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Five College Lecture Series - Spring 2008

Friday, April 25, 2008 / 9:00AM-5:00PM Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union Building, UMass, Amherst

Symposium:  Art in the Public Sphere:  Singular Works,                          Plural Possibilities

This daylong symposium will bring together architects, artists, curators, scholars, and landscape architects to examine the complexities and challenges of producing work in and about the public domain.

Panelist include: Vito Acconci, Artist/Architect, NYC; Anne Pasternak, President/Director of Creative Time, NYC; Rick Lowe. Artist, Founder, Project Row House, Houston; George Trakas, Artist, Amherst/NYC.

For registration and additional information go to:

www.umass.edu/fac/universitygallery

Sponsored by:  University Gallery, UMass Architecture+Design Program, UMass Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, UMass Alumni Association, UMass Arts Council, SACEF, NEFA, Conference Center and the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 / 6:00 PM > Isenberg School of Management, Room 137, UMass Amherst

Jason Chandler AIA

“Reconciling Context: Buildings and Projects"

Jason R. Chandler, A.I.A. is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Florida International University and is principal of Chandler and Associates, Architecture P. A.  Jason received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and his Master of Architecture from Harvard University.
Sponsored by: UMass Architecture + Design Program

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 / 6:00 PM >Isenberg School of Management,
Room 137, UMass, Amherst

Skender Laurasi

"Geological Materialities, Vectorial Fields, Ideogramming"

Skender Luarasi is a practicing architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Architecture +Design Program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.  He has worked as a designer for dEcoi architects/MIT Digital Design Group, Kennedy & Violich Architects Ltd and Finegold + Alexander Associates, Inc. His practice can be characterized as a meshwork of design and research that focuses on the applied theories of visualization technologies and ideogrammatic culture in design.

Sponsored by:  UMass Architecture+Design Program

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

Art 591  

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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