The School of Architecture + Art (SoA+A) holds final lecture series of the 2023-24 academic year

NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The SoA+A 23-24 Lecture Series is concluding with a symposium scheduled on March 22, 2024, at Chaplin Hall from 3pm-5pm. The event is open to the public and a virtual option is also available.

The symposium focuses on the topic of MATERIALITY: FABRICATION FOR COMMUNITY, exploring how design contributes to building community through a lens of materiality and fabrication. Contributors to the newly released book FABRIC[ated] | Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture by Tolya Stonorov will share and discuss their research and practice.

Presentations by panelists Emily Baker, Eleanor D’Aponte, Juney Lee, Judith Kinnard, and Nick Jenisch will be followed by questions and moderated by Tolya Stonorov and Zach Seibold.1.5 LU’s (pending)

Emily Baker, is an inventor, fabricator, architect, and assistant professor of architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Her work investigates the adaptation of the choreography of construction to emerging technologies, hand capacities, and joy in creation. Full-scale constructed experimentation informs her creative practice, research, and teaching, centering on self-structuring material systems. She holds degrees from University of Arkansas and Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has previously taught at Tulane University and the American University of Sharjah.

Eleanor D’Aponte, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture + Art, Norwich University has been teaching innovative design studios, seminars, and lecture courses at the undergraduate and graduate level for 25 years. She has been awarded grants to study the aesthetics and techniques for casting building envelopes and wall panels using fabric formed concrete to which she brings a passion for biophilia and the natural environment. In 2021 she completed the first training to become a Vermont Master Naturalist and presently serves as Immediate Past President for the Vermont Chapter of the AIA.

Dr. Juney Lee is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His main areas of research include graphic statics, computational form-finding methods, and sustainable construction. He studied architectural design and structural engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD at ETH Zurich in 2018 with highest distinction, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Philippe Block and Dr. Tom Van Mele.

Judith Kinnard, FAIA is the Harvey Wadsworth Professor of Landscape Urbanism at the Tulane School of Architecture. Her teaching and practice engages urban themes at multiple scales. Her current research involves the development of innovative pedagogical approaches to exploring mass timber in the design studio. This work studies both formal themes that are specific to the discipline of architecture and addresses the role of building materials in advancing regional economies and combating climate change.

Nick Jenisch, AICP, is Project Manager for the Albert & Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at the Tulane School of Architecture, and has been engaged in public interest design for more than ten years. With experience in teaching, public engagement, architecture, and planning, he brings a deep understanding of urban scale and regional context to Small Center’s work. Nick conducts research on affordable housing and the impact of policy on urbanization, and works with small and mid-sized cities to aid municipal leaders in understanding and harnessing the value of quality design.

This series is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, a philanthropic organization supporting cancer research, education, volunteerism and other charitable endeavors, backs the School of Architecture + Art Lecture Series. For more than 10 years, the Byrne Foundation and Norwich University have partnered to bring eminent national and international architects, designers, artists and writers to campus. Events are free and open to the public.

To learn more about the Norwich University School of Architecture + Art please visit https://www.norwich.edu/cops/school-of-architecture-and-art.

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About Norwich University
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in baccalaureate and graduate degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. Norwich is one of our nation's six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu