Lecture Series I & II
Visiting scholars, journalists and critics will discuss topics of importance, while introducing students to research methods. Some lecturers will discuss practical aspects of their critical endeavors and others will focus on intellectual issues. The aim is to bring students in contact with a wide variety of professional perspectives and to introduce them to experts in the field. In the Spring semester, students work in pairs to select, invite, host and respond to a guest lecturer for the spring semester.
Sample Guest Lecturer Lineup, Fall Semester:
Rick Poynor, British design critic and curator: Curating “Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design”
Daniel D’Oca, Georgeen Theodore and Tobias Armborst, co-founders of Interboro, “Advocacy and Pluralism in Architecture”
Steven Heller, co-founder, MFA Design Criticism Department and co-chair, MFA Design Department, “Born Modern: Alvin Lustig, Designer”
Felicity D. Scott, Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University: ”Non-Communication: Bernard Rudofsky and the Empire of Signs.”
Christopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic for Los Angeles Times: Writing about Architecture in Newspapers
Mark Lamster, author and critic, “How to Write a Book”
Pilar Viladas, Design Editor, T: The New York Times Style Magazine: The Subtle Art of Design Editing
Lawrence Weschler, author and director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU: “Towards a Typology of Convergences”
Peter Hall, design critic, and senior lecturer in design at the University of Texas at Austin: On Mapping
For a full list of past lecturers and videos of the talks visit our past events page.
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