Symposium honors former dean
On Saturday, October 17, the School of Architecture will convene a symposium in honor of former dean Robert A. M. Stern ’65MArch (1939–2025). “Putting Architecture in Its Place: Robert A. M. Stern and His Scholarship” will reflect on Stern’s prolific scholarly output, reverence for history, and legacy as a devoted educator. This symposium is organized by Edward P. Bass Dean and J. M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture Deborah Berke and Leopoldo Villardi, and, in the spirit of the titular architect, it brings together historians, educators, and practitioners. Participants include Barry Bergdoll, Joe Day ’89, Melissa DelVecchio ’98MArch, Kyle Dugdale ’15PhD, Mark Foster Gage ’01MArch, Sam Jacob, Níall McLaughlin, Mary McLeod, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen ’94MEnvD, M. Surry Schlabs ’99, ’03MArch, ’17PhD, Robert Simonson, Jennifer Stone, A. Krista Sykes, Leopoldo Villardi, and Graham Wyatt.
Building with a world-ecology
“World-Ecology in Formation,” a symposium on October 29–31, is organized by assistant professor Mae-Ling Lokko and the Center for Ecosystems in Architecture. Engaging contemporary framings of our climate and economic crises, the symposium considers the social and environmental dialectics that have given rise to both historical and emerging 21st-century built cultures, including material ecologies, building technologies, energy regimes, landscapes, waterscapes, atmospheres, labor systems, and data infrastructures. Departing from a dual framing of human and nonhuman systems as discrete processes, the symposium investigates the complex internalization and externalization of socioecological transformations within contemporary built ecologies as active constituents in shaping each other. By framing “world-ecology” as a system in formation, the symposium engages how transdisciplinary and cross-cultural socioecological concepts are deconstructing, enriching, and reconstituting the fundamentals of future design.
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