The SAAHP Public Events Series introduces students, professionals and the public to the work and ideas of people celebrated in their fields, and helps establish a standard of excellence for the School through lectures, exhibitions and conferences.
Fall 2006 Evening Lecture Series
Lectures were on Wednesdays in the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation Lecture Theatre ARCH 132 unless otherwise noted.
September 6
"Regionalism & Globalization"
Raj Rewal, Architect, New Delhi, India
ARCH 132
September 7
"Architecture in Chile"
Rodrigo Perez de Arce, Architect and Professor, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
ARCH 132
September 8
"Maciej Nowicki, Architect (Poland): From Childhood to Cahndigarh"
Tadeusz W. Barucki, Architect, Architectural Critic and Historian, Warsaw, Poland
ARCH 132
September 20
"Sunlight is Life"
Steve Strong, President, Solar Design Associates, Inc., Harvard, Massachusetts
ARCH 132
September 27
"Recent Work"
Alex Anmahian, AIA; Anmahian-Winton Architects, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ARCH 132
October 4
"Waclaw Zalewski: Shaping Structures"
Exhibition Opening
A Conversation: Edward Allen, Waclaw Zalewski, and Robert Dermody
ARCH 132/Exhibition Gallery
October 25
"Modernism and Practice/Projects and Buildings"
Andrew Cohen, RWU Professor of Architecture, and Andrew Cohen Architects, Wayland, Massachusetts
ARCH 132
November 1
"Infrathin"
Min-Day Architects, San Francisco, California & Omaha, Nebraska
Lecture and Exhibition Opening
E.B. Min, Architect and Jeffrey Day, Architect and Associate Professor, University of Nebraska
ARCH 132/Exhibition Gallery
November 8
"Classicism and Tradition in Palladio's Venice"
Dr. Tracey E. Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, The Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ARCH 132
November 15
"Gold Fish, Smoke Rings, Twelve Butterflies and Stacked Dominoes"
Donald Sultan, Artist, New York
ARCH 132
Fall 2006 SAAHP Exhibitions
Exhibition hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
September 27 - October 25
"Waclaw Zalewski: Shaping Structures"
Six decades of work and teachings by Waclaw Zalewski, MIT Professor Emeritus of Architecture
November 1 - November 29
"Infrathin"
Min-Day Architects, San Francisco, California & Omaha, Nebraska
Fall 2006 SAAHP Conferences
September 9
Chandigarh 50+
Revisiting Corbusier's Iconic City
A Symposium, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Participants: Rodrigo Perez de Arce, Tadeusz W. Barucki, Julian Beinart, Kenneth Frampton, Ravi Kalia, Hasan-Uddin Khan, Raj Rewal, Marius Reynolds, Madhu Sarin and Stephen White
CAS 157
Lecturers who have visited the School in the past several years include architects, landscape architects, artists, historians, critics and preservationists of national and international achievement. These include Teddy Cruz, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Elizabeth Playter-Zyberk, Suha Ozkan, Peter Eisenman, Michael Sorkin, Michael Bell, Ricardo Legoretta, Vito Acconci, Marylin Stokstad, David Macaulay, the Guerrilla Girls, James Kunstler, Angela L. Miller, Lebbeus Woods, Ron Krueck, William Curtis, Laurie Olin, Nicholas Goldsmith, Galen Cranz, Gisue Hariri, Wes Jones, Philip Robert, Steven Peterson, Gil Rosenthal, Ted Krueger, Peter Prangnell, SYSTEM Architects, Mary Miss, and Dutch architects Winy Maas, Felix Claus, Liesbeth van der Pol, Willem Jan Neutelings, and Peter Defesche and Matthijs deBoer of OD205.
A generous anonymous bequest has permitted the establishment of an endowment to support public and special events programs related to Historic Preservation. Additional support from the Felicia Fund, the Newport Restoration Foundation, the Amica Foundation, and individual donors enhance the series. Begun in Spring 1999, the Endowed Series supported lectures, conferences on Mainstreet, and the Preservation Forum held in conjunction with the nationwide Vernacular Architecture Forum. Since 2002, the fund has supported the RWU International Fellows Summer Program, focusing on interrelationships between regional and international historic preservation and architecture issues.
As part of the School's ongoing exhibition program of professional, alumni, and student work, many traveling exhibitions are brought to campus, supplementing the annual Art Exhibit and the show of Art students' work. Recent exhibitions have included the works of Double Journeys: San Diego/Tijuana: Estudio Teddy Cruz, The Splendors of Georgetown, Working Drawings/Building Books: The Work of David Macaulay; Big Plans: Michael Sorkin, Sorkin Studio, New York; architects Ricardo Legoretta, Mexico City; Estes Twombly Architects, Newport; artists Allison Saar, Ellen Driscoll, landscape architect Laurie Olin, Austrian Schools and Architects-in-Exile (sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Institute), the Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo (sponsored by the Graham Foundation and the Netherlands-America Foundation), and the work of Greek architect Aris Konstantinidis.
Beginning in 2002-2003, the Ganteaume and McMullen Professional Development Lecture Series provides additional endowed support for conferences hosting its first event, The Campus: Mission, Identity & Form, convened by Professor Edgar Adams, with guest speakers Ann Beha, Michael Dennis, Richard Dober, and Alistair McIntosh. This was followed in 2003-2004 by a Lecture Series and Workshops in Sustainability, convened by Professor Ulker Copur, featuring Vivian Loftness, FAIA, Carnegie Mellon University; Jean Carroon, Goody Clancy and Associates; Cinzia Abbate, Studio Abbate & Vigevano, Rome; and Russell Perry of William McDonough