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February 8 OTHER WAYS OF DOING THINGS: ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN ACTIVISM Architecture: Shaping Buildings, Shaping Us Anya Sirota “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Winston Churchill’s Anya Sirota is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of well-known quote is the starting point for our look at the relationship between architecture Architecture and Urban Planning. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on contemporary and our way of living. We start with the early 20th Century, when modern technology and cultural production and its relationship to architecture and urbanism. Sirota is principal of changing social/political relationships in Western Europe led to new thinking about the forms the award-winning design studio Akoaki and director of the Detroit-based Michigan and shapes of the built environment. WWII brought many of the most innovative European Architecture Prep program. She holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate designers to the United States. Michigan played a large, and underappreciated, role in the School of Design and a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. development of “Mid-Century Modern.” Stimulated by the auto industry, Scandinavian Speaker’s Synopsis: In the aftermath of Modernism’s perceived urban failures, a cadre of architects, and Americans like Frank Lloyd Wright, Michigan became the center for an organic architects is becoming increasingly aware that a building might not always be the best design philosophy that rejected the classical forms from ancient Greece and Rome. New solution to a spatial problem. The lecture will explore how certain practices are reinventing thinking in the design of furniture, buildings, and cities both reflected and encouraged the the architectural profession, replacing the model of the heroic visionary with a more changes in lifestyle that persist today. The future looks equally exciting. The digital revolution collaborative, experimental, and interdisciplinary approach to work in the built environment. has changed the way we communicate and it will also change the way we construct and February 15 PLAUSIBLE FUTURES: APPROACHING ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN interact with our built environment. There are signs that it can help us to renew places such DESIGN FROM A COMPLEX SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE as the city of Detroit. Prof. Geoffrey Thün Shaping Buildings, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Osher A Community Program of the Geriatrics Center A Architecture: Architecture: The Third 2017-2018 January 11 - February 22, 2018 January 11 Geoffrey Thün is Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean for Research and www.olli-umich.org www.olli-umich.org Thursday Morning Creative Practice at UM’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is a at the University of Michigan founding partner in the research-based practice RVTR. Thün holds an M.U.D. from the Lecture Series Lecture University of Toronto, and a Professional B.Arch. and B.E.S. from the University of Waterloo. Shaping Us He uses a complex systems approach in his work, which ranges in scale from high performance buildings, to cities and regional territories. presents Speaker’s Synopsis: Drawing from examples of Thün’s work, contemporary practice, and what he perceives as the frontiers of research in architecture and urban design, this talk will outline a manifesto for a future of design for the built environment based upon principles of ecological and complex systems. 734-998-9351 February 22 UPDATE ON THE CITY OF DETROIT John Gallagher John Gallagher is a veteran journalist who holds the title of Senior Business Columnist with the Detroit Free Press, where for 30 years he has covered economic development in Detroit and elsewhere. He has published several books on urban affairs including Reimagining Join us for Detroit and Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity, a biography of architect Minoru Yamasaki. He and his wife live along the east riverfront in Detroit. lunch after the lecture! See Speaker’s Synopsis: This lecture will present updates on the major new developments taking below. place in Detroit and delve into the controversy over “Two Detroits” – the debate over what’s happening in downtown Detroit versus what’s happening in the neighborhoods. Join other OLLI members for a boxed lunch in the lobby immediately following the February 22nd lecture for some socialization! The cost is $8. You can register for the lunch online or in-person. OLLI will be hosting a lunch once a lecture series. Stay tuned for further details! OLLI Out of Town: Seeing Detroit from the Ground Up Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 48105 MI Arbor, Ann Meet at Meijer on Carpenter Road, $129.00 C Suite Rd., Plymouth 2401 The trip will include a visit to the Historic Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Guardian Building, a narrated bus tour of historic Indian Village passing by the Manoogian mansion, and lunch at the historic Whitney Restaurant mansion.