Joint Lecture Series

Joint lecture presented by the 2022 AIA Triangle Design Awards Jury Chair, Peter D. Cook, FAIA, NOMA will include discussion on the transformational power of architecture, evolution of the role of architects, and engagement of the community in the design process.  Join the AIA Triangle Women in Architecture as they host a networking reception at 5:30 pm prior to the lecture.

Felecia Davis is an associate professor of architecture, lead researcher in the Stuckeman Center for Design and Computation, and director of SOFTLAB in the Stuckeman School. Davis’s work in architecture and textiles connects art, science, engineering and design and re-imagines how we might use textiles in our daily lives and in architecture.

NC State Joint Lecture presented by Dr. Traci Rose Rider, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Doctor of Design faculty, and PhD Faculty at North Carolina State University’s College of Design.

NC State Joint Lecture presented by Sarah Robinson, an architect, writer, educator and organic farmer whose practice is based in the Langhe region of Piemonte, Italy. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Architecture Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark and teaches in the NAAD program at IUAV, Venice.

Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press).

David Benjamin is Founding Principal of The Living and Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP. He also directs the GSAPP Incubator. Benjamin’s work combines research and practice, and it involves exploring new ideas through prototyping. Focusing on the intersection of biology, computation, and design, Benjamin has articulated three frameworks for harnessing living organisms for architecture: bio-processing, bio-sensing, and bio-manufacturing.

Hitomi and Takuro Shibata, potters from Shigaraki, Japan, run Studio Touya in Seagrove, North Carolina. They make handmade pottery and sculptural work using natural material, wild clays and wood firing techniques.

NC State Joint Lecture presented by Sigrid Adriaenssens whose research focuses on lightweight surface systems and how they can be optimized and realized to interact with extreme structural or environmental loading. An exhibition of Sigrid's work will be on display at the Center for Architecture.

NC State Joint Lecture presented by Mira Henry and Matthew Au

NC State Joint Lecture presented by Lyndon Neri, Founding Partner, Neri&Hu Design & Research Office