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The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Building Better Futures: Innovations in Equitable Development

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Cities have made a remarkable comeback, however large swaths of their populations are being left behind. Developers, lenders, advocates, and policy makers work to mitigate these disparities by creating innovative solutions and opportunity through equitable development. Now more than ever, new approaches are required to make cities places where individuals and families can thrive. At

The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture: Mabel O. Wilson, “Memory/Race/Nation: The Politics of Modern Memorials”

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Mabel O. Wilson is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL) and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. She’s currently writing Building Race and Nation, a book about how slavery influenced early American civic architecture. She has authored Begin with the Past:

LECTURE: ANANYA ROY, “THE CITY IN THE AGE OF TRUMPISM: FROM SANCTUARY TO ABOLITION”

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography and inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. She holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy. Previously she was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Ananya’s research and scholarship has a determined focus on

John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture: Kunlé Adeyemi

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

NLÉ is led by Kunlé Adeyemi, an architect, designer and ‘urbanist’ with a track record of conceiving and completing high profile, high-quality projects internationally. His recent work includes ‘Makoko Floating School’, an innovative, prototype, floating structure located on the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. This acclaimed project is part of an extensive research

Lecture: Faye Nelson, “Courage and Commitment; The Spirit of Sojourner Truth in the Restoration of Detroit’s Riverfront”

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Faye Nelson, DTE Energy vice president and board chair and president of the DTE Energy Foundation, who led the historic renovation of Detroit’s riverfront, will discuss how Sojourner Truth’s characteristics of courage and commitment were main drivers in the transformation of Detroit’s riverfront. This lecture will give you a sneak peek into the development of

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LECTURE: DANA CUFF, “ACT LIKE AN ARCHITECT!”

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Dana Cuff is a professor of architecture at the UCLA where she is also Director of cityLAB, an award-winning think tank that explores design innovations in the emerging metropolis (www.cityLAB.aud.ucla.edu). Since receiving her Ph.D. in Architecture from Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about urban design, the architectural profession, affordable housing, and spatially embedded

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SYMPOSIUM: AMBIGUOUS TERRITORY: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, AND THE POSTNATURAL

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Free and open to the public Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced

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TAUBMAN GOES TO THE MOVIES: “EERO SAARINEN: THE ARCHITECT WHO SAW THE FUTURE”

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Join us for a viewing of PBS' American Masters series about Eero Saarinen. Film length: 68 minutes. Explore the life of Finnish-American modernist architectural giant Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), whose visionary buildings include National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center in Michigan. Saarinen also designed New York’s

Taubman College Exhibition on View: Architecture Fellows

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Exhibition On View: March 24 - April 30, 2016 "Fellow Fellows" The exhibition of projects of the 2015-2016 Architecture Fellows opens on Wednesday, March 23 and runs through the end of the Winter term (May 2). The Fellows will present their projects to the college at 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium. The projects present their ongoing research during their

Lecture: Esra Akcan

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents…“Open Architecture”, a lecture by Esra Akcan. Esra Akcan’s scholarly work on a geopolitically conscious global history of architecture inspires her teaching. Her research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe and West Asia. Her book Architecture in

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Raoul Wallenburg Lecture: Rahul Mehrotra

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents…“Working in Mumbai: Architecture in a World of Inequity”, a lecture by Rahul Mehrotra. Rahul Mehrotra is Professor of Urban Design and Planning. He is a practicing architect, urban designer, and educator. His firm, RMA Architects, was founded in 1990 in Mumbai and has

Lecture: Sam Jacob

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Sam Jacob is a founding director of FAT, architect, writer and critic. He has most recently been the partner in charge of the Hoogvliet Heerlijkheid project in Holland a park, cultural centre and community facilities completed in October '08 and developed in collaboration with WiMBY! The project explores ideas of Pop, populism and participation which

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