News Release
James Timberlake Speaks at College of Architecture
University of Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture is collaborating with Lawrence Technological University (LTU) to host the Harley Ellis Devereaux Corporation Centennial Lecture on Wednesday, November 12 at 2 p.m. in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center on the McNichols campus.
James Timberlake, founding partner of KieranTimberlake, will discuss several current projects and talk with a panel of respected Michigan architects.
Timberlake received his B.A. from the University of Detroit Mercy and later a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is a founding partner of Kieran Timberlake Associates LLP, based in Philadelphia. His company received the 2008 Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor bestowed on a firm by the American Institute of Architects.
He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Endowed Professor in Sustainability at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Timberlake has served as the Eero Saarinen Distinguished Professor of Design at Yale University, Max Fisher Chair at the University of Michigan, and has taught at Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, and other institutions.
In addition, Timberlake, recently finished the Cellophane House- a five-story house created offsite fabricated and displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The inspiration for this creation drew from several ideas, including the concept of actually living transparently.
In the past several years, he has also co-authored two books: Manual, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake, and Refabricating Architecture. Timberlake’s forthcoming book, Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture, (written with Stephan Kieran, FAIA) is a case study of their award-winning residential project.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact the UDM School of Architecture at 313-993-1512.
Release date: November 11, 2008
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