Samuel Assefa

The 2007-2008 School of Architecture Lecture Series continues on Nov. 28 with Samuel Assefa, LEED AP, deputy commissioner, Urban Design and Planning, Chicago Department of Planning and Development. Assefa, also the new director of Policy for the department, is charged with advancing Mayor Richard M. Daley's vision of making Chicago America's most livable city. In this position, he coordinates policies on land development, architecture, urban design and sustainable development. Assefa's lecture, "Green Urbanism," begins at 6 p.m. in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center.

The overall series, Accents/A Global Perspective, focuses on the multi-disciplinary and multi-lingual approach that celebrates the increasingly complex relationships amongst architects, industrial designers, urban planners, educators, and landscape architects. The lecture series is sponsored by Great Lakes Fabricators and Erectors Association,
Dichotomy, Hamilton Anderson, Rossetti Associates AIA Detroit, JPRA Architects, Gensler Associates, Gunn Levine, Barton Marlow and Hobbs & Black.

Continuing education credits are offered for theses events. For more information, please call the UDM School of Architecture at 313-993-1532, or contact Associate Professor Amy Green Deines at deinesag@udmercy.edu.

The series continues with the following speakers.  Lectures begin at 6 p.m. in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center:

January 23, 2008
Lisa Krohn, Krohn Design—Industrial Designer, Los Angeles
"Form with Content"

February 6, 2008
Pierre Bélanger—University of Toronto, Co-chair, Centre for Landscape Research, Toronto, Canada
"Landscape as Infrastructure"

February 27, 2008
Maurizio Sabini—Associate Professor, Chair, Kent State University College of Architecture + Environmental Design, Cleveland
"Getting Ready for 2010"

March 19-20, 2008
Will Alsop—Alsop and Stormer, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Moscow + Toronto
GLFEA and FPRA sponsored lecture in collaboration with Lawrence Technological University

• March 19
  Will Alsop Panel Discussion and Reception, place to be determined.
• March 20
  "Progress Check" Lecture begins at 7 p.m. with a reception to follow, Lawrence Technological University, College of Architecture and Design Auditorium, A-200, 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, Mich.