UMass Amherst Architecture + Design Five College Architectural Studies Spring 2014 Tuesday / January 28, 2014 / 5:30 PM / Franklin Patterson Hall / East Lecture Hall LECTURE SERIES HAMP SMITH Richard Wies Genesis of a Community Boathouse on Long Island Sound Tuesday / March 11, 2014 / 7:30 PM / Wright Hall / Weinstein Auditorium Richard Wies is a founding principal of the firm Gregg Wies & Gardner Architects Miller Lecture in Art and Art History LLC based in New Haven, CT. Mr. Wies has thirty years experience in the architectural design of institutional, commercial, and residential projects. Maya Lin Mr. Wies is a graduate of Hampshire College, class of 1975. Maya Lin is the world-renowned architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Sponsored by: in Washington. Through a careful balance between art and architecture, her Hampshire College Alumni Relations work addresses how we relate and respond to the environment, and creates a systematic ordering of history, language and time.

Sponsored by: Saturday / February 8, 2014 / 1:00 – 4:00 PM Smith College Museum of Art, The Valley Advocate, WAMC, NEPR / Pratt Hall MHC Laura Cruikshank MHC Crafting a Life in Architecture and Planning DATE & TIME TO BE DETERMINED an informal Q+A as part of “Crafting a Life in the Arts” Mount Holyoke College / Art Building / Gamble Auditorium

Laura Cruikshank is Master Planner and Chief University Architect at the Billie Tsien University of Connecticut where she will oversee the move of UConn’s West A Building is a Verb Hartford campus to downtown Hartford. Previously the Master Planner at Yale University, she is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, class of 1975. Billie Tsien has worked with Tod Williams since 1977 and in 1986 formed the Sponsored by: partnership of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The firm has earned wide Mount Holyoke College: InterArts Council, MHC departments of Architecture, Art acclaim for their work that emphasizes the importance of place and explores History, Art Studio, Creative Writing, Dance, Film, Music, Theatre, MHC Art Museum, the nature of materials with a meticulous sense of craft. Office of the Dean of the College, Nexus Program and the Career Development Center Sponsored by: Mount Holyoke College’s Leading Women in the Arts series at the Weissman Center for Leadership

Tuesday / February 11, 2014 / 5:30 PM UMASS UMass Amherst / Fine Arts Center / Room 463 Tuesday / March 25, 2014 / 5:30 PM

UMASS Eric Cook UMass Amherst / Fine Arts Center / Room 463 Think with Your Hands: Yestermorrow/UMass Semester in Sustainable Design/Build Esther Sperber Studio ST at 10: Design and Collaboration Eric Cook is the Director of Semester Programs at Yestermorrow Design/Build School and adjunct faculty at UMass Amherst. He has engaged the Design/ Esther Sperber is the Principal of Studio ST Architects, a full-service, woman- Build arena in both academia and the private sector and revels in the realization owned, architectural firm located in Manhattan that is dedicated to exploring that our hands are a rightful part of the design process. the embedded logic of materials and structures to generate new spatial experiences. Sponsored by: The University of Amherst Architecture + Design Program Sponsored by: The University of Massachusetts Amherst Architecture + Design Program UMASS Monday / February 24, 2014 / 5:30 PM UMass Amherst / Gordon Hall / Room 303 Tuesday / April 8, 2014 / 5:30 PM UMass Amherst / Gordon Hall / Room 303

UMASS Rick Hauser David Dillon Annual Memorial Lecture The Frontier Architect: Paradigms for Progressive Practice in Upstate Architectural Outposts David Eisen Critical Tools for Contemporary Practice Rick Hauser identifies as a “Frontier Architect” and his Finger Lakes firm, In.Site:Architecture, embraces these paradigms that navigate the uncharted territory of building a progressive practice outside the centers of fashion. David Eisen is an architect, writer and educator with a focus on utilizing design as a tool for social transformation. As the architecture critic for the Boston Sponsored by: Herald and Boston Phoenix his writing investigated the relationship of design The University of Massachusetts Amherst Architecture + Design Program innovation to broader trends in culture, politics, and the often-overlooked aspects of urban life.

Sponsored by: The University of Massachusetts Amherst Architecture + Design Program For additional information contact Joseph Krupczynski at [email protected] www.umass.edu/architecture