School of Architecture Alumni Gathering April 3rd, 2008
Architecture In "The News" Keynote Speaker: John Gallagher - Detroit Free Press
6:00pm in the School of Architecture 
Catering compliments of Chef Jeff
Please RSVP to Elly Gravelle at 313.993.1532 or gravelle@udmercy.edu

THE UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE IS

PLEASED TO PRESENT THIS YEARS FUNDED LECTURE SERIES

ENTITLED, “ACCENTS | A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE” ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AMY GREEN DEINES

CHAIR, LECTURE SERIES

deinesag@udmercy.edu

2007 - 08 Lecture Series

SAMUEL ASSEFFA, NOVEMBER 28

“Green Urbanism” | Leed Ap, Deputy Commissioner, Urban Design And Planning,

Chicago Department Of Planning And Development, Chicago, USA

Samuel Assefa is the new Director of Policy for the Department of Planning and Development charged with advancing Mayor Richard M. Daley’s vision of making Chicago Americas most livable city. In this position, he coordinates policies on land development, architecture, urban design, and sustainable development. Previously, he served as deputy chief of staff to Mayor Daley, and as head of urban design and interim head of the Zoning and Land Use Division at DPD.

LISA KROHN, JANUARY 23

“Form with Content” | Krohn Design - Industrial Designer

Los Angeles, USA

Lisa Krohn, is the creative director and visionary behind Krohn Design. Her approach to the process is broad, and reflects her belief that the best ideas are hybrids of several different fields. Combining elements from art history and architecture, Lisa plays with forms and ideas until they disintegrate only to recombine as something completely original. Influenced by a fascination with peoples’ relationships with technology, her work simultaneously demonstrates desire to replicate organic solutions found in nature.

PIERRE BELANGER, FEBRUARY 6

“Landscape As Infrastructure” University Of Toronto,

Co-chair Center For Landscape Research Toronto, Canada

Pierre Bélanger is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design where he teaches graduate courses on landscape, infrastructure and design. Bélanger is also Co-Director of the Centre for Landscape Research at the University of Toronto. The Centre works collaboratively with public authorities, industrial enterprises and private stakeholders towards the redevelopment of brownfields in the Great Lakes and the Arctic Regions. Bélanger’s field work involves research and development of landscape infrastructure strategies that address the complexity of contaminated sites.

MAURIZIO SABINI, FEBRUARY 27

“Getting Ready For 2010” | Phd, Associate Professor, Chair, Kent State University

College Of Architecture + Environmental Design, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Maurizio Sabini has written extensively on theoretical issues in twentieth-century architecture, particularly on the work of Louis I. Kahn. He is also the Italian translator of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas. As a practitioner, he has been involved in a wide range of projects in Italy, Kenya and Austria. He has supervised a number of service learning projects through the CUDC, including the Orchard School Playground Conversion and charrettes for Poland. Maurizio received his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the Istituto Unversitario di Architettura di Venezia and an M.Arch. from SUNY Buffalo.

WILL ALSOP, MARCH 19 + 20

“Progress Check” | Alsop And Stormer, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Moscow

+ Toronto March 19, Will Alsop Panel Discussion and Reception, To be Determined

March 20, “Progress Check” Lecture at 7:00 pm with a reception to follow

Lawrence Technological University, College of Architecture and Design Auditorium, A-200

21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, 1.800.CALL.LTU

Will Alsop was born in Northampton in 1947. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in the 1960s and, with fellow student John Lyall, he established Alsop & Lyall in 1981. Jan Stormer joined later, and upon the departure of Lyall, the practice was renamed Alsop & Stormer in 1991. The firm has offices in London, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Moscow. Because of his avant-garde and strikingly different buildings, Will Alsop has always been considered something of a maverick in the British architectural scene. Until recently, nearly all his big commissions were in Europe, with his most famous British effort being the Peckham Library and Media Centre, which won the Stirling Prize in 2000. Alsop has always had more success gaining commissions on mainland Europe than in his native (and perhaps more conservative) homeland