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2005 AIABALTIMORE SPRING LECTURE SERIES

In addition to our other extensive monthly programming, for decades AIA has sponsored the only local annual lecture series devoted to architecture and design. This program brings guest speakers from around the world, as a gift to the people of central Maryland, and has attracted hundreds of enthusiasts, sometimes standing-room only crowds, and is open to the public.

TIME: 6 p.m. with reception to follow each lecture
LOCATION: Falvey Hall at the Brown Center for Digital Art & Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art
1301 West Mount Royal Avenue

Ziger/Snead: Brown Center, Exterior View of Atrium

SPEAKERS:
March 9: Paul Lewis AIA, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects, PLLC; New York
April 6: Roberta Gratz, Author/Critic; New York
April 20: Shannon Nichol, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Ltd.; Seattle
April 28: Antoine Predock FAIA, Antoine Predock Architect PC; Albuquerque

Paul Lewis AIA
March 9
www.ltlwork.net

Paul Lewis, AIA is a principal of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL), an architecture and research partnership founded in 1993 which is dedicated to exploring the inventive possibilities of architecture through a close examination of the conventional and the overlooked. Their work includes large-scale building projects, theoretical projects, museum installations, exhibition design, full-scale prototyping, lectures and teaching. Mr. Lewis is the director of Graduate Studies in the Masters of Architecture program at Princeton University. In 2000, LTL was named one of 10 Selected Architects representing “The New Vanguard” by Architectural Record.

Roberta Brandes Gratz
April 6 during Baltimore Green Week

Roberta Gratz is an urban critic, journalist, consultant, and author of The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way and Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown. She travels extensively throughout the United States and Europe to consult on urban revitalization issues. By illustrating the advantages of low-cost, modest initiatives, Ms. Gratz demonstrates that rebuilding authentic places, reconnecting communities and stimulating innovative change are within everyone’s reach. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Surdna Foundation.

Roberta Brandes Gratz will present the Michael F. Trostel, FAIA memorial lecture in historic preservation supported by Preservation Maryland.

Shannon Nichol
April 20

Shannon Nichol is a founding partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, a full-service landscape architecture firm in Seattle with special experience in designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban contexts. On rooftops, over freeways, between buildings, or suspended in the air, and in substantial collaboration with other disciplines, their unusual landscapes are designed as sensuous, connected settings for diverse and ever-changing activities. Ms. Nichol designs contextually-driven, complex or unorthodox award-winning landscapes in cities throughout North America. She is known for her inspired responses to local history, views, and urban topography.

Antoine Predock FAIA
April 28
www.predock.com

Founder of Antoine Predock Architect PC in Albuquerque, NM in 1967, Antoine Predock, FAIA is also a registered landscape architect and interior designer. The firm specializes in museums, galleries, libraries, theaters and auditoriums, as well as residential and office projects. Recipient of more than 50 national and international awards, including the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, Mr. Predock lectures extensively. In 1981, he was named Kea Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, and since then, has taught as a distinguished professor and critic at numerous universities.

Special Thanks to Our 2005 Spring Lecture Series Sponsors

We are grateful to these sponsors for making this series such a success!

Michael F. Trostel, FAIA Memorial Lecture Sponsor
Preservation Maryland

Major Sponsor
Victor O. Schinnerer & Company

Printing Sponsor
Maryland Reprographics

Sponsors
ACP/Metal-Fab Manufacturing; Design Collective, Inc.; Douron, Inc.; Gaudreau, Inc.; Henry H. Lewis Contractors, Inc.; Ilex Construction & Development, Inc.; Kinsley Construction, Inc.; Marks, Thomas Architects; Merritt Properties; Oak Contracting; J. Vinton Schafer & Sons, Inc.; Schamu Machowski Greco Architects, Inc.; Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, Inc.; Swirnow Building Systems, Inc.; Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Inc.

Patrons
Alexander Design Studio; Apex Urethane Millwork; Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc.; Betco Block & Products/Oldcastle; Brennan + Company Architects; Century Engineering; Cho Benn Holback + Associates, Inc.; Cochran Stephenson & Donkervoet, Inc.; EBL Engineers, Inc.; Gensler; GWWO, Inc./Architects; Hope Furrer Associates; Hord Coplan Macht, Inc.; James Posey Associates, Inc.; Kann + Associates, Inc.; KCI Technologies, Inc.; Manekin Construction; Masonry Institute of Maryland; Morabito Consultants; Murphy & Dittenhafer, Inc. Architects; Probst-Mason, Inc. Architects; Siegel Rutherford Bradstock & Ridgway, Inc.; Triangle Sign & Service, Inc.; WBCM, LLC.

Donors
Anne Gummerson Photography; Crampton/Dunlop Architectural Lighting Services, LLC; Faisant Associates, Inc.; Hayles & Howe Ornamental Plasterers, Inc.; Heery International; Holophane Lighting, Inc.; Mueller Associates; New Design Light; Pappas & Associates, Inc.; PARAmeter, Inc.; Penza Associates Architects, Inc.; Plano-Coudon, LLC; Tindall Corporation

*Annual Sponsors in italics.

Special thanks to our hard-working committee, for making this series more successful with each year:

Committee Chairman Stefan Schwarzkopf AIA, Elaine Asal Assoc. AIA, Liz Bulger Assoc. AIA, Laura Butler Assoc. AIA, Matthew Compton Assoc. AIA, Joel Esguerra Assoc. AIA, Cliff Everett AIA, Sarah Gratz Assoc. AIA, Kristin Harbeson, Jessica Marshall Assoc. AIA, Jason Neal Assoc. AIA, Jacob Panikar AIA, Chuck Patterson Assoc. AIA, Keval Thakkar Assoc. AIA, Sharon Walsh AIA