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Autumn 2025 Baumer Lecture Series
The Knowlton School is pleased to announce the Autumn 2025 Baumer Lecture Series. For autumn 2025, the series returns to Knowlton Hall’s Gui Auditorium for eight in-person lectures.
Speakers
Sue Schwartz: September 10 / João Paupério and Maria Rebelo: September 17 / Mike Albert: September 24 / Tyeshia Redden: October 1 / David Buckley Borden: October 8 / Theo de Meyer: October 22 / Atelier Bow-Wow (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima): November 14 (Friday) / Yasmin Vobis: November 19.
All lectures are free and open to the public. The Baumer Series invites prominent researchers and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning to present their work and to engage subjects both topical and enduring.
New Knowlton leadership and visiting faculty
Rachel Garshick Kleit, PhD, named interim Director of the Knowlton School: Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning Rachel Garshick Kleit has been appointed Interim Director of the Knowlton School.
Dr. Kleit joined Knowlton as section head and professor of City and Regional Planning in 2012. In 2018, she was appointed associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Engineering. Before joining Ohio State, she was an associate professor of Public Affairs at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
Visiting faculty
Knowlton is pleased to announce that the following visiting faculty will join the school.
Ghida Anouti
2025–26 Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Architecture Section. Ghida Anouti is an architect and writer. Her work lies at the intersection of design, semiotics, and audiovisual culture. Rooted in exploring the relationship between signs and their worldly (or otherworldly) manifestations, her research pivots on questions concerning the ontology of images and sounds.
Pablo Castillo Luna
2025–27 LeFevre Fellow. Pablo Castillo Luna is an architect from the Canary Islands. He is the co-founder of à la sauvette, an internationally recognized design and research practice dedicated to architecture and cultural production. His work explores instability, temporality, and material histories in architecture, and has been exhibited at institutions including the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Center for Architecture in New York, and the Driving the Human Festival in Berlin.
Atelier Bow-Wow
2025 Herbert Baumer Memorial Seminar. The 2025 Herbert Baumer Memorial Seminars will focus on the work of Atelier Bow-Wow (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima). The Baumer Seminar offers advanced architecture students the opportunity to engage with noted architectural practitioners and theorists from inside and outside the field.
Atelier Bow-Wow’s projects span residential buildings to public spaces and are characterized by a commitment to sustainability, social impact, and an understanding of human behavior in the built environment. Kaijima and Tsukamoto are recipients of the RIBA International Fellowship and the Wolf Prize Laureate in Architecture. Atelier Bow-Wow is the 2024-2026 Rothwell Co-Chair at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Marilyn Reish
2025–27 Midwest Landscape Lab Research Fellow and Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor. Marilyn Reish’s research interests include creaturely movements and migrations, mapping as a way to advance design research, how landscape architects can do data synthesis for the purpose of action and activism in the living, changing world, and de-growth.
Theo Teichman
Midwest Landscape Lab Research Fellow. Theodore Teichman is a transdisciplinary scholar, educator, designer, and composer. Their research engages the creative and transformative potential of degraded landscapes and the beings therein. Using phenomenological methods toward more-than-human speculation and counter-narration, their research embraces co-creation with the adaptive, evolving “monstrous” places, materials, and non-humans to develop arts of dwelling in damaged worlds.
Syd Lister
2025–26 Midwest Landscape Lab Alumni Research Fellow. Syd Lister teaches landscape architecture at Louisiana State University and resides in New Orleans, where she previously worked as a landscape designer. Her focus areas are on the history of landscape architecture, archival research methods, GIS applications in landscape practice, and exploring novel mediums of storytelling. She is most energized when engaging students in dialogue about current landscape research and practice, especially when historical context can inform future design.
Exhibitions
Monuments of the Ohio Valley: through October 10
Knowlton Hall, Banvard Gallery. The recent listing of eight Hopewell earthworks in present-day Ohio as UNESCO World Heritage Sites put a spotlight on the built heritage of Native Americans in the area. However, these relatively well-preserved sites only represent a small fraction of the earthwork sites in the Ohio Valley. This exhibit focuses on a subset of twenty sites in the Ohio Valley to exemplify larger trends in how these sites have persisted and changed over time. Contemporary photographs of each earthwork help to capture the site in its current state. A unique modular table design allows visitors to engage the sites through touch. These case studies suggest the continuing meaning and value of these sites for those connected to them, as well as the challenges they face.
Micropolitan America: November 17–February 20
Micropolitan America is an architectural research project and exhibition that examines small towns within the vast networks of capitalist urbanization in the American countryside. While essential to large urban centers, these networks impose political, economic, and environmental pressures on rural communities, which in turn rely on them for their existence. The exhibition explores this question through a collection of drawings that document life in the small town and, without imposing solutions, reimagine the present, projecting onto the future of the countryside. Micropolitan America seeks to spark cross–regional discourse, lifting stereotypes and celebrating the small town as a cell of community action.
