A lecture from Andrew King, Gerald Sheff visiting professor in Architecture at McGill, 2012. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.
A lecture from Luc Courchesne, professor at Université de Montréal and director of Metalab, Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.
Barbara Imhof (Liquifer Systems Group, Vienna) discusses the past and future of architecture in outer space, and the challenges and opportunities of human habitation outside the Earth’s atmosphere.
Wes Jones and his colleagues take on the challenge of “making environmentalism the boss” by considering the isolating and alienating effect of technology on our relationship with the environment.
Paula Meijerink is the 2011 Gerald Sheff Visiting professor at McGill. She is a landscape architecture from the Netherlands and a founding principle of WANTED, a landscape group. This lecture "Nature's A Bitch" is about the complex and often co
Gregory Henriquez is from Vancouver, and he studied architecture at Carlton and then McGill under Alberto Pérez-Gómez. This lecture "Vancouver: Resort City?" is about work that focuses on housing and mixed-use development–specifically in Vancou
Since 2001, Lawrence Scarpa's firm Pugh + Scarpa has won many awards, most recently the AIA firm of the year award. Their work is a combination of fun, innovation, and social awareness. They are material groundbreakers, using objects such as pi
Joern Siebke is an architectural lighting designer from Germany, practicing in NYC with Arc Light Design. His background is in landscape architecture and cinema. This lecture "Translight: lighting the transition" examines the confluence of poli
Born in Tokyo Japan, Shigeru Ban has called himself an "accidental environmentalist" and his architecture is well known for its innovative use of materials such as paper, cardboard, shipping containers and even beer crates. This lecture outline
The Gerald Sheff Visiting Professors in Architecture for the Winter 2010 term, from Saint John, NB, on their route from architecture school to private practice.
The principal of Werner Sobek Engineering & Design (Stuttgart & Chicago) delivers the Steel Structures Education Foundation lecture on "Sketches for the Future: Structure, Design, Ecology - A Constructive Dialogue."
McGill Architecture professor Ricardo L. Castro lectures on the late Colombian architect Salmona to mark the publication of "Rogelio Salmona: A Tribute."
In this lecture, Gerald W. Billes speaks about the role that his firm, Billes Architecture, had in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
Torben Berns received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2002 and has lived and practiced in Japan and North America. In this lecture, he talks about the importance of surfaces and images in architecture.
In this lecture, Brian Healy talks about some of the work he's done with his architectural firm, the difficulties of building on certain terrains, and the architecture of commonplaces.