Professors Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel of the Physics Department at the University of Chicago are pleased to offer a public guest lecture series, about innovative approaches to resolving forces in architecture and design. These lectures are by renowned architects, designers and engineers who will speak about the cutting edge of architectural design practice.
Thursdays at 5:30 PM CDT
Lectures are open to the general public via Zoom. Register here.
Lecture 1: Morphogenesis & Design: Towards Adaptive Architecture
Jenny Sabin (Jenny Sabin Studio & Cornell University)
April 9
Lecture 2: Architecture After Objects: Biofabrication, Emergent Entities, and the End of Static Form
Mitchell Joachim (Terreform, Brooklyn, & New York University)
April 16
Lecture 3: On Forces and Form
John Ochsendorf (MIT)
April 23
Lecture 4: LEVER/Regenerative Timber Architecture
Thomas Robinson (Lever Architecture, Portland, OR)
April 30
Lecture 5: Building (for) more with less: Sustainable development through low-carbon design
Mohamed Ismail (University of Virginia)
May 7
Lecture 6: Designing for Extreme Environments
Xavier De Kestelier (Hassell Studio, London)
May 14
Lecture 7: TBA
Jason Frantzen (Herzog & de Meuron, Basel)
May 21
