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Wednesday Forum

Wednesday, October 8th, Skender Lurasai will be speaking at noon on the topic “The production of value in design: one machine many projects, contexts, programs, scales" in FAC 461 (the slide room)

Wes Piermarini, a UMass architecture alum/student and member of the 2008  US Olympic team (rowing), will give a talk on " The Architecture of Beijing" on Wednesday, September 10, 12:30-1:30 in the Fine Arts Center slide room (FAC 463).  Please join us for this special event by this exceptional member of our community.

September 17, Wednesday Forum, 4th floor slide room, 12 noon to 1pm  Dave Damery, “Green Building: A Mechanism for Sustainability”

September 22 Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses in Houston (http://www.projectrowhouses.org/), at Amherst College, Pruyne Lecture Hall in Fayerweather Hall, 4 pm

Further Information:

Contact Max Page (mpage@art.umass.edu) or Joseph Krupczynski (josephk@art.umass.edu)

Directions to Lecture Locations and Parking:

Follow these links:

Amherst College
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College
UMass Amherst

AIA Continuing Education Credits:

Contact: Marty Smith (mbsmith@facil.umass.edu)

“Open Door” Lunchtime Lectures - Spring Only

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The "Open Door" lecture series is a lunchtime series for local architects and University of Massachusetts Amherst Architecture + Design students. Meeting time is Wednesdays 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm in the 3rd Floor Conference Room302-303, Gordon Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst  418 N Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA

Students will receive 1 credit for attending all sessions. Both graduate students and undergraduate students are encouraged to attend this informative seminar series. Presenters will be AIA CEU providers unless noted with an asterisk in which case architects may self-report to obtain learning units. The sessions will be 1 hour and 1 CEU will be provided for attending architects.

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