Live Webinar – NC State Summer Lecture Presented by Kristen Schaffer, PhD

AIA Triangle and NC State College of Design

Summer School Lecture Series

Kristen Schaffer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture

History, Precedent, and Architectural Education: One Historian’s View

Wednesday, June 17  | 1:00 pm | 1 LU Credit
ONLINE PROGRAM – Deadline to register June 17 @ 10:00 am

Link to online program will be emailed to registrants

PROGRAM

This lecture on the the use of history and precedent begins with the so-called Texas Rangers and their reintroduction of historical precedent into architecture and urban design studios in the mid-20th century and ends with the School of Architecture at NCSU in the early 21st century.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Participants will reflect on the role of precedent in architectural pedagogy
• Participants will discuss the changing attitude toward the Bauhaus method of education in the 1950s
• Participants will discuss the significance of the Texas Rangers in architectural education
• Participants will differentiate between history and precedent

PRESENTED BY

Kristen Schaffer, PhD., Associate, School of Architecture, NCSU

Dr. Kristen Schaffer is an architectural historian in the School of Architecture, a recipient of the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, and an internationally recognized expert on Daniel H. Burnham and the Plan of Chicago. Her articles have appeared in British, Italian, and German publications. She has given talks at the National Building Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Chicago Humanities Festival, as well as at conferences and professional society meetings in the U.S. and Europe. She was a juror for the Burnham Memorial Competition sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the AIA, and has been invited to participate in the Chicago Architectural Club jury for the 2020 Burnham Prize Competition.