Fall 2008
The Nautilus

Lecture series combines renowned architects and transdisciplinary practices

The School of Architecture's 2008-2009 annual lecture series has already featured two outstanding architects, Andrew Zago of Zago Architecture and James Timberlake '74, of Kiernan Timberlake Associates LLP. (See a profile of Timberlake in this issue.) But there are still three lectures on the roster for 2009.

The series, sponsored by Great Lakes Fabricators and Erectors Association and Harley Ellis Devereaux Corporation, focuses on the multi-disciplinary approach that celebrates the increasingly complex relationships amongst architects, industrial designers, urban designers, educators and landscape architects.

  • On Feb. 4, the Gensler Lecture + Rossetti Associates Lecture features Susan Sellers of 2x4 Design in New York.
  • Metrogramma's Andrea Boschetti and Alberto Francini of Milan, Italy headline the March 18 lecture. Sponsored by GLFEA  and JPRA Architects, the lecture is titled "Metrogramma. The Architecture of Public City. The Future of History."
  • The final lecture on April 1 features Walter Hood of Hood Design, Oakland, Calif., who will discuss "Urban Landscaptes + Provocations." The lecture is sponsored by the UDM Master of Community Development Program and NOMA Detroit.

All lectures begin at 6 p.m. and take place in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center in the Warren Loranger Architecture Building. For more information, please call 313-993-1532.

Detroit Titans
Free tickets

Show your UDM Alumni Association card at the door and get two free tickets to the Titans vs. St. Louis men's basketball game at Calihan Hall on Saturday, Nov. 29 at 2:05 p.m.


Don't have a card?

Save the date

Homecoming 2009 and Dean's Chili Cook-Off

Saturday, Jan. 24 beginning at noon.

Watch for details in Alumni e-Connect next month.

Wanted: 1987 yearbook

University Archives has a copy of every U of D Tower yearbook in its permanent archives, except for 1987.


If you have a copy of the 1987 Tower, please consider donating it to the archive. Contact Dean of Libraries Margaret Auer at 313-993-1090.