Festschrift in Honor of
david leatherbarrow
Thursday May 19th and Friday May 20th
Presented by the Stuart Weitzman School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania, the Department of Architecture, and the PhD Program in Architecture.
(In person event to be held at the Fisher Fine Arts Library, 4th Floor - Kleinman Center Apse, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
Join the event on the Weitzman Live Stream - https://www.youtube.com/c/WeitzmanSchoolofDesignatPenn
CONSTRUCTIONS AND LOCATIONS
FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF
DAVID LEATHERBARROW
It is with much pleasure that the Weitzman School of Design invites you to a Festschrift in honor of Professor David Leatherbarrow, our colleague, teacher, and ACSA TOPAZ Medal winner (2020). Over two days, Constructions and Locations will celebrate many highlights of an illustrious career dedicated to architectural education and scholarship. It will offer participants many opportunities to share in each other’s company and to engage in spirited dialogue on the practice of architectural theory. Invited speakers include Joseph Rykwert, Carlos Eduardo Comas, John Dixon Hunt, Marion Weiss, James Corner, Billie Tsien, Grace La and others.
The Roots of Architectural Invention
PRogramme
Thursday, May 19
9:30am: Coffee reception
10:00am: Welcomes
Weitzman Dean Fritz Steiner, Architecture Chair Winka Dubbeldam, Graduate Group Chair Franca Trubiano
10:30am: Beginnings
Juan Manuel Heredia, Homa Farjadi and Joseph Rykwert
11:30am: Locations and Constructions_Today and Tomorrow 1
Esra Sahin Burat, Catherine Bonier, Jin Baek, Daniel Friedman
1:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm: Book Discussions – Constructions
John Dixon Hunt, Grace La, Mohsen Mostafavi, Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo, Richard Wesley
4:15pm: Roundtable Conversation
5.00pm: Reception (Architectural Archives)
6:00pm: Keynote Conversation
with architect Marion Weiss from Weiss Manfredi and landscape architect James Corner from Field Operations
Friday, May 20
9:30am: Coffee reception
10:00am: The Wandering Eye
with architect Billie Tsien of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
11:00am: Locations and Constructions_Today and Tomorrow 2
Duffy Half, Peter Laurence, Marcia Feuerstein, Tonkao Panin, Alex Eisenschmidt
12:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Book Discussions – Locations
Carlos Eduardo Comas, Peter Carl, Anne Beim, Franca Trubiano, Alberto Pérez Gómez
3:45pm: Roundtable Conversation
4:30pm: Coffee break
5:00pm: Closing Address _ David Leatherbarrow
6:00pm: Closing Reception
Speakers
Jin Baek, Seoul National University
Anne Beim, Royal Danish Academy
Catherine Bonier, Carleton University
William Braham, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Carl, London
Carlos Eduardo Comas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
James Corner, Field Operations
Alexander Eisenschmidt, University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Architecture
Homa Farjadi, University of Pennsylvania
Marcia Feuerstein, Virginia Tech
Kenneth Frampton, Columbia University
Daniel Friedman, University of Hawai’i
Duffy Half, Israel
Juan Manuel Heredia, Portland State University
John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Laurence, Clemson University
Tonkao Panin, Silpakorn University
Alberto Pérez-Gómez, McGill University
Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Mauricio Pezo, Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Joseph Rykwert, University of Pennsylvania
Esra Sahin Burat, Southeast University
Franca Trubiano, University of Pennsylvania
Visitors to Penn’s campus are required to complete PennOpen Campus on the day of their visit and present a Green Pass for entry to events. While masking is still strongly encouraged in indoor public settings, it is not currently mandated by the City of Philadelphia.
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