(lunch, snacks, and tips included) February 8 OTHER WAYS OF DOING THINGS: ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN ACTIVISM Architecture: Shaping Buildings, Shaping Us Anya Sirota “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Winston Churchill’s Anya Sirota is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of well-known quote is the starting point for our look at the relationship between architecture Architecture and Urban Planning. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on contemporary and our way of living. We start with the early 20th Century, when modern technology and cultural production and its relationship to architecture and urbanism. Sirota is principal of changing social/political relationships in Western Europe led to new thinking about the forms the award-winning design studio Akoaki and director of the Detroit-based Michigan and shapes of the built environment. WWII brought many of the most innovative European Architecture Prep program. She holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate designers to the United States. Michigan played a large, and underappreciated, role in the School of Design and a B.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. development of “Mid-Century Modern.” Stimulated by the auto industry, Scandinavian Speaker’s Synopsis: In the aftermath of Modernism’s perceived urban failures, a cadre of architects, and Americans like Frank Lloyd Wright, Michigan became the center for an organic architects is becoming increasingly aware that a building might not always be the best design philosophy that rejected the classical forms from ancient Greece and Rome. New solution to a spatial problem. The lecture will explore how certain practices are reinventing thinking in the design of furniture, buildings, and cities both reflected and encouraged the the architectural profession, replacing the model of the heroic visionary with a more changes in lifestyle that persist today. The future looks equally exciting. The digital revolution collaborative, experimental, and interdisciplinary approach to work in the built environment. has changed the way we communicate and it will also change the way we construct and February 15 PLAUSIBLE FUTURES: APPROACHING ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN interact with our built environment. There are signs that it can help us to renew places such DESIGN FROM A COMPLEX SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE as the city of Detroit. Prof. Geoffrey Thün Shaping Buildings, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Osher A Community Program of the Geriatrics Center A Architecture: Architecture: The Third 2017-2018 January 11 - February 22, 2018 January 11 Geoffrey Thün is Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean for Research and www.olli-umich.org www.olli-umich.org Thursday Morning Creative Practice at UM’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is a at the University of Michigan founding partner in the research-based practice RVTR. Thün holds an M.U.D. from the Lecture Series Lecture University of Toronto, and a Professional B.Arch. and B.E.S. from the University of Waterloo. Shaping Us He uses a complex systems approach in his work, which ranges in scale from high performance buildings, to cities and regional territories. presents Speaker’s Synopsis: Drawing from examples of Thün’s work, contemporary practice, and what he perceives as the frontiers of research in architecture and urban design, this talk will outline a manifesto for a future of design for the built environment based upon principles of ecological and complex systems. 734-998-9351 February 22 UPDATE ON THE CITY OF DETROIT John Gallagher John Gallagher is a veteran journalist who holds the title of Senior Business Columnist with the Detroit Free Press, where for 30 years he has covered economic development in Detroit and elsewhere. He has published several books on urban affairs including Reimagining Join us for Detroit and Yamasaki in Detroit: A Search for Serenity, a biography of architect Minoru Yamasaki. He and his wife live along the east riverfront in Detroit. lunch after the lecture! See Speaker’s Synopsis: This lecture will present updates on the major new developments taking below. place in Detroit and delve into the controversy over “Two Detroits” – the debate over what’s happening in downtown Detroit versus what’s happening in the neighborhoods. Join other OLLI members for a boxed lunch in the lobby immediately following the February 22nd lecture for some socialization! The cost is $8. You can register for the lunch online or in-person. OLLI will be hosting a lunch once a lecture series. Stay tuned for further details! OLLI Out of Town: Seeing Detroit from the Ground Up Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 48105 MI Arbor, Ann Meet at Meijer on Carpenter Road, $129.00 C Suite Rd., Plymouth 2401 The trip will include a visit to the Historic Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Guardian Building, a narrated bus tour of historic Indian Village passing by the Manoogian mansion, and lunch at the historic Whitney Restaurant mansion.(lunch, snacks, and tips included) January 11 MICHIGAN MODERN: DESIGN THAT SHAPED AMERICA Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Michigan presents Eric J.