Architecture Lecture Series
The Architecture Lecture Series welcomes architectural and experiential design leaders from around the country to the University of Kansas to illuminate new ideas and inspire purpose-driven design practice. Lecturers bring a wide range of expertise in areas such as sustainable building, digital environments, public interest design, historic preservation, health and wellness design, and more.
Fall 2024 Schedule
February 7 | Nader Tehrani, NADAAA
80 + 40
4:30 PM, Marvin Forum
For his contributions to architecture as an art, Tehrani is the recipient of The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States. He is also the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, and the Design Visionary by Cooper Hewitt and the Smithsonian Museum of Design National Design awards. Tehrani is Founding Principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with a body of work in infrastructure, urbanism, architecture, and installations. Tehrani is also the former Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. The works of Nader Tehrani have been widely exhibited at MOMA, LA MOCA and ICA Boston.
February 24 | Tye Farrow, Farrow Partners
Health & Wellness Symposium
4:30 PM, Jayhawk Welcome Center
Tye Farrow holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University. He has gained international recognition for designing places that enhance our capacity to thrive—culturally, economically, mentally and physically. He has initiated a global “Cause Health” movement aimed at raising expectations for design as the basis for total health, which extends beyond environmental sustainability and physical health to encompass our mind health; connects the dots between neuroscience and architecture. Tye’s projects across North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East demonstrate leadership in this visionary quest. He has been invited to present his ideas at leading institutions including the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic, as well as venues from Helsinki to Houston. His portfolio includes multiple international awards for designing some of the most technically advanced facilities in the world.
March 7 | Anne Patterson, University of Kansas
Faculty Spotlight
4:30 PM, Marvin Forum
Born in England and Schooled in Scotland, Anne Patterson lives in Lawrence, Kansas where she teaches Beginning Design at the University of Kansas School of Architecture. She loves her job: opening minds and unlocking the creative potential of students. Beyond that, she is a woman with many interests: Architectural drawing, Hats, Cake decorating, Topiary, Tailoring, Watercolors, Theater Design, Cartography, Gardening, Pianos, Cooking, Soccer, Paper sculpture, Costume Design, Sacred Places, Landscapes, Meat pies, Pop-up models, Magnolia trees, Children's drawings, Dark Beers, Edges, Architecture, and Making memories.
March 28 | Kathy Velikov, University of Michigan
80 + 40
4:30 PM, Marvin Forum
Kathy Velikov is Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Creative Practice at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Kathy is a leader in practice-based design research and education, advancing environmentally responsive, technologically enabled, and climate positive built environments through speculation, prototyping, and visualization for responsive architectural material assemblies, resilient multifunctional urban infrastructures, and territorial practices for decarbonization. She is a licensed architect, founding partner of the research-based practice RVTR, and former president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). Kathy’s projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally and have received multiple awards. She has published two books and her work and writing has been published in numerous journals and book chapters. Honors include the ACADIA Society Award for Leadership (2023), an ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award (2020), the Technology + Architecture Design (TAD) Journal Research Contribution Award (2020), two R&D Awards from Architecture Magazine (2010, 2016), the Canadian Professional Prix de Rome (2009), and the Architectural League of New York’s Young Architect’s Forum Award (2008).