Past Lectures

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2020-2021 Lecture Series

Sept. 21, 2020, 6:30 p.m.: Jeffrey Day, FAIA | Watch on demand | Learn more
Oct. 19, 2020, 6:30 p.m.: Ari Melenciano | Watch on demand | Learn more
Nov. 2, 2020, 6:30 p.m.: V. Mitch McEwen | Watch on demand | Learn more
Feb. 8, 2021, 6:30 p.m.: Refik Anadol | Watch on demand | Learn more
Feb. 22, 2021, 6:30 p.m.: Dan Wheeler | Watch on demand | Learn more
March 22, 2021, 6:30 p.m.: Karen Braitmayer | Learn more | Watch on demand
March 29, 2021, 6:30 p.m.: James Carpenter | AGC Glass Lecture | Learn more | Watch on demand
April 12, 2021, 6:00 p.m.: Kengo Kuma | General Shale Lecture | Learn more | Watch on demand

Spring 2020 Lectures

Fall 2019 Lectures

Spring 2019 Lectures

Jan. 28 | 5:30 p.m. | Lola Sheppard | University of Waterloo and Lateral Office | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Feb. 11 | 5:30 p.m. | Jessica Rosenkrantz | Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nervous System | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Feb. 26 | 5:30 p.m. | DJ Spooky | Multimedia Artist | Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall | Natalie L. Haslam Music Center | Robert B. Church Fund, UT School of Music, TAAST | Archived Lecture
Mar. 25 | 5:30 p.m. | Josh Shelton | el dorado | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Apr. 1 | 5:30 p.m. | Nate Imai | Univ. of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Apr. 8 | 5:30 p.m. | Alyssa Kuhns | Univ. of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Apr. 15 | 5:30 p.m. | Sir David Adjaye | Adjaye Associates | General Shale Lecture | UT Cox Auditorium | Archived Lecture

Fall 2018 Lectures

Sept. 17 | 5:30 p.m. | Bryan Cantley | California State Univ. Fullerton | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Sept. 24 | 5:30 p.m. | Jeff Goldstein | DIGSAU | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Oct. 1 | 5:30 p.m. | Ronald Rael | Univ. of California Berkeley | Emerging Objects | Governor’s Chair Lecture | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Governor’s Chair for Energy + Urbanism | Archived Lecture
Oct. 8 | 5:30 p.m. | David Gissen | California College of the Arts | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund
Exhibit | Oct. 12 | Oyler Wu Collaborative | Ewing Gallery
Oct. 22 | 5:30 p.m. | Ashley Carse | Vanderbilt Univ. | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Nov. 12 | 5:30 p.m. | Tim Swanson | Skender Construction | Rm. 111 | Governor’s Chair for Energy + Urbanism
Nov. 14 | 5:30 p.m. | Billie Faircloth | KieranTimberlake | UT BarberMcMurry Professor | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | BarberMcMurry Endowed Professorship | Archived Lecture
Nov. 19 | 5:30 p.m. | Liz Teston | Univ. of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture

Spring 2018 Lectures

Jan. 29 | 5:30 p.m. | Jimenez Lai | Bureau Spectacular | UCLA Architecture and Urban Design | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Feb. 12 | 5:30 p.m. | Christopher Marcinkoski | Port Urbanism | University of Pennsylvania | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Feb. 19 | 5:30 p.m. | Yolande Daniels | Studio Sumo | Parsons School of Design | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Mar. 5 | 5:30 p.m. | Bill Baker | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Governor’s Chair Lecture | Archived Lecture
Mar. 19 | 5:30 p.m. | Geoff Manaugh | BldgBlog | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund
Mar. 26 | 5:30 p.m. | Josh Shelton | el dorado | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | This lecture was cancelled.
Apr. 2 | 5:30 p.m. | Micah Rutenberg | UT College of Architecture and Design | Rm. 109/McCarty Auditorium | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Apr. 9 | 5:30 p.m. | Juhani Pallasmaa | Helsinki University of Technology | General Shale Lecture | UT Cox Auditorium | Archived Lecture

