Lectures

BairBalliet is a joint design venture co-founded by Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet and is invested in architectural research in the form of both speculative and built projects. BairBalliet's work has been exhibited internationally in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and in various locations...

Heather Roberge is the founder and principal of design practice MURMUR, established in 2008 in Los Angeles, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, where she currently serves as Chair.

MURMUR is committed to the production of stimulating...

Jennifer Bonner founded MALL, a creative practice for art and architecture, in 2009. MALL stands for Mass Architectural Loopty Loops. Or Miniature Angles & Little Lines. Or Maximum Arches with Limited Liability—an acronym with built-in flexibility. Jennifer is Associate Professor of...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...