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Throughout the 2020 Spring semester, Roundhouse Platform hosts a series of online and in-person events aimed at connecting audiences with architecture at Texas Tech University College of Architecture. All events are free, open to the public, and coordinated by Visiting Instructors Noémie Despland-Lichtert and Brendan Sullivan Shea.
Public Programming: City Similes
(forthcoming)
An experimental screening series with images of architecture from the public domain—some re-presented, some reprogrammed. This installment of the series invites Hans Tursack, Curious Mind Los Angeles, and Rebecca Looringh-van Beeck & Danny Wills.
Public Programming: Simulation Symposium
March 6
A virtual symposium addressing cities, cinema, and simulations in architecture. Featuring digital presentations and a chatroom streamed live from Maxime Lefebvre, Marton Robinson, Sara V. Suárez, Matthew Conway of Chill Anime Beats, Caco Peguero of United Futures, Neal Lucas Hitch & Martin Francis Hitch of i/thee, and Phoebe Webster & Jack Stewart-Castner. Hosted in conjunction with architecture journal POOL.
Architecture + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-thon
March 13
A five-hour hands-on workshop co-organized with the Texas Tech University College of Architecture Library on contributing to Wikipedia and closing the gender gap expressed in pages of practitioners and thinkers in architecture. Held in solidarity with the 2020 Art + Feminism international campaign and with support from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Pen Pal Pictures
February 14, February 28, March 13, March 27
A film series in which a correspondent from abroad pens a letter about a film in which architecture is the main character. Featuring letters by Camille Bédard, Erika Brandl-Mouton, Lili Carr, and Tanya Southcott & Ben Sweeting.
For more details, please join the mailing list to receive news and announcements or visit the CoA website to view the calendar of exhibitions, lectures, and events.
About Roundhouse Platform
Roundhouse Platform is a curatorial platform investigating urban change. It aims to facilitate public engagement with site-specific histories through site exploration, archival research, publication and exhibition making. Curation is a project of Noémie Despland-Lichtert and Brendan Shea.
About TTU CoA
Texas Tech College of Architecture aspires to advance the knowledge, discipline, and practice of architecture through innovation, creative teaching, research, regional and global engagement, and scholarship.
