Illinois School of Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, April 7, 2025
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Presentation title: Shedd Aquarium’s Experience Evolution Phase 2: Preparing Shedd for the Next Century of Service
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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Francesca Russello Ammon, associate professor of city and regional planning and historic preservation at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, is a cultural historian of urban planning and the built environment. Her teaching and research focus on the changing spaces of American cities, from World War II to the present.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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From Plate to Plaza. Architecture Across Scales - From intimate, small-scale projects to large, complex urban interventions. Drawing on a diverse range of work—from ephemeral installations to permanent architectural designs—the lecture will explore how these scales are interwoven with the passage of time and the shifting nature of permanence in architecture.
Monday, April 21, 2025
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In an era of escalating ecological and political crises, design provides a hopeful language for planetary futures. Yet the legacies on which our promises of design build today may lie at the very heart of these crises.