Fall 2017 Lectures

Sept. 13 | Fiona Raby | Dunne & Raby | Parsons School of Design | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Sept. 25 | Jorge Otero-Pailos | Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture | Robert B. Church Fund | Co-sponsored with AIA ETN | Archived Lecture
Oct. 16 | Paul Lewis | Lewis, Tsurumaki, Lewis | Princeton University School of Architecture | Robert B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture
Nov. 9 | Shannon Mattern | The New School, School of Media Studies | Robert. B. Church Fund | Archived Lecture

Spring 2017 Lectures

Feb. 6 | Scott Duncan | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Governor’s Chair Lecture | Watch Archived Lecture
Feb. 20 | Brad Collett | UT College of Architecture + Design | Robert B. Church Lecture | Watch Archived Lecture
Feb. 27 | Nicholas de Monchaux | Univ. of California, Berkeley | Robert B. Church Lecture | Watch Archived Lecture
Apr. 8 | Kazuyo Sejima | SANAA | General Shale Lecture | Bijou Theatre
Apr. 10 | Nataly Gattegno | Future Cities Lab | Robert B. Church Lecture | Watch Archived Lecture
Apr. 17 | Darius Ammon | UT College of Architecture + Design | Robert B. Church Lecture | Watch Archived Lecture
Apr. 29 | Craig Dykers | Snohetta | General Shale Lecture | Bijou Theatre

Fall 2016 Lectures

Sept. 26 | Paul Mankins | substancearchitecture | “Work of substance: r²c²s²p” | Co-sponsored by AIA East Tennessee | Watch Archived Lecture
Oct. 10 | Liam Young | Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today | “Hello City” | Watch Archived Lecture
Oct. 27 (Thursday) | Keller Easterling | Keller Easterling | Yale University | “Extrastatecraft” | Watch Archived Lecture
Nov. 7 | Avigail Sachs | UT College of Architecture + Design | “Theories of Action: Modern Architecture in the United States” | Watch Archived Lecture
Please note: The Dec. 5 lecture was cancelled.

Spring 2016 Lectures

Jan. 25 (Rescheduled to Feb. 1) | Deborah Schneiderman, Pratt Institute | “The Prefabricated Interior” | Watch Archived Lecture
Feb. 15 | Katarina Burin, Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies | “Contribution and Collaboration: The Work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár and Her Contemporaries” | Watch Archived Lecture
Feb. 29 | David Benjamin, The Living | “Adaptation” | Watch Archived Lecture
Mar. 28 | Governor’s Chair Lecture: Kristopher Takacs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | “Leveraging Transportation Investment to Transform Urban Districts” | Details | Watch Archived Lecture
Apr. 11 | Maria Hurtado de Mendoza_estudio.entresitio | “fuzzy bounded” | Details | Watch Archived Lecture
Apr. 18 | Charles Waldheim, Harvard Graduate School of Design | “Landscape as Urbanism” | Details | Watch Live
Apr. 30 | General Shale Lecture: Thom Mayne, mOrphosis | Details | Bijou Theatre | Watch Archived Lecture

Fall 2015 Lectures

Aug. 24 | Neeraj Bhatia, The Open Workshop | “Choreographing Infrastructure” | Watch Archived Lecture
Sep. 21 | Kiel Moe, Harvard Graduate School of Design | “Our Model of Models” | Watch Archived Lecture
Sep. 28 | Jerry Van Eyck, !melk | “Identity is not Imitation” | Details | Lecture Not Recorded
Oct. 12 | Wendell Burnette, Wendell Burnette Architects | “Dialogues in Space” | Details | Watch Archived Lecture
Oct. 20 | Brian Lee, SOM | “Innovations in Practice” | McClung Museum | Details | Watch Archived Lecture
Oct. 21 | Governor’s Chair Panel Discussion | “AMIE 1.0” | McClung Museum | Details |Watch Archived Lecture
Oct. 26 | Sean Lally, Weathers | “The Air from Other Planets” | Details | Lecture Not Recorded
Nov. 09 | Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio | “Aftermath” | Details |Watch Archived Lecture

Past Lectures

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Spring 2019 Lectures

Fall 2018 Lectures

Spring 2018 Lectures

Fall 2017 Lectures

Spring 2017 Lectures

Fall 2016 Lectures

Spring 2016 Lectures

Fall 2015 Lectures

Spring 2015 Lectures

Fall 2014 Lectures

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