2007-2008 Toeniskoetter Family Lecture Series

September

10 - DAVID LIGARE, Neo-classical painter, Monterey, California
Critical Reconstructions
A post-modern fine artist, David Ligare paints in a neo-classical style using narrative and mythology in a historically informed body of work. He has had over 30 solo exhibitions in New York, London, Rome, Los Angeles, San Francisco and has been shown in hundreds of group exhibitions all over the world. His paintings are included in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Wadsworth Athenaem in Hartford Connecticut and the Ufizzi in Florence, Italy. With his lecture, Ligare will explain how he has viewed and interpreted Greco-Roman classicism and then applied that critical evaluation to his own work.

24 - EDWARD SUZUKI, Principal, Edward Suzuki Associates Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Interface: Borrowing from Engawa
Born in Japan, Edward Suzuki received his B.Arch from the University of Notre Dame and an M.Arch from Harvard. The founding principal of Edward Suzuki Associates Inc., he has received numerous design awards including the "20th-Century Environment Design Award" and several "Good Design Awards." With his lecture he will discuss “Interface” which he says is where "the outside and inside meet in a harmonious manner.” He says when working in cities like Tokyo he often designs “a filter, a buffer zone that acts like a ‘mist’ between the inside and the outside to hide undesirable surroundings.” His “interface” is based on “Engawa,” which Suzuki says in traditional Japanese architecture represents the zone between the outside and the inside and “the wisdom of the Japanese way of life.”

October

5 - 7 - FIRST INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FOR NEW URBANISM CONGRESS
Notre Dame Architecture will host students from across the country to meet and to discuss development practices and public policies, and to learn from recent innovative work.

12 - JOHN ANDERSON, Vice President of Planning and Design, New Urban Builders, Inc., Chico, California
The Black Art of Real Estate Development
Anderson will discuss overcoming the obsticles to build communities with a range of housing types, sizes and prices, a mix of civic and commercial uses, and a network of connected streets. He will discuss entitlement, finance, engineering, utility design and sales as it pertains to real estate in the U.S., and will present mixed-use work he considers a more rational and responsible urban pattern.

The John Burgee Lecture
17 - PAOLO PORTOGHESI, Architect and Professor, University of Sapienza, Rome
An Architect of Theory and Practice, Buildings, History and Theory
An Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor, Paolo Portoghesi specializes in teaching and researching Baroque architecture, and in particular Borromini and Michaelangelo. His interest in more contemporary architecture coincided largely with that of his colleague in Rome, Bruno Zevi, in championing a more organic form of modernism, evident in, for instance, the work of Victor Horta and Frank Lloyd Wright, and in Italy with neorealism and the Neo-Liberty style.. It is also evident in his concern for the studies of nature, brought to the fore in his more recent book Nature and Architecture. He is a former editor of the journal Controspazio and former dean of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

November

The Richard H. Driehaus Prize Lecture
7 - JAQUELIN T. ROBERTSON, 2007 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Laureate and Principal, Cooper Robertson & Partners
The Great Continuum in the 21st Century
A partner in the firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners, Jaquelin T. Robertson founded the New York City Urban Design Group. In addition to the 2007 Driehaus Prize, Robertson has received numerous design awards, including the 1998 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture and the 2002 Seaside Prize for his contributions to American urbanism.

December

Student Association for Women in Architecture/Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Lecture
3 - BEVERLY WILLIS, Architect, Artist and Philanthropist, New York
Fabricating Identities in Architecture
Beverly Willis, FAIA, will explore the ways that architects’ identities --- including her own ---have been formed and produced. According to Willis, some architects' identities are self-controlled, like that of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who adopted the pseudonym “Le Corbusier” (The Crow) to lend himself a certain mystique. Others are forged by the media --- Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark from The Fountainhead --- renders an image so clear the fictitious architect is often mistaken to be alive and practicing.

January

(NEVINS LECTURE CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED FALL 2008)
21 - DEBORAH NEVINS, Principal designer and president, Deborah Nevins & Associates, New York
Changes in Scenery: Principles in Landscape Architecture
With her firm, Deborah Nevins and Associates, New York, Ms. Nevins has designed public and private landscapes throughout the United States and in the Caribbean. Her projects vary widely in character, yet are unified by their compelling spatial organization and sensitivity to the architectural context. She is highly regarded for her knowledge of accessible landscape planning. An accomplished landscape and architectural historian, Ms. Nevins has written extensively for popular and scholarly publications.

28 - RACHEL GUTTER, LEED Sector Manager for Higher Education, U.S. Green Building Council
USGBC and LEED: Building Green on Campus and Beyond
As the School Sector Manager for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Rachel Gutter works on a national level to promote and facilitate the construction of high performance, green schools. She oversees USGBC’s National Green School Campaign as well as the LEED for Schools Green Building Rating System ®, USGBC’s market-specific guidelines that recognize the unique nature and educational aspects of the design and construction of K-12 educational facilities. Ms. Gutter presents at conferences and conventions around the country, educating stakeholders and the public on the value of building sustainable schools. Her recent experience in the fields of green building consulting and high performance educational design includes her work with the Green Building Program of Montgomery County Public Schools – one of the only school systems in the country to mandate green school construction.

February

4 - JOHN ALEXANDER, Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of Texas at San Antonio
The Architectural Language of Carlo Borromeo's Commissions
Carlo Borromeo (1538 - 1584) transformed both the architectural context of Milan and the standard interior configuration of Catholic churches by his commissions and his published code for church architecture, the "Instructiones" (Milan, 1577).  However, he had a rather ambiguous stance about the architectural language that was appropriate for churches.  This talk proposes to delineate, to the extent possible, what Borromeo thought about architectural language, and what his prefered architect, Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527 - 1596) accomplished.

15 - 17 - 2008 EXPO ROMA
A weekend celebrating the class of 2009's year in Rome.

March

12 - MARIANNE CUSATO, B. Arch '97, A designer who pioneered the Lowe’s Katrina Cottage, and BEN PENTREATH, A London-based architectural designer
A discussion of the new book, Get Your House Right

27 - 28 - 2008 Career Fair

29 - Driehaus Prize Award Presentation, John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium, downtown Chicago

April

9 - MIGUEL LANDA SIERRA, Director of Museums and Special Projects, Qhapaq Nan Project, Cusco, Peru
The Qhapaq Nan Project
Architect Miguel Landa, through “The Qhapaq Nan Project,” is working with archaeologists, architects and engineers to preserve 40,000 kilometers, or roughly 24,800 miles of roads through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The roads were made of stone and were organized in a system which had a center in the city of Cusco, Peru. The project also looks to preserve archaeological settlements, bridges and Incas food storage rooms. Qhapaq Nan, in Qechua, the Incas’ language, means Royal Roads or the roads for the Inca.

(TORRE LECTURE CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED FALL 2008)
14 - SUSANA TORRE, Architect, New York
Architecture, Urbanism and the Feminist Project

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