The Department of Architecture has a long history of bringing lecturers to RISD, sometimes in conjunction with the Departments of Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture. This collection represents those fall and spring lectures, 1994-2007, known to have been recorded and transferred to the Archives. Held in the Bayard Ewing Building, the lectures feature primarily architects and landscape architects. The quality of the recordings is, for the most part, good with occasional lighting and sound issues. The lectures include slide shows illustrating projects designed or built by the lecturer.
This digital preservation project was made possible in part by a Libraries of Rhode Island (LORI) grant from the RI Office of Library & Information Services using funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The project has also been made possible by the support of RISD's Office of Research & Strategic Partnerships.
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Architecture Lecture | Bryan Kuth and Elizabeth Ranieri, April 29, 1999
Bryan Kuth, Elizabeth Ranieri, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
San Francisco architects Bryan Kuth and Elizabeth Ranieri, both RISD '85 BFA Arch and '86 BArch, discuss projects designed by their firm including the LEF offices, "The Body in Repose" museum installation, and the Lodi Bunkhouse.
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Architecture Lecture | Anita Berrizbeitia, April 15, 1999
Anita Berrizbeitia, Landscape Architecture Department, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Landscape Architect Anita Berrizbeitia discusses the design and creation of the Caracas, Venezuela Parque del Este by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, 1956-1961.
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Architecture Lecture | Friedrich St. Florian, April 8, 1999
Friedrich St. Florian, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect and former RISD Professor Friedrich St. Florian offers a behind the scenes discussion of the development of his proposal for the National World War Two Memorial located in Washington D.C. He describes the history of the site on the Mall and previous master plans, particularly the McMillan Plan. St. Florian begins the lecture with a discussion of modernism and American architecture iconography using the statues in front of the federal building in Providence, RI. See also: tapes 2002_66_15 & 16: WWII Memorial Competition: A Symposium
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Architecture Lecture | Allen S. Weiss, March 11, 1999
Allen S. Weiss, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
New York University Professor Allen S. Weiss discusses two festivals held in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles in 1668 and 1674, describes the development of French cuisine, and explores Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and the aesthetics of intoxication.
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Architecture Lecture | Will Alsop, March 6, 1999
Will Alsop, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
British architect Will Aslop discusses the development of projects including the Peckham Library, The Public, West Bromwitch, England, The Centre, Almere, Netherlands, and the North Greenwich Peninsula Metro Station, London.
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Architecture Lecture | Stanley Saitowitz, March 4, 1999
Stanley Saitowitz, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Stanley Saitowitz discusses architecture as a "tool of transformation" illustrated by housing design in California, Mill Race Park, Columbus, IN, the Embarcadero Ribbon, San Francisco, and the New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston.
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Architecture Lecture | Manuel Baez, November 12, 1998
Manuel Baez, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Professor Manuel Baez, Cooper Union, discussed the "Metamorphosis of the Butterfly Effect." His talk ranged from the influence of Greek theater to the works of Italo Calvino, particularly "Mr. Palomar" and "Invisible Cities."The later influenced his "The Intermingling" project. He closed with a video of Richard Feynman, which ends abruptly.
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Architecture Lecture | Walter Hood, November 5, 1998
Walter Hood, Landscape Architecture Department, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Landscape Architect Walter Hood, UC-Berkeley, discusses three projects: Lafayette Square Park, Oakland, CA; Macon Yards, Macon GA; and Cortland Creek, Oakland, CA.
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Architecture Lecture | James Glymph, October 28, 1998
James Glymph, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
James Glymph discusses projects designed by Frank Gehry and Associates including the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the American Center, Paris, and Barcelona Fish. Topics include Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, negative spaces, and compound bent forms.
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Architecture Lecture | Cornelia Oberlander, October 22, 1998
Cornelia Oberlander, Landscape Architecture Department, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Landscape Architect Cornelia Oberlander discussed the concept of an ecologically balanced and sustainable landscape. She illustrated her lecture with images of her projects including the Smith College master plan and several located in Vancouver.
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Architecture Lecture | Dennis Playdon, October 15, 1998
Dennis Playdon, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect and Professor Dennis Playdon gave a lecture titled "Drawing and Geometry: The Architecture of 17th Century Rome" richly illustrated with drawings, plans, and photographs. He taught in the RISD Department of Architecture, 1998-1999.
