TALKS

“Invention of a Metropolitan Architecture: From the Existing City to Interior Urbanism” lecture at the Bauhaus Dessau Conference Hilberseimer – Infrastructures of Modernity, October 28, 2021.

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“Urban Optics and the Specter of a Beautiful Metropolis (II)” Public Lecture at the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 15, 2019.

Lecture on the “Urban Optics and the Specter of a Beautiful Metropolis (I)” at the Bauhaus Beyond Borders conference at Northwestern University, Chicago, April 5-7, 2019.

Remarks at book launch of Bowling by UrbanLab, UIC Architecture, December 11, 2018.

Keynote, “Architecture of an Accelerated Metropolis,” for the conference “Chicago Schools: Authors, Audiences, Histories” at  IIT’s Crown Hall, Chicago, November 18, 2017, 3:30pm.

Lecture, “In Pursuit of an Architectural Urbanism,” at GSAPP Columbia University, New York, February 15, 2017, 3 pm.

Lecture, “The City as Visionary Project,” to the Urban Design Program at the Taubman College, University of Michigan, February 3, 2017, 6pm.

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Lecture, “In Pursuit of an Architectural Urbanism,” at KU Leuven Campus Sint-Lucas, Brussels, Belgium, October 10, 2016, 6:30pm.

Talk “City as Laboratory” and roundtable discussion on “Chicago’s Global History,” Cultural Center of Chicago, 78 E. Washington, October 16, 2015, 6pm.

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“When You’re Having More Than One,” Roundtable discussion on design criticism, IIT, Crown Hall, October 3, 2015, 6-7:30pm.

Keynote at the “After Empirical Urbanism” symposium, University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, March 1, 2015, 1:30pm.

“The Export of Metropolitan Architecture” lecture at the AA in London, UK (10/28), the University of Kent, UK (10/29), Hochparterre in Zürich, CH (10/30), the OfficeUS at the Venice Biennale, IT (10/31), and Pro qm in Berlin, DE (11/03).

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“A New Visionary;” lecture at the “Instruments for Urban Production” symposium in conjunction with the book launch of The Petropolis of Tomorrow and hosted at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, April 25, 2014, 6pm.

“The New Visionary,” a talk at the Opening Keynote Session at the AIAS Forum in Chicago: “Prospects for an Evolving Profession,” Fairmont Chicago, December 30, 2013, 4pm.

Lecture on “Chicagoism” at Mies’ IIT Crown Hall, October 25, 2013, 12:30pm.

Invited speaker at the National Conference of the American Planning Association, Chicago, April 15, 2013 [a talk, intended as a provocation to planning].

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Keynote lecture at the Manufactured Landscapes conference, Chicago, May 19, 2012.

Public lecture at The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, February 7, 2012.

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“CHI·CA·GO·ISM (SHÏ-KÄ’GO´IZƏM)” Public lecture at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago, November 2, 2011.

“Urbanisms and Other Urban Practices,” lecture at Symposium on Architectural and Urban History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (organized by Robert Bruegmann), October 28, 2011.

“Informal City – Forms of Architecture,” lecture for the evening lecture series at the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington, October 12, 2011.

“Informal {=Without Format} Cities,” lecture hosted by the Center for Architecture in Philadelphia, April 15, 2011.

“The Pleasure of Shopping and Other Misdeeds: Wertheim’s Pandemonium of Traffic and Goods,” lecture at Between Experience and Representation: Cities in an Area of Tension, international conference, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Holland, March 10, 2011 (presented in absence).

Round table participant on “New Research,” Northwestern University, Chicago, December 3, 2010 (other participants: Barry Bergdoll, Andreas Beyer, Neil Levine, Martin Bressani, Robert Bruegmann, and Harry Mallgrave; organized by David Van Zanten).

“Stranger Than Fiction,” lecture at the Once Upon a Place – International Conference on Architecture and Fiction, at the occasion of the Lisbon Triennial of Architecture, Lisbon, Portugal, October 12, 2010.

“Theorien der Raumanschauung und die Entstehung einer neuen Metropole,” lecture at the August Endell: Die Berliner Jahre, Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut, April 24, 2010. (cited in Matthias Schirren’s article “Freiheit und Ordnung: Der Philharmonie Osteingang,” Catalog on Scharoun’s Philharmonie, 2011).

“Forms of Practice,” lecture at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, on the work of Studio Offshore, July 7, 2009.

“From Urban Formlessness to Informal Practices: Berlin, Tokyo, Lagos,” lecture at the Informal Cities Conference, Royal University College of Fine Arts Stockholm, Sweden, September 6, 2008.

“Shopping for a Metropolitan Architecture: Early Commercial Buildings in Modern Berlin,” lecture at the SAH Annual Meeting (panel: The Limits of Community), Cincinnati, OH, April 24, 2008.

“Tricksters of Modernity: Autodidactic Appropriations in Architectural Visions of the Metropolis,” lecture at the SAH Annual Meeting (panel: Creative Misreading), Pittsburgh, PA, April 9, 2007.

“Architecture in Search for a Language of Urban Resistance,” lecture at the Spiegel Symposium, structured around an exhibition of Barry Le Va, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia, PA, March 17-18, 2005 (speakers included David Lewis and Mark Wasiuta, moderated by Detlef Mertins; with keynote lectures by Greil Marcus and Barry Le Va).