Episodes
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Andrew King: Gerald Sheff Lecture, Winter 2012
A lecture from Andrew King, Gerald Sheff visiting professor in Architecture at McGill, 2012. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.
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David Scott: Supertall and Superfast: Design and Construction Challenges in Steel
A lecture from David Scott, Principal, Arup. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.
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Luc Courchesne: You Are Here
A lecture from Luc Courchesne, professor at Université de Montréal and director of Metalab, Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.
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Alessandra Ponte: Journey to the North of Quebec: Understanding (McLuhan’s) Media
A lecture from Alessandra Ponte, professor at Université de Montréal. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.
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Barbara Imhof: Architecture beyond the Earth’s horizon
Barbara Imhof (Liquifer Systems Group, Vienna) discusses the past and future of architecture in outer space, and the challenges and opportunities of human habitation outside the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Wes Jones: SouperGreen
Wes Jones and his colleagues take on the challenge of “making environmentalism the boss” by considering the isolating and alienating effect of technology on our relationship with the environment.
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Nature’s A Bitch
Paula Meijerink is the 2011 Gerald Sheff Visiting professor at McGill. She is a landscape architecture from the Netherlands and a founding principle of WANTED, a landscape group. This lecture “Nature’s A Bitch” is about the complex and often contradictory role of nature in the built environment,...
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The Inclusive City
Gregory Henriquez is from Vancouver, and he studied architecture at Carleton and then McGill under Alberto Pérez-Gómez. This lecture “Vancouver: Resort City?” is about work that focuses on housing and mixed-use development–specifically in Vancouver–and all of the ethical, social and economic…
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Ordinary and Extraordinary
Since 2001, Lawrence Scarpa’s firm Pugh + Scarpa has won many awards, most recently the AIA firm of the year award. Their work is a combination of fun, innovation, and social awareness. They are material groundbreakers, using objects such as ping pong balls, broom bristles, shrink wrap and dixie...
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transLIGHT – Lighting the Transition
Joern Siebke is an architectural lighting designer from Germany, practicing in NYC with Arc Light Design. His background is in landscape architecture and cinema. This lecture “Translight: lighting the transition” examines the confluence of political agendas, corporate interests and public…
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Works and Humanitarian Activities
Born in Tokyo Japan, Shigeru Ban has called himself an “accidental environmentalist” and his architecture is well known for its innovative use of materials such as paper, cardboard, shipping containers and even beer crates. This lecture outlines some of Shigeru Ban’s work, as well as some of his...
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It’s not what you say
Monica Adair and Stephen Kopp, Gerald Sheff Visiting Professors in Architecture for the Winter 2010 term, from Saint John, NB, on their route from architecture school to private practice.
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Work Between Art and Architecture
Dan Graham, a New York City artist who delves primarily in hybridization, in “Work Between Art and Architecture” on his sculptures installed across the globe.
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Sketches for the Future
The principal of Werner Sobek Engineering & Design (Stuttgart & Chicago) delivers the Steel Structures Education Foundation lecture on “Sketches for the Future: Structure, Design, Ecology – A Constructive Dialogue.”
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Rogelio Salmona: A Tribute
In this talk, Ricardo Castro speaks in tribute to world-renowned Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona. Castro’s focus of research and field-work address the idea of mnemonic and systemic thinking, coupled with the concept of limit in the development of urban topographies and architectural space in...
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The Rebuilding of New Orleans
In this lecture, Gerald W. Billes speaks about the role that his firm, Billes Architecture, had in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
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Surface Image
Torben Berns received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2002 and has lived and practiced in Japan and North America, having been a Japanese Ministry of Culture Monbushou scholar at Kyoto University and run his own atelier in Osaka. In this lecture, he talks about the importance of surfaces and...
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Commonplaces
Brian Healy was educated at the Pennsylvania State University and the Yale School of Architecture where he was editor the architectural journal. In this lecture he talks about some of the work he’s done with his architectural firm, Brian Healy Architects and the architecture of commonplaces.
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