News Release

Architect M. David Lee, FAIA, speaks at UDM's School of Architecture

University of Detroit Mercy's School of Architecture will host a talk by Architect M. David Lee, FAIA, on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 6 p.m. in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center on the McNichols Campus.

The event will be sponsored by NOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects) and Hamilton Anderson Associates, Inc. and will be the first of seven lectures that the Architecture School will feature through next March.

Lee is a partner of Stull and Lee, Inc., Architects and Planners of Boston, Massachusetts and one of the most original black designers in the industry. He will be lecturing on "Reconciling Form and Context." He is also an adjunct professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has been a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A native of Chicago, a city that he calls, "the quintessential American city for architecture," Lee was an activist in the struggle against the Inner-Belt in Boston in the 1960's. A graduate of the University of Illinois and Harvard Graduate School of Design, he holds a dual degree in architecture and urban design.

M. David Lee's talk is free and open to the public. Continuing education points will also be are offered for this event. 

Release date: October 02, 2007

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