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Architecture Lecture | Peter Higgins, October 1, 1998
Peter Higgins, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Peter Higgins, Land Design Studio, Ltd, London, discussed the concepts of storytelling and cross-disciplines using design projects as examples. He included set design, the Imperial War Museum's 1996 Secret War exhibition, the National Maritime Museum, Falmouth, England, The Museum of Islamic Arts, Doha , Qatar with James Wines, and the London's Millennium Dome.
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Architecture Lecture | Hugh Hardy, May 5, 1998
Hugh Hardy, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Hugh Hardy, Honorary Degree RISD '98, discussed the state of architecture education in 1954 as well as critiquing several buildings including several his projects. Among them the Getty Center, the Rainbow Bridge, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the New York City 42nd Street theater district. He described restoration as an act of interpretation using several of his projects as examples.
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Architecture Lecture | Jorge Francisco Liernur, April 23, 1998
Jorge Francisco Liernur, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Jorge Francisco Liernur discussed the design and construction of the Bank of London and South America building located in Buenos Aires. The bank held a competition in 1960 with architect Clorinda Testa's design completed in 1966.
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Architecture Lecture | Nader Tehrani, April 21, 1998
Nader Tehrani, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Nader Tehrani discussed the design, creation, and installation of a work by Office dA installed at the Museum of Modern Art for the exhibition "Fabrications: The Tectonic Garden" held in 1998. Organized by Terrence Riley, the exhibition addressed the concept of precision.
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Architecture Lecture | Jeanne Giordano, April 16, 1998
Jeanne Giordano, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Jeanne Giordano, former Director of Grand Central Station's Development Office, described the development, use, decline, and renovation of New York City's Grand Central Station. She closed her lecture with a discussion of the redevelopment of the pedestrian passageways located in the Times Square district.
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Architecture Lecture | Mark Mack, April 9, 1998
Mark Mack, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Professor and architect Mark Mack gave the 1998 Colin Shoemaker Memorial lecture, "Easy Living." He presented an extensive slideshow of his work, primarily California residences.
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Architecture Lecture | Graham Morrison, March 12, 1998
Graham Morrison, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Graham Morrison provides a survey of architectural facades, primarily Italian, followed by a discussion of projects created by his firm Allies and Morrison. Projects include "The Mound" in Edinburgh, the British Embassy, Dublin, and the Hayward Gallery, London.
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Architecture Lecture | Leo Marx, March 5, 1998
Leo Marx, Landscape Architecture Department, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Professor of History Leo Marx (MIT) spoke about landscape and post-modernity with topics including The Great Gatsby, the myth of American origins, pastoralism, progressivism, and primitivism, wilderness, and Bill McKibben's The End of Nature.
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Architecture Lecture | Imro Vasko, February 4, 1998
Imro Vasko, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Wintersession Visiting Architecture Professor Imro Vasko described a survey of the development of architecture in Slovakia and discussed his experiences as an architect.
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Architecture Lecture | Mario Gandelsonas, November 13, 1997
Mario Gandelsonas, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Mario Gandelsonas discussed the influence of Alberti's De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building), the development of American cities, Duchamp, and several of his projects. They include Goose Island, Chicago; China Basin, San Francisco; Melrose Community Center, NYC; House on Sag Pond, NY; and Xujiahui, Shanghai.
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Architecture Lecture | Marc Treib, November 6, 1997
Marc Treib, Landscape Architecture Department, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architecture Professor Marc Treib discussed late 19th and 20th century Japanese landscape architecture, "Garden Design and Space." He featured the work of Sutemi Horiguchi, Mirei Shigemori, Kinsaku Nakane, Isamu Noguchi, and Kenzo Tange.
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Architecture Lecture | Ann Pendleton-Jullian, October 30, 1997
Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Ann Pendleton-Jullian discusses the development of the Open City, Ritoque, Chile. She describes the formation of the Architecture School of Valparaiso led by Alberto Cruz, its influence on the Open City, the importance of poetry, and the 1965 poem Amereida.
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Architecture Lecture | Richard Murphy, October 16, 1997
Richard Murphy, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Richard Murphy describes several of his house renovation projects, primarily in Edinburgh, in his lecture "In It's Time, In It's Place." Other projects include an Edinburgh art gallery, the Glasgow Post Office Building Art gallery, and the Dundee Contemporary Arts.
