The Professional Advisory Council for the Architecture Program will host a symposium on Integrated Practice and Architectural Education on Friday, March 2nd at the School’s Center for Architecture and Urban Studies in Birmingham, AL.

Integrated Practice refers to the dramatic shifts which are occurring in the profession as a consequence of evolutions in project delivery and the digital technologies associated with virtual modeling – such as BIM and parametric modeling – which both drive, and respond to, these changes. This symposium aims to help broaden our understanding of these new technologies and how they may change both the way architects practice and he way we educate future architects.

Symposium presenters include Michael LeFevre, AIA of Atlanta-based Holder Construction, Marc Simmons of Front, Inc based in New York City, and Daniel Friedman, FAIA, Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington.

Download the symposium-schedule.pdf for details of schedule and program.

The first John Pratt Memorial Lecture will be presented at 4 p.m. March 5 by Dianne Harris, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. It will be held in Ray Parker Auditorium in Dudley Hall. Harris, whose lecture is titled “Clean and Bright and Everyone White: Seeing the Postwar Domestic Landscape in the United States,” is writing a book that examines postwar houses and gardens in the United States as frameworks for assimilation and the reinforcement of racial constructs and class assignment. She is the coeditor of “Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France” and the author of “The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape and Representation in Eighteenth Century Lombardy” and “Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature.” Her edited volume titled “Sites Unseen: Essays on Landscape and Vision” is due in bookstores this spring. The John Pratt Memorial Lecture honors the memory of John MacDougall Pratt, who was a professor of architectural history in the AU College of Architecture. He was a cherished member of the faculty from 1989 until his untimely death in 2001. The lecture series is funded through the generosity of alumni and friends.

Date: Wednesday February 7th, 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Ray Parker Auditorium (Dudley Hall B-6)

Miquel Adria is an architect graduated from the Superior Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB) in Barcelona, Spain. From 1982 to 1993 had a professional practice in Barcelona in association with Joan Fabregat. Has been living in México since 1994, dividing his time between architectural practice, teaching, and as author of architectural books and as director of the magazine “Arquine” (today the most important architectural journal in México). Has taught in Barcelona, Mexico City (Monterrey Technological Institute, Anahuac University, and the National University), and New Mexico. Some of his published books are “Mexico 90’s a Contemporary Architecture”, “Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon: Obra Completa”, and “Alberto Kalach”. Of his architectural works F2 House, designed in association with Isaac Broid and Michel Rojkind, was selected a Record House of 2002 by Architectural Record magazine. The Youth Center in Viladecans, Spain was published by Quaderns. Has done competitions in association with Dominique Perrault and Broid - Rojkind for the House of France in Mexico, finalist, and for the Jose Vasconcelos National Library, honorific mention.

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