CAPLA Lecture Series

CAPLA Building evening

Join us for the CAPLA Lecture Series, which combines college-wide events as well as lectures sponsored by the School of Architecture and School of Landscape Architecture and Planning.


Archived Lectures

2024

DATE LECTURE VIEW
September 18, 2024 Demystifying Creativity: Lecture by Luis Ibarra, Ibarra Rosano Design Architects VIEW RECAP AND LECTURE
April 15, 2024 The Architectural League of New York | Lecture by Jacob Moore View Recap and Lecture
March 15, 2024 Sonoran Desert Bees: Nesting Requirements & Husbandry Methods| Lecture by Stephen Buchmann View Recap and Lecture
February 16, 2024 Automobile Supremacism | Lecture by Teo Wickland View Recap and Lecture
January 31, 2024 Chasing Architecture in the Colorado River Watershed | Lecture by Jones Studio View Recap and Lecture

2023

DATE LECTURE VIEW
October 16, 2023 Visuality and the Sublime: Three Views of Mt. Hood | Lecture by Mark Eischeid View Recap and Lecture
September 21, 2023 System Dynamic Modeling for Sustainable Urban Planning & Developments | Lecture by Hamid Mostofi View Recap and Lecture
April 21, 2023 Roadways for People: Building Safe, Just and Affordable Communities | Lecture by Lynn Peterson, Oregon Metro Council View Recap and Lecture
March 31, 2023 Marginalized Edge Effect: Ecology, Urban Waterfront and Landscapes | Lecture by Tao Zhang View Recap and Lecture
March 22, 2023 Rio Nuevo: Catalyst for Tucson's Urban Core | Lecture by Fletcher McCusker View Recap and Lecture
March 17, 2023 Built Form: Observation, Association and Transformation | Lecture by Greg Faulkner View Recap and Lecture
March 17, 2023 Equity in Project Prioritization and Planning at State and Regional Transportation Agencies | Lecture by Jesus M. Barajas View Recap and Lecture
February 24, 2023 Determinants of Sustainability Mobility Patterns Among Older Adults | Lecture by Gulsah Akar View Recap and Lecture

2022

DATE LECTURE VIEW
November 18, 2022 The Tectonics of Place: Manuel Cervantes Céspedes View Recap and Lecture
November 18, 2022 Working with Communities to Built Environmental and Societal Resilience: Sharon Collinge View Recap and Lecture
November 2, 2022 Architecture's Other Agencies: Spatial Practice and New Vernaculars: Mason White and Lola Sheppard, Lateral Office View Recap and Lecture
October 26, 2022 A Retrofitting Suburbia Agenda for Equity, Health and Resilience to Climate Change: June Williamson View Recap and Lecture
October 3, 2022 Walking the Unwalkable City: An Exploration of Walking Conditions, Experiences and Interventions in the Global South: Seth Okyere View Recap and Lecture
April 6, 2022 Extraordinary Mechanics & Structural Innovation in Architecture: Sigrid Adriaenssens View Recap and Lecture
April 1, 2022

Cultivating Science, Justice and Action Through Participatory Research Methods: Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta

View Recap and Lecture
March 30, 2022 Vann Molyvann: Štefan Tkáč View Recap and Lecture
March 23, 2022 The Criticality of Context: Centering the Sociocultural in Planning and Urban Design Practice: Arlie Adkins View Recap and Lecture
Feb. 21, 2022 Natural Light: The Architecture of Donald Judd: Urs Peter Flueckiger View Recap and Lecture
Feb. 18, 2022 Navigating Differential Privacy in Decennial Census Data: Jason Jurjevich View Recap and Lecture
Feb. 16, 2022 An Architect's Laboratory: The Early Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright: Lisa Schrenk View Recap and Lecture
Feb. 7, 2022 Can We Forget? A Memorial to Enslaved Laborers: Mabel O. Wilson View Recap and Lecture
Jan. 31, 2022 Infrastructural Opportunism, Infrastructural Urbanism, Infrastructural Optimism: Linda C. Samuels View Recap and Lecture

2021

DATE LECTURE VIEW
Nov. 12, 2021 2021 Stahl Lecture No. 2: Image, Chant and Imagination at Ste. Foy in Conques: Bissera Pentcheva View Recap and Lecture
Nov. 8, 2021 2021 Stahl Lecture No. 1: Eternal Victory: Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Vision of Empire: Bissera Pentcheva View Recap and Lecture
Nov. 3, 2021

Civic Expression: Art, Culture and the Built Environment in Little Tokyo: Jonathan Jae-an Crisman

View Recap and Lecture
Oct. 27, 2021 Justice is Beauty: Alan Ricks View Lecture
Oct. 22, 2021 A Photovoltaic Green Roof: Kirk Dimond View Recap and Lecture
Oct. 8, 2021 Designing Food Systems in an Urban Desert: Courtney Crosson View Recap and Lecture
Sept. 29, 2021 Something from Nothing: Rozana Montiel View Lecture
Sept. 23, 2021 Urban Design with Nature—Exploring Sustainable Urban Development in China: Jie Hu View Recap and Lecture
Apr. 9, 2021 Research Redux: ARCC 2021 Keynote Address by Michelle Addington View Keynote Address
Apr. 8, 2021 Political Production/Architectural Performance: ARCC 2021 Keynote Address by Peggy Deamer View Keynote Address
Mar. 17, 2021 Welcome to the Age of Climate Action: Richard Johnson View Recap and Lecture
Feb. 19, 2021 Synergies between Research, Practice and Education in Health and the Built Environment: Altaf Engineer View Recap and Lecture
Jan. 22, 2021 Ubiquitously Incremental and Pernicious: The Dynamic Role of Parking Supply in Increasing Vehicle Use: Kristina M. Currans View Recap and Lecture

2020

DATE LECTURE VIEW
Nov. 13, 2020 Planning to Achieve Carbon Neutrality: A Story from Ann Arbor's Goal of Becoming Carbon Neutral by 2030: Missy Stults View Recap and Lecture
Nov. 6, 2020 Designing for Market Transformation: Jonathan Bean View Recap and Lecture
Oct. 23, 2020 The Practice of Equitable Planning: Tamika L. Butler View Recap and Lecture
Oct. 12, 2020 Ensuring Equity and Building Community: Kendra Hyson '15 MLA View Recap and Lecture
Oct. 2, 2020 Rendering Sensible (In)Visibilities Around Architectures of Internment: Beth M Weinstein View Recap and Lecture
Sept. 25, 2020 Lessons from a Career Rover: Brandon Herman '12 MS Planning '14 MLA View Recap and Lecture
Sept. 4, 2020 Architecture, Ecology and Appearance: Kiel Moe View Recap and Lecture