Fall 2006
The Nautilus

Annual lecture series presents internationally renowned speakers

The School of Architecture has attracted a number of leaders in the field of Architecture to speak as part of its 2006-2007 "Great Lakes Fabricators Lecture Series." The series includes:

  • Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007 @ 6:30 p.m.
    "Stillpoints"
    Micheal Rotondi: Roto Architects (Los Angeles, California)
    www.rotoark.com
  • Friday, Feb. 23, 2007 @ 5:00 p.m.
    "Bio-Climatic Urbanism in Phoenix"
    Dan Hoffman, Professor, Arizona State University; former head of Architecture at Cranbrook
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2007
    "From the City to the Object"
    Renée Daoust Lestage (Montreal, Canada)
    www.daoustlestage.com
    (re-scheduled from October 11, 2006)
  • Monday, March 26, 2007 @ 6:30 p.m.
    David Adjaye: Adjaye Associates (London, England)
    www.adjaye.com

Lectures will be held in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center, located in the Warren Loranger Architecture Building on the McNichols Campus. Continuing Education credits are offered for these talks.

The "Great Lakes Fabricators Lecture Series" is sponsored by the Great Lakes Fabricators and Erectors Association and Dichotomy, with supporting gifts from Ghafari Associates, Gensler, GunnLevine Architects, AIA Detroit, Hamilton Anderson Associates, Hobbs + Black, and Luckenbach Ziegelman Architects.

For more information on the lectures, including speaker profiles, please visit the web site at www.arch.udmercy.edu or call the School of Architecture at 313-993-1532.

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