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Architecture Lecture | Ralph Lieberman, October 9, 1997
Ralph Lieberman, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Ralph Lieberman, Art Historian and Photographer, discussed photography and art representation.Topics included Clarence Kennedy, John Pope-Hennessey, Ezra Stoller, and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc sculpture.
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Architecture Lecture | Michael Sorkin, September 25, 1997
Michael Sorkin, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Michael Sorkin discussed several of he projects undertaken by the Michael Sorkin Studio. Projects include Weed, Arizona; Godzilla, Tokyo; Governor Island, NYC; EuRomania, Bucharest; Souks of Beirut; and Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles.
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Architecture Lecture | Wellington Reiter, May 15, 1997
Wellington Reiter, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Wellington Reiter discussed projects undertaken by his Urban Instruments, Inc. as well Boston's Harbor Islands and Central Artery, New York City, Robert Moses, and the World's Fair, and his proposed redesign of MIT's Building 7.
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Architecture Lecture | Francisco Mangado, April 24, 1997
Francisco Mangado, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Francisco Mangado discusses several of his projects including the Marco Real Winery, Olite, Spain.
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Architecture Lecture | Christian Zapatka, March 20, 1997
Christian Zapatka, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Christian Zapatka discusses his Princeton master's thesis and provides a chapter by chapter exploration of his book The American Landscape. His lecture includes an extensive slide show documenting the development of American city parks.
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Architecture Lecture | Nader Tehrani, November 21, 1996
Nader Tehrani, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
RISD Alumnus Nader Tehrani (BFA '85, BARC '86) and former faculty member discussed materials, methods, clients, and the work of his firm Office d'A, which designed the Fleet Library at RISD.
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Architecture Lecture | Scott Cohen, October 24, 1996
Scott Cohen, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
RISD alumnus Preston Scott Cohen (BFA '82, BARC '83) and former visiting faculty member discussed the "language of architecture." The vocals drop out on occasion and may be hard to hear.
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Architecture Lecture | Mirko Zardini, October 17, 1996
Mirko Zardini, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Mirko Zardini discusses the "problem of the skin," the issue of building facades. Video is date stamped.
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Architecture Lecture | George Baird, Fall, 1996
Gerorge Baird, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
George Baird discusses the ideas of publicness and the "Space of Appearance," a concept introduced by Hannah Arendt who influenced his work.
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Architecture Lecture | Rodolphe El-Khoury, Spring, 1995
Rodolphe El-Khoury, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Rodolphe El-Khoury, RISD '85 BFA, '86 BARC, discusses architecture and the impact of turn of the century collages and montages among other issues while presenting an extensive slide show.
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Architecture Lecture | Sheila Kennedy, Spring, 1995
Sheila Kennedy, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Architect Sheila Kennedy discusses invention, infrastructure, and material predicament while showing slides of projects and architectural objects. She discusses Kennedy & Violich Architecture's project associated with the Central Artery, 1993-1994.
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Architecture Lecture | Rafael Moneo, Spring, 1995
Rafael Moneo, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Rafael Moneo discusses three of his designs: Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium; Davis Museum, Wellesley College; and Miro Mallorca Foundation, Moneo Building.
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Architecture Lecture | Bernard Tschumi, November 3, 1994
Bernard Tschumi, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Bernard Tschumi gave the Colin Shoemaker Memorial Lecture in the RISD auditorium. He spoke on "Architecture and Event," the title of his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, 1994 April 21-July 5. He displays numerous architectural drawings and models of architectural projects.
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Architecture Lecture | Robert Slutzky, October 30, 1994
Robert Slutzky, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Robert Slutzky discussed his early works and a 1987-1988 Switzerland project on color as a generator of architectural form.
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Architecture Lecture | Homa Fardjadi, Fall, 1994
Homa Fardjadi, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
A lecture by Harvard University. Graduate School of Design faculty Homa Fardjadi with slides.
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Architecture Lecture | K. Michael Hays, Fall, 1994
K. Michael Hays, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Former RISD faculty K. Michael Hays discusses invention, modernism, and architecture by surveying the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Subjects include his model for a "Second Scheme for a Glass Skyscraper" (1922).
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Architecture Lecture | Nasrine Seraji, Fall, 1994
Nasrine Seraji, Architecture Department, and RISD Archives
Nasrine Seraji discusses invention, creativity, and three of her projects: Temporary American Center in Paris; Foyer Competition; and Housing-Sarcelles. Concepts discussed include constructed void, found space, lost void, and political void.