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Lecture series
Each year, we organize a lecture series that brings notable practitioners and academics from around the world to Vancouver.
Fall 2017 lecture series
Click the poster image to download a PDF version.
To see listings for each lecture, visit our events page. All events are free, although some may be ticketed.
Past speakers
Spring 2017
Leila Araghian
Diba Tensile Architecture, Tehran
Anthony Acciavatti
Columbia University and Somatic Collaborative, New York
Günther Vogt
Vogt Landscape Architects, Zurich
Zita Cobb
Shorefast Foundation, Fogo Island
Aneerudha Paul
Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai
Sara Stevens
UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
Sylvia McAdam
Idle No More
John Ochsendorf
MIT and Ochsendorf DeJong & Block, Cambridge
Fall 2016
Louis Benech
Paris, France
Kate Orff
Scape and Columbia University, New York
Ole Scheeren
Büro Ole Scheeren, Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, and Bangkok
Spring 2016
Frank Barkow
Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
Chris Cornelius
Studio Indigenous and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Janette Kim + Erik Carver
All of the Above + Erik Carver Design, New York
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Vancouver
Georgeen Theodore
Interboro, New York, and New Jersey Institute of Technology
Yusuke Obuchi
Studio Obuchi and University of Tokyo
Fall 2015
Pierre Belanger
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Hillary Brown
City University of New York
Susannah Drake
dlandstudio, Brooklyn
Keller Easterling
Yale University
Louisa Jones
Author and journalist, Provence, France
Piet Oudolf
Hummelo, Netherlands
Spring 2015
Amale Andraos
Columbia University and Work Architecture Company, New York
Vikram Bhatt
McGill University
Philippe Block
ETH Zurich
Mikyoung Kim
Mikyoung Kim Design, Boston
Christoph Reinhardt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jenny Sabin
Jenny Sabin Studio, Philadelphia, and Cornell University
Ron Williams
WAA and Landscape Architecture, Montreal
Fall 2014
Joyce Drohan
Perkins + Will, Vancouver
Harrison Fraker
University of California, Berkeley
Aaron Naparstek
Streetsblog, New York
Doug Sanders
Author and columnist
Rainer Schmidt
Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten, Munich, Germany
David Singleton
Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia
Spring 2014
Andreu Arriola + Carmen Fiol
Arriola & Fiol Architects, Barcelona, Spain
Julie Campoli
Terra Firma Urban Design, Burlington
Rahul Mehrotra
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cristina Moreno + Efren Grinda
AMID (Cero9) Architects, Madrid, Spain
Kim Smith + Bo Helliwell
Blue Sky Architecture, Vancouver
Bing Thom
Bing Thom Architects, Vancouver
Fall 2013
Annette Gigon
Gigon/Guyer, Zurich, Switzerland
Phyllis Lambert
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Gregg Pasquarelli
SHOP Architects, New York
Lola Sheppard
Lateral Office, Toronto
Greg Smallenberg, Kelty McKinnon, and Alia Johnson
PFS Studio, Vancouver
Thomas Woltz
Nelson Byrd Woltz, New York
Spring 2013
Julie Bargmann
DIRT Studio, New York
Marlon Blackwell
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Bernadette Blanchon
ENSP Versailles, France
Peter Busby
Perkins+Will, San Francisco
Peter Cardew
Peter Cardew Architects, Vancouver
Yung Ho Chang
Atelier FCJZ, China
Rania Ghosn
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Carol Mayer-Reed
Mayer/Reed, Portland
Eric Miller
University of Toronto
Aranzazu Rangel
muf architecture/art, London
Francois Roche
R&Sie(n), Paris and Bangkok
Cornelia Oberlander
Vancouver
Marc Treib
University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2012
Dominique Alba
APUR, Paris
Henri Bava
Agence TER, Paris
David Easton
Rammed Earth Works, Napa, California
Paul Fast
Fast + Epp, Vancouver
Sean Lally
Weathers and University of Illinois
Achim Menges
University of Stuttgart
Kim Nielsen and Kasper Guldager Jorgensen
GXN, Copenhagen
Peter Osler
Illinois Institute of Technology
Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer
HouMinn, Vancouver + Minneapolis
Adam Yarinsky
Architecture Research Office, New York
Lunchtime lectures
In addition to our formal lecture series, along with our student organizations, we also regularly coordinate informal lectures over the lunch hour. In these lectures, students, faculty members, prominent professionals passing through Vancouver without much advance notice, and local professionals have the opportunity to showcase projects and initiatives they are involved with.