Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley: Architecture, Advocacy, and the 2015 Earthquake — FULL info here
Speaker: Erich Theophile
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, and Principal, H. Theophile
This event is in-person only; it will be recorded and made available on UVA School of Architecture’s Youtube Channel.
Right to Heal: Human Rights, Reparations, and the Future of Memorials — FULL info here
Speaker: Esra Ackan
Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory and Resident Director in the Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University
What is the role of the designed environment both in the opportunistic responses to conflicts and disasters, and in the much-needed debates of accountability, reckoning with the past, and transitional justice? In this lecture, scholar and author Esra Akcan explores the concept of right to heal and architecture’s role within, by defining a healing space as one where political and ecological harms are confronted, and accountability and reparations are instituted. She raises the question of harm and healing after human rights violations in the past, and the right-to-truth.
This event is in-person only; it will be recorded and made available on UVA School of Architecture’s Youtube Channel.
Materials as a Design Tool: A Travel Through Innovative Circular Design Philosophy & Smart Sustainable Building Practices — FULL info here
Speaker: Hanaa Dahy
Associate Professor, Sustainable Design within Innovation & Technology, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, and Director, BioMat + BioMat@Copenhagen
‘Materials as a Design Tool’ is the design philosophy of architect and engineer Hanaa Dahy, whose practice is based on giving alternative renewable resources a second chance and a vital role in the design process. Focused on locally available and sustainable materials, Hanaa Dahy and her BioMat research teams in Stuttgart and Copenhagen take an innovative and carbon-reducing approach to construction by using natural, fiber-based biocomposites and seasonal plant-based materials like straw, flax, and hemp. BioMat’s wide-ranging work includes shell constructions, bridges, furniture, building components, multi-functional integrated sandwich panels, and adaptive façade systems that integrate robotic fabrication, additive manufacturing, and automation technologies.
In this lecture, Dahy will highlight the novel work of BioMat and discuss how smart materials, diverse manufacturing technologies, and the rediscovery of local crafts are providing new ways of understanding the future of sustainable architecture.
Select works by BioMat will be on view in Campbell Hall’s Elmaleh Gallery from January 18–February 3, 2023.
This event is in-person only; it will be recorded and made available on UVA School of Architecture’s Youtube Channel.
Brent Leggs is the executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Envisioned as a social movement for justice, equity, and reconciliation, the Action Fund promotes the role of cultural preservation in telling the nation’s full history, and empowers activists, entrepreneurs, artists, and civic leaders to advocate on behalf of African American historic places.
A Harvard University Loeb Fellow and author of Preserving African American Historic Places, which is considered the “seminal publication on preserving African American historic sites” by the Smithsonian Institution, Brent is a national leader in the U.S. preservation movement and the 2018 recipient of the Robert G. Stanton National Preservation Award. He is a Senior Advisor and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s graduate program in Historic Preservation.
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Marcelo Faiden is the co-founder (with Sebastián Adamo) of Adamo-Faiden Architects based in Bueno Aires, Argentina. Their works have been widely exhibited and published, including at the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial (2019), at the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt (2015), at the LIGA gallery in Mexico City (2012) and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2010), among others. Four monographic publications compiled the work of Adamo-Faiden, the latest of which was published by TC Cuadernos in Spain (The Contemporary Constructor, Valencia, 2018).
Marcello Faiden was a professor at FADU-UBA (Buenos Aires, 2005-2010/2016-2018) and Di Tella University (Buenos Aires, 2012-2015). He has taught and lectured at numerous institutions including the Canadian Center for Architecture, Princeton School of Architecture, the Polytechnic School of Architecture of Madrid, the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Laussanne, the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, among others.
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UVA’s Projecting Fellows brings together the 2019-2020 class of fellows from American architecture schools to explore a cross section of emerging interests in the discipline and the vehicle of the fellowship project. Each year, several architecture schools nationwide name fellows to join their programs and develop an intensive research or teaching project during a short-term appointment. With the fellowship comes some combination of project support, cross-pollination between research and teaching, and a platform with which to present and exhibit the work. Commonly selected via national call for proposals, fellowship projects are dually indicative of emerging interests in academia and evolving institutional agendas.
While each school supports the development and dissemination of fellowship work, no comprehensive venue for dialogue between fellows has taken shape. Leveraging the new normal of virtual engagement, Projecting Fellows creates a discursive platform, inviting fellows to share their work and to address emergent directions in architectural discourse. The paradigm shifts of 2020 make such dialogue across geographic boundaries and institutional lines more critical than ever. Projecting Fellows will address the meta project of the architectural fellowship – its role, its curation, and its consequences in shaping the discipline.
The series was organized by Assistant Professors Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann and will be hosted virtually over five evenings by the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Wk. 5 Fellows:
Mentatalla Ahmed Agha, Design for Spatial Justice Fellow, University of Oregon, 2019-20
Matīss Groskaufmanis, Walter B. Sanders Fellow, University of Michigan, 2019-20
Eduardo Mediero, Fishman Fellow, University of Michigan, 2019-20
Amelyn Ng, Wortham Fellow, Rice University, 2019-21
Hans Tursack, Pietro Belluschi Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018-21
Moderators: Erin Besler + Sekou Cooke
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UVA’s Projecting Fellows brings together the 2019-2020 class of fellows from American architecture schools to explore a cross section of emerging interests in the discipline and the vehicle of the fellowship project. Each year, several architecture schools nationwide name fellows to join their programs and develop an intensive research or teaching project during a short-term appointment. With the fellowship comes some combination of project support, cross-pollination between research and teaching, and a platform with which to present and exhibit the work. Commonly selected via national call for proposals, fellowship projects are dually indicative of emerging interests in academia and evolving institutional agendas.
While each school supports the development and dissemination of fellowship work, no comprehensive venue for dialogue between fellows has taken shape. Leveraging the new normal of virtual engagement, Projecting Fellows creates a discursive platform, inviting fellows to share their work and to address emergent directions in architectural discourse. The paradigm shifts of 2020 make such dialogue across geographic boundaries and institutional lines more critical than ever. Projecting Fellows will address the meta project of the architectural fellowship – its role, its curation, and its consequences in shaping the discipline.
The series was organized by Assistant Profs. Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann and will be hosted virtually over five evenings by the Uni. of Virginia School of Architecture.
Wk 3 Fellows:
Jorge Orozco Gonzalez, Architectural Design Fellow, Princeton Uni. 2018-2021
Karen Kubey, Design for Spatial Justice Fellow, Uni. of Oregon, 2019-20
Piergianna Mazzocca, Emerging Scholar in Design, Uni. of Texas at Austin, 2019-21
Young-Tack Oh, Michigan Mellon Design Fellow on Egalitarianism and the Metropolis, Uni. of Michigan, 2019-21
Ryan Roark, Ventulett NEXT Generation Teaching Fellow, Georgia Tech, 2019-21
Moderators: Sylvia Lavin + Jason Young
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