The Fall Lecture Series features an exciting schedule of talks that are free and open to the public. Please click here to review the Fall Lecture Series 2009 schedule.
UPCOMING LECTURES:
Monday, November 9, 6:00pm – MBA Suite, University of Colorado Denver Building, 1250 14th Street, Denver
5:30 – Reception in MBA Suite Area
“Rainfall and Landscape: A Contested Commons”
Paul Lander, Ph.D.
Instructor of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder and Principal, Dakota Ridge Partnership
Paul Lander, LEED AP, is an Instructor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Principal of the Dakota Ridge Partnership, specializing in urban ecology, specifically urban water systems. He has been active in conservation for 28 years, with program experience in energy, land, and water conservation with the City of Boulder, City of Longmont, South Suburban Parks and Recreation District-Littleton, County of Boulder, Trust for Public Land-Seattle, State of Washington Scenic Rivers Program and Minnesota Energy Agency. Dr. Lander was the first Executive Director of the Colorado WaterWise Council, and for 16 years directed the award-winning water conservation program for the city of Boulder. He is a member of the AWWA WaterWiser editorial committee, the advisory board of Oregon's Lane Community College Water Conservation Technician Program, and the water conservation committee of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, M.L.A. in Landscape Architecture & Planning from the University of Washington, and B.A. in Environmental Conservation from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Monday, November 16, 6:00pm – MBA Suite, University of Colorado Denver Building, 1250 14th Street, Denver
5:30 – Reception in MBA Suite Area
“Sensation”
Kivi Sotamaa
Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA and Principal, Sotamaa Design ltd.
Finnish architect Kivi Sotamaa is Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design and Principal of Sotamaa Design ltd. Previously he held positions at The Ohio State University and the Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Institut für Architektur in Vienna. Until 2005 he was one of the founders and principals of Ocean North. Sotamaa’s creative work is widely published and exhibited. His work has been exhibited by MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondazione Trussardi and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa. Publications featuring his work include the New York Times, Phaidon’s 10×10 Architects [1&2], New Scandinavian Design, Forum Sweden, AD, Praxis, Kenhiku Bunka, L’Arca and Domus. His most current projects are Saunalahti Public School and Sirocco, a permanent pavilion to be constructed in 2009 in Helsinki. Sotamaa holds a Masters degree from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki [UIAH] and in addition has studied at the Helsinki University of Technology and the Royal College of Art in London.
“Sotamaa explores a formal vocabulary which reflects his fluid, less bounded, more organic way of working and communicating. In his work there is a resurfacing of ideas that developed earlier in 20th century by surrealist painters, filmmakers, poets - having to do with the subconscious, having to do with dreams, water, fluidity, and the dissolution of the boundaries that reason applies to experience - with which reason tries to categorize experience. Sotamaa is developing a vocabulary which draws on and expands surrealist ideas into architecture. His work is not just about the technology, the new, the digital - but the continuity with ideas that are integral to modern art.” (Herbert Muschamp, NY Times architecture critic)