The 2018-19 Bernard Zimmerman Lecture Series concludes with Tom Kundig, owner and principal of Olson Kundig Architects. Kundig earned national attention in 1998 after completing Studio House, a residential-photographer's studio in Seattle. He is one of five co-owners of the Seattle-based full-...
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March 15, 2019
Elizabeth Timme, Helen Leung
LA Mas co-executive directors Elizabeth Timme and Helen Leung use their non-profit urban design organization to advocate for lower-income and underserved communities through policy and architecture.
They carry out projects in communities undergoing economic, social and demographic...
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March 8, 2019
Lawrence Scarpa
Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, a pioneer in the field of sustainable design, is the featured speaker in a lecture sponsored by the Cal Poly Pomona chapter of the Tau Sigma Delta Honors Society. Named 2004's "Emerging Voice" in architecture by the Architectural League of New York, he is the co-founder...
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March 1, 2019
Edwin Chan, founder of Los Angeles-based EC3, served as a design partner for more than 25 years at Frank Gehry & Associates (later Gehry Partners) on many of the practice's prominent cultural and institutional projects. His portfolio of work spans master planning, furniture design,...
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February 22, 2019
Kulapat Yantrasast
Renowned for his architectural flair for designing contemporary art galleries and museums, Kulapat Yantrasast worked closely with legendary architect Tadao Ando (CPP ARC's 2012 Neutra Award medalist) on international projects such as the Armani/Teatro in Milan and the Fondation Francois Pinault...
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February 15, 2019
Nader Tehrani
February 5, 2019
Frank Gehry
In his six-decade career Frank Gehry revolutionized architecture’s aesthetics and techniques, recasting its relationship with cities as one of the modern era’s early advocates of design’s inherent social responsibility.
The Department of Architecture honored Gehry on Feb. 5 with the...
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November 16, 2018
The L.T. Shanks Travel Scholarship is a scholarship for architecture students from Cal Poly Pomona that supports travel and research, based on a previously submitted proposal. This year’s recipients are Franco Mellone and Kleon Tran, who will present their travel and research in a public...
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November 9, 2018
The L.T. Shanks Travel Scholarship is a scholarship for architecture students from Cal Poly Pomona that supports travel and research, based on a previously submitted proposal. This year’s recipients are Franco Mellone and Kleon Tran, who present their travel and research in...
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October 19, 2018
Monika Haefelfinger
Founded in 2000 by Monika Haefelfinger and the late Austin Kelly (1966-2015), XTEN Architecture is an award-winning international architecture firm based in Los Angeles, California, and Sissach, Switzerland. The firm specializes in custom residential, cultural, and commercial projects and is...
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October 12, 2018
Frank Escher, Ravi GuneWardena
Escher GuneWardena Architecture was founded by Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena in Los Angeles in 1996. The extraordinary range of their work– small, conceptually rigorous projects; ecologically and socially innovative urban design proposals; and work in the fields of contemporary art and...
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January 12, 2018
Horst Noppenberger
Each quarter the Department of Architecture hosts a weekly professional lecture series, held every Friday at 12:15 p.m. at the Interim Design (Building 89). This winter, the department welcomes a special lineup of professional speakers from its very own alumni ranks.
The first lecture...
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