy won the MOMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Competition in 2001 and the 16 Houses Competition, and was a finalist in the Times Capsule Competition for The New York Times. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will hold an exhibition of Roy's work in April.

Other speakers scheduled to appear at UB as part of the lecture series are:

  • Lars Lerup, March 19. Lerup, dean of the Rice School of Architecture, advocates an architecture that facilitates liberated movement and encourages the free use of space. Lerup is the 2003 Clarkson Visiting Chair in architecture at UB. (See in-depth article on Lerup in this issue of the Reporter)

  • Stefan Behnisch, April 2. Behnisch, a partner in Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner in Stuttgart, Germany, is one of the leading architects working in Europe on large projects devoted to the concept of "green" or sustainable architecture. His firm, established in its current form in 1989, evolved from its sister firm, Behnisch & Partner, which was founded in 1954 and has been highly influential in shaping the direction of contemporary architecture in post-war Germany. Current projects for Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner include the Genzyme Building in Cambridge, Mass.; the Center for Cell and Biomedical Research in Toronto, and the headquarters for Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover, Germany.

  • Gerrit Knaap, April 3. Professor of urban studies and planning, and director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland, Knaap is one of the leading authorities on "smart growth." He is the author or editor of several books, including "Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth." The 2003 Clarkson Visiting Chair in urban and regional planning at UB, Knaap received the Best of ACSP Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1998.

  • Slavoj Zizek, April 10. Zizek is a researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan, and the theory of Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture. A participant in more than 250 international philosophical, psychoanalytical and cultural-criticism symposiums, he is the founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis. Zizek's lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at UB.

  • Alex Krieger, April 11. An authority on the evolution of urban settlements, Krieger is professor in practice of urban design and chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He is founding principal of Chan Krieger & Associates. His firm's work has received prizes in eight national competitions, two Progressive Architecture Awards and 13 AIA awards. Krieger will lecture at 5:30 p.m. in 148 Diefendorf Hall, South Campus, to kick off Atelier, the School of Architecture and Planning's annual fund-raising exposition.

  • Edwin Schlossberg, April 23. Schlossberg is founder and principle designer of ESI Design, which he describes as a "multidisciplinary design company that specializes in interactive exhibit design, museum master-planning, public information systems and entertainment sites. ESI's work has ranged from designing exhibits for the Brooklyn Children's Museum and the John F. Kennedy Library to designing informational, interactive displays for the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island, the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center on the grounds of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and Hanna-Barbera Land for Paramount Parks.