Joint Lecture Series

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

Joint Lecture presented online by Melissa DelVecchio in partnership with the Doctor of Design program.

NC State Joint Lecture presented by Yasmin Vobis and Aaron Forrest

NC State Joint Lecture presented by Jha D Amazi, MASS Design Group the AIA Triangle Design Awards Jury Chair.

AIAT x NCSU College of Design Fall Lecture Series -- Arthur J. Clement, AIA -- What Can and Can't be Designed: The Museum Architecture of Phil Freelon