February 7–April 22, 2022
The University of Minnesota School of Architecture is pleased to announce its spring 2022 online lecture series, bringing together critical approaches to retrofitting, circularity, and the surveying of existing conditions.
Scattered in the notes of most construction plans, the phrase “existing to remain” denotes portions of a site or structure that both precede and proceed. This annotative convention codifies how spatial practitioners incorporate existing fabrics—and their accompanying histories and contemporary potentials—into reframed and altered configurations. While the prevailing design imaginary still privileges ground-up construction, practices that validate, activate, and recompose what is already here can perhaps engage more directly in the conflicts of spatial injustice and environmental change. The lectures this semester thus reinforce calls to reorient architectural design’s temporal, scalar, and political range to that which endures.
The public is invited to join these free, online presentations. Following the live events, the lectures will be posted on YouTube.
The series is organized by Gabriel Cuéllar, Assistant Professor-in-Practice, University of Minnesota School of Architecture.
University of Minnesota spring 2022 lecture series: “Existing to Remain”
All lectures take place via Zoom at 12pm CST (GMT-6). Please register and join using the links below.
Fete Nature Architecture
“Adaptive Futures”
Monday, February 7, 2022
Watch recording
Hütten & Paläste
“Architectures of Openness: Strategies of Transformation”
Monday, February 28, 2022
Watch recording
Local Works Studio
“Habitual Design: Routines for Circular Building and Dwelling”
Monday, March 28, 2022
Paulo Tavares
“Trees, Vines, Palms and Other Architectural Monuments”
Monday, April 4, 2022
Everett L. Fly
“Planning and Design: Beyond Myths, Materials and Objects”
Monday, April 11, 2022
Milica Topalovic
Associate Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning, ETH Zürich
Monday, April 18, 2022
baubüro in situ
“Reuse & Upcycling”
Friday, April 22, 2022
