AIABaltimore Lecture Series Committee: 2006

LECTURE SERIES COMMITTEE

Sarah Gratz, Associate AIA (Co-chairperson), GWWO, Inc./Architects, (410) 332-1009; sgratz@gwwoinc.com
Jessica Marshall (Co-chairperson), Parameter, Inc., (410) 539-5800; jmarshall@parameterinc.com

Brings provocative and topical architectural speakers to the Baltimore community.

2006 AIABALTIMORE SPRING LECTURE SERIES

In addition to our other extensive public programming, for decades AIABaltimore 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. The series has attracted hundreds of enthusiasts, sometimes standing-room-only crowds, and is open to the public.

2006 Spring Lecture Series Co-chairs Jessica Marshall, Sarah Gratz Assoc. AIA of GWWO, Inc.
James Corner March 8 www.fieldoperations.net
		High Line, New York, completed by Field Operations
Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, James Corner has co-authored Taking Measures Across the American Landscape and edited Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory. He demonstrates that landscape representation is more than descriptive—it can also instruct and construct how people perceive, shape, and transform the land. Corner has over twenty years of experience as a registered landscape architect and urban designer. Founded in 1998, his firm Field Operations specializes in an integrated synthesis of landscape, infrastructure, ecology, architecture, economic development and city life. Field Operations’ work has received several awards, including the Daimler-Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the Architectural League of New York Design Award. Field Operations was selected as one of the six finalists for the World Trade Center Master Plan in lower Manhattan.

Ray Huff, AIA
March 22
www.huffgooden.com

Ray Huff, AIA

HHP, completed by Huff + Gooden Architects

Ray Huff is Principal and Partner of Huff + Gooden Architects, a firm established in Charleston, South Carolina in 1997. He serves as both founding Director and Assistant Professor of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston.

Huff’s practice is dedicated to the exploration of architecture and its relationship to culture and knowledge. Its modernist approach to design is described as “an interpretation and translation of cultural and geographical situations.” The motivation for the firm’s work derives from “how one comes to terms with a certain place to reveal meanings, situations, and conditions (both apparent and subliminal).”

Huff + Gooden have received numerous honor and merit awards from the American Institute of Architects. In 2002, Huff was selected as one of six "Emerging Voices" by the New York Architectural League. Publications regarding his work include Architectural Record, Architecture, Progressive Architecture, A+U, Metropolis, The New York Times, and other periodicals and newspapers.

Marlon Blackwell, AIA April 5 www.marlonblackwell.com
		Razorback Center, completed by Marlon Blackwell, AIA
Marlon Blackwell, AIA is an architect and tenured professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Work produced from his private practice, Marlon Blackwell, Architect, has received national and international recognition through AIA design awards and architectural publications, including Architecture, Arquine, Details, Dwell, Southern Living, Summa+, and most recently, Architectural Record. Through his design work Marlon Blackwell, Architect seeks to provide for his clients an architecture that can be felt as much as it is understood; an architecture that is as immediate and tactile as it is legible; an architecture that contributes to the fundamental civic dignity in any community. The firm believes that architecture is situational, so every project is considered unique. Blackwell has stated that he tries “to look at the world with a microscopic wide angle lens to generate ideas and actions from concrete experiences of the everyday. Blackwell was selected by a national jury as one of the top 40 designers under 40 years of age in 1995. In 1998, the New York Architectural League recognized him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture.

Mayor William Hudnut April 26
		Image of Downtown Indianapolis, revitalized by Mayor William Hudnut
William Hudnut has had a richly variegated career as Mayor, Congressman, clergyman, author and public speaker. As Mayor of Indianapolis from 1976 to 1991, his stated goal was to build a "cooperative, compassionate, and competitive" city. Hudnut spearheaded the formation of a public-private sector partnership that led to Indianapolis' emergence during the 1980s as a major American city. A past president of the National League of Cities and the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns, he helped Indianapolis record spectacular growth during his sixteen years in office. Hudnut’s writing includes Halfway to Everywhere, published by the Urban Land Institute in 2003, which discusses his philosophy on urban sprawl, decay, and revitalization. Hudnut is currently serving as Mayor of Chevy Chase, Maryland and is a member of the Board of the National League of Cities.

The 2006 AIABaltimore Spring Lecture Series is generously sponsored by:

Major Sponsors

Preservation Maryland, in Memory of Michael F. Trostel, FAIA
University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation