Events

Multistory Guest Lecture Professor Michael Benedikt 16th March 2017

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: 'Architecture, Experience, Relation'



We are pleased to announce a special MULTISTORY* guest lecture by:

Professor Michael Benedikt // Visiting Professor, UCA Canterbury School of Architecture

Architecture, Experience, Relation
Thursday 16th March 2017 6pm, Cragg Lecture Theatre

Michael Benedikt holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and is the Director of The Center for American Architecture and Design at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught design studio and design theory since 1975. He is a graduate of The University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and of Yale University. He has practiced architecture both in medium-sized firms and on his own, with a number of buildings to his credit in Austin.

His books include For an Architecture of Reality (Lumen Books, 1987), Deconstructing the Kimbell (Lumen Books, 1991), Cyberspace: First Steps (MIT Press, 1991, translated into three languages) Value and Value 2 (Center for American Architecture and Design, 1997, 1998), Shelter: The 2000 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture (Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2001) and God Is The Good We Do (Bottino Books, 2007). He is also executive editor of the award-winning book-series CENTER: Architecture and Design in America, presently in its 20th volume, and to which he regularly contributes chapters and introductions. He has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, a Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, Colin Clipson Fellow at the University of Michigan, and J. L Constant Professor at the University of Kansas. He has published over 120 articles in national journals and chapters in edited books, and has delivered over 95 invited lectures in the U.S. and abroad on architectural practice, design theory and research, computing, art, theology, and ethics.

In 2003, he was awarded the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture's Teacher of Year Award, and in 2004 was named a Distinguished Professor by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Professor Benedikt was appointed Visiting Professor at UCA in 2016.

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Multistory is a student and alumni led guest lecture programme at Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts that seeks to invite architects, designers, writers, curators, photographers, and artists to speak about their work.