Dana Cuff - Toguchi Lecture
Livestream or Recording:
Architectures of Spatial Justice
Dana Cuff is a professor, author, and scholar in architecture and urbanism at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is also the founding director of cityLAB, a think tank that explores design innovations in the emerging metropolis. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Architecture from UC Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about postwar Los Angeles, modern American urbanism, the architectural profession, affordable housing, and spatially embedded computing. Two books have been particularly important: Architecture: the Story of Practice which remains an influential text about the culture of the design profession, and The Provisional City, a study of residential architecture’s role in transforming Los Angeles over the past century. Her urban and architectural research now span across continents to Sweden, China, Japan, and Mexico. In 2013 and 2016, Cuff received major, multi-year awards from the Mellon Foundation for the Urban Humanities Initiative, bringing design and the humanities together at UCLA.
Jason Scroggin
Livestream or Recording:
Fabricating Play
Jason Scroggin is a licensed architect and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design. He received his Master of Science degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the UK College of Architecture. Jason is principal of Scroggin Studio, an architectural research practice that focuses on the design and realization of projects that present new ways to interact with built form from the scale of the city to interior environments and has produced internationally recognized and award-winning design projects. He has also worked as a lead designer in the world-renowned offices of Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, DPC in New York and Studio Libeskind in Berlin and has previously taught architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Discussants: Jean Jaminet, Paul Mosley, Nick Safley
Nader Tehrani - Perspectus Lecture
Livestream or Recording:
The Animate Analytique
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which he was also elected as a member in 2021. Tehrani has also been named the 2022 Design Visionary by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum of Design and has recently been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tehrani is founding principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation. Tehrani is also a professor at and former Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in New York. His research focuses on the transformation of the building industry, innovative material applications, and the development of new means and methods of construction, especially through digital fabrication. Tehrani’s work has received many prestigious awards, including nineteen Progressive Architecture Awards. Prior to becoming Dean at the Cooper Union, he taught at RISD, Harvard GSD, Georgia Tech, and MIT. Tehrani’s work has been exhibited at MOMA, LA MOCA and ICA Boston. His work is also part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Center for Architecture and the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Discussants: Sung Ho Kim (moderator), Nick Safley
Brittany Utting
Livestream or Recording:
A Type of Care lecture
Brittany Utting is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice University and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. Her work examines the relationship between architecture, collective life, and environmental care. She previously taught at the University of Michigan as the 2017-2018 Willard A. Oberdick Fellow. She is the editor of the forthcoming volume Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (Routledge, 2023), and guest editor, with Albert Pope, of the special issue Log 60: The Sixth Sphere (Winter/Summer 2024).
Jerome Haferd
Livestream or Recording:
(Architecture) At the Water's Edge
Jerome W Haferd is a licensed architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NYC. He is principal of the award-winning JEROME HAFERD studio, co-founder of BRANDT : HAFERD Architecture, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture where, starting in Fall 2023, he co-directs the new Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator.
Haferd’s practice critically engages built environment projects in both urban and rural contexts, often looking to marginalized histories to unlock a new imaginary for architecture, design, and cultural infrastructure. His work on complex sites includes collaborations with the Harlem African Burial Ground, Roots to Sky Collective, The Park Avenue Armory, and the National Black Theatre. He is lead architect and installation designer for the 2023-24 Culture, Creativity, and Care Initiative with the Mellon Foundation and Harlem Grown. The studio is one of the first prize recipients for the International Africatown Design Competition in Mobile, AL.
Haferd is also a core initiator of Dark Matter U, a BIPOC-led trans-disciplinary network geared towards new models of design pedagogy and practice. He received the 2022 #BlackVisionaries award as part of a DMU cohort.
His team’s recent projects include the Sankofa installation in Harlem, their winning Africatown Competition Proposal “In the Wake,” the BLK BOX experimental arts venue and Beautiful Browns, awarded second prize in the 2021 OnOlive emerging Black architect housing competition. Haferd also co-led the DMU “Constellation'' exhibit at the 2022 Lisbon Architecture Trienale : Terra.
Ilmar Hurkxkens - Steidl Lecture
Livestream or Recording:
Robotic Landscapes
Ilmar Hurkxkens is head of the Geographic Design cluster at Boskalis and lecturer at the Section Landscape Architecture, Departement of Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. His work focuses on the form and processes of natural granular materials using advanced surveying, modelling, and fabrication techniques. After graduating in architecture with an honourable mention from Delft University of Technology, he worked at the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Professor Christophe Girot, ETH Zurich, where he was DesignLab coordinator and member of the Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab. He received the Young Researcher Award from the Volkswagen Foundation in 2013 and the Digital Culture Work Grant from the Migros Culture Percentage with Ungenau Robotics in 2018. He is co-founder of LANDSKIP, a laboratory centered on the production and deployment of new technologies for landscape transformation. In 2020 he was nominated for the ETH Medal for his dissertation “Robotic Landscapes” at the NCCR Digital Fabrication after which he completed a postdoc at Gramazio Kohler Research. Part of his doctoral research is published in his publication “Robotic Landscapes: Designing the Unfinished” by Park Books in Zurich 2022.
John Humphries
Livestream or Recording:
Machines for Fishing the Subconscious
Professor John Humphries completed degrees in Architecture from The University of Texas at Arlington and a Master of Fine Arts from New England College.
John Humphries is a gardener, visual artist, and designer focusing on translating one media form to another and visually representing natural and sensorial phenomena beyond the comprehension of humans senses in scale and time.
Creative design and art takes the form of watercolor drawings and ceramic architectonic assemblages. John has exhibited in Japan, The Republic of Ireland, Germany, The Czech Republic and in the US. Exhibitions include Drawn from the Winter at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center in Ohio, Living Stone at the Galerie Ladislava Sutnara in Plzen, Czech Republic, Myths and Memories at The Morris Graves Museum in California and Trilobitic Surfaces at The Ohio Biennial. Awards include twice receiving the Merit of Distinction by the Interior Design Educators Council, International Juror’s Award by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators and an award for course materials by the Interior Design Council and Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. John is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, The St. James Cavalier in Valletta, Malta, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre of Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts.