Spring Lecture Series
2023-2024 Lecture Series
All fall 2024 lectures will be delivered in person and virtually via Zoom at 5:15 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.
The School of Architecture’s Lecture Series provides a venue for students, faculty, and the larger community, to engage in critical thinking about architecture and urbanism. The lectures allow stdudents and faculty to interact with distinguished practitioners, academics, and theorists who shape the world’s natural and built environment.
Pre-registration is required for each event to receive AIA CEC (if available), a certificate of participation, and/or participate in the conversation.
All lectures are presented at the Manfredi Family Auditorium at the Walsh Family School of Architecture and will be posted on our YouTube channel after the event.
Spring 2024
Wednesday, February 14 | A Lecture by Philip Smith, M.Arch '19
African American Classical Architecture Then and Now
Wednesday, February 21 | A Lecture by John Simpson
The Timeless Language of Classicism
Wednesday, March 20 | The Uprising Colloquium
João Gonçalo Batista, classical Portuguese architect in Oporto, will moderate a panel discussion with members of the Architectural Uprising, a Scandanavia people’s movement that protests against the uglification of cities around the world
Wednesday, March 27 | A Lecture by José Baganha
Tradition and Contemporaneity: Learning from the past
Wednesday, April 3 | A Lecture by Emily Talen
How Cities Speak to Us
Wednesday, April 10 | A Lecture by Maya Segarra
Rome and its Myth of Eternity
FALL 2023
Wednesday, September 6 | A Lecture by Mallory B.E. Baches
The Past, Present, and Future of CNU: The Next 30 Years of Architecture and Urbanism
Thursday, September 14 | A Lecture by Yuriy Kryvoruchko translated by Tomasz Jeleński
Directions for the Rebuilding of Ukraine
Wednesday, September 20 | A Lecture by Dreck Spurlock Wilson
African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary 1865-1945
Wednesday, October 4 | A Lecture by Annalinda Neglia
Middle Eastern Cultural Landscapes: Sustainable Recovery and Development
Wednesday, October 25 | A Lecture by Mark Hewitt
The Neuroscience of Design: What All Architects Need to Know
Wednesday, November 1 | A Lecture by Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas
Earthen architecture: Past, Present and Future
Wednesday, November 15 | A Lecture by Ben Pentreath
Designing to the Rhythms of Time
SPRING 2023
Thursday, February 2 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Lecture by Frank A. Guridy
The Stadium in American Life: Views from the Press Box and the Locker Room
During this lecture, Guridy will examine two sections of the American stadium—the press box and the locker room—to analyze how women sportswriters challenged gender discrimination in the male-dominated world of sports journalism during the 1970s. Click here for more information.
February 8 | A Lecture by Diane Favro
Connections Between Contemporary Design and Ancient Roman Architecture
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February 22 | A Lecture by Cyril Pressacco and Thibaut Barrault
The Necessity of Fullness: Natural materials in contemporary construction
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March 29 | A Lecture by Sonja Tubbesing
The Berlin Cathedral: Designing, Building, Preserving
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April 5 | A Lecture by Christoph Mäckler
The Urban Architecture Handbook
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The 2023 Spring lecture series is presented by The Nortman Lecture Series.
FALL 2022
September 27 (Tuesday) | The John Burgee Lecture by Phillippe Villeneuve and Rémi Fromont
Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecting a Legacy
This Notre-Dame de Paris lecture recording is available for public viewing on the School of Architecture YouTube channel.
October 5 | The Nortman Lecture Series presents, A Lecture by Marc Jordi
Urban Design, Architecture and Historic Preservation
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October 26 | The Nortman Lecture Series presents, A Lecture by Thomas Albrecht
Urban Design and New Traditional Building Technologies
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November 2 | The Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability Lecture by Carl Elefante
Historic Preservation: The Overlooked Climate Imperative
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November 9 | The Nortman Lecture Series presents, A Lecture by Markus Tubbesing
Merging Urban Planning and Architecture in Theory, Teaching, and Practice
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SPRING 2022
POSTPONED INDEFINITELY - January 26 | A lecture by Debby Sneed
Classical Design, Accessibility, and Authenticity: An Ancient Perspective
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CANCELLED - February 23 | A lecture by Fernando Martín Sanjuán
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March 2 | The Robert A.M. Stern Architects Lecture by Javier Cenicacelaya
On Precedent
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March 30 | A lecture by Yaromir Steiner
Understanding Retail - Past, Present & Future
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April 6 | Richard H. Driehaus Lecture presented by Sebastian and Julia Treese
The Complex and the Ordinary
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FALL 2021
September 1 | A virtual lecture by Gabriele Tagliaventi
The Healthy City After the Covid-19 Pandemic
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September 22 | A lecture by Jean-François Lejeune
The Modernity of the Informal: North-South Collisions
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September 29 | The John Burgee Lecture: Bonna Wescoat
Negotiating Sacred Terrain: The Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
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October 6 | A virtual lecture by Mary Kay Lanzillotta, FAIA
Hartman-Cox Architects: Restoration, Rehabilitation and Re-creation
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October 27 | A lecture by John Casbarian
The Order of Place: A Collaborative Process
Influences and reflections on an architectural process in teaching and practicing architecture
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VIRTUAL LECTURES - SPRING 2021
February 24 | A Lecture from Daniel & Karen Parolek
The Transformative Power of Design Thinking
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March 3 | The Robert A.M. Stern Architects Lecture: Presented by Laurie Olin
Disegno = Design; the necessity of drawing
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March 10 | A Lecture from Joe Minicozzi
The Issue of Value in Urban Development: The empiric argument for the urban experience
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March 31 | A Lecture from Ricardo Arosemena & KC Hardin
La Quince Santa Ana, A Case for Sustainable Urban Revitalization from a Developer’s and an Architect’s perspective
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April 7 | A Lecture from Boris Dramov & Bonnie Fisher
An Architectural Approach to Urbanism - the San Francisco Story
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April 28 | A Lecture from Roberta Washington
Say My Name – When Sites Call Out to You for Recognition
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VIRTUAL LECTURES - FALL 2020
September 9 | A Lecture from Mohamad Hamouie
Crafting Architecture
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September 21 | A Lecture from CJ Howard*
Commemorative Unity
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September 30 | A Lecture from Marieanne Khoury Vogt
Style and Substance: Designing a New Urbanist town in the 21st Century
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October 7 | A Lecture from Michael Manfredi
Lines of Movement
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October 14 | A Lecture from Zena Howard
Culture in Architecture: An Expression of Values
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October 21 | A Lecture from Alberto Castro Nunes & Antonio María Braga
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October 28 | A Lecture from Lara Zureikat
Culture, Environment, and Outreach: Reflecting on a 25-Year Post-Notre Dame Professional Journey
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*Lecture is on a Monday