"Surface Conversations", hosted by the university's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), will bring together professional designers, researchers, engineers, academicians, design writers and critics for a series of workshops and presentations addressing the opportunities and challenges facing today's building environments and campuses.
"The conference is about discussing growth and discovery in a variety of fields allied with design, as well as the best means for strategically and responsibly evolving our campus environments and buildings in the future in order to serve our larger purposes as educators and professionals," DAAP associate dean and conference co-organizer Patricia Kucker said in a prepared release.
- Peter Eisenman, whose firm designed the Aronoff Center for Design & Art;
- Michael Graves, whose firm designed the Engineering Research Center;
- Andrea Leers and Jane Weinzapfel, whose firm designed University Pavilion;
- Thom Mayne, whose firm designed the Campus Recreation Center;
- Eric Sueberkrop, whose firm designed the CARE/Crawley Building; and
- Buzz Yudell, whose firm designed the Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center.
Preservation lecture Wednesday
On Wednesday at 4 P.M., UC | Sustainability will host a presentation by three local preservation experts at UC's Main Street Cinema.
Speakers will include Cincinnati Preservation Association Executive Director Paul Muller, UC Department of History professor David Stradling, and Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation Executive Director Steven Hampton.
Admission is free.
Previous reading on BC:
UC lecture to examine broader effects of streetcar project (5/1/12)
Columbia planning professor to speak at UC's DAAP tonight (11/4/09)
