Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas
Design by Morcos Key
This year, the Buell Center continues and concludes its series of “Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas” which began in Winter 2021. The theme of land, and the plural, Americas, is meant to help expand the Center’s mission in two ways: first, by situating US building practices comparatively in hemispheric relation with the rest of the continent; and second, by suggesting that there are several Americas within the United States. This Fall, we will host speakers who turn our attention to architecture’s role in the political economy of land.
In celebration of the Buell’s 40th Anniversary and its participation in the 5th Annual Chicago Architecture Biennial, events will be held in various locations throughout New York City and Chicago. All events will be held in person and on Zoom, as well as live-streamed to GSAPP’s YouTube channel here. Please email [email protected] to RSVP or register for the Zoom link on the event's page.
Thursday 29th February 2024, 12 pm | A conversation between Stella Nair (UCLA) and Caroline Murphy (MIT); Ateya Khorakiwala (Columbia GSAPP) will provide a response
November 16, 2023, 6pm CST/ 7pm EST| A conversation between Łukasz Stanek (University of Michigan), Ana María León (Harvard GSD), with Jacobé Huet (University of Chicago)
October 12, 2023, 12pm | A conversation between Deepa Ramaswamy (University of Houston) and Amiel Bizé (Cornell University), with Reinhold Martin (Columbia University)
October 20, 2022, 12pm | A conversation between Vanessa Agard-Jones (Columbia University), Seth Denizen (Princeton University), and Linda F. Chavez Baca (JGMA), with Catherine Fennell (Columbia University)
February 3, 2023, 12pm | A conversation between Brenna Bhandar (University of British Columbia) and Mabel Wilson (Columbia University)
December 8, 2022, 12pm | A conversation between Zeynep Çelik Alexander (Columbia University) and Aleksandr Bierig (University of Chicago) with Jonathan Levy (University of Chicago)
October 27, 2022, 12pm | A conversation between Tatiana Bilbao (Tatiana Bilbao Estudio) and Michael Meredith (MOS Architects) with Gary Leggett (Leggett & Cahuas)
April 7, 2022, 12pm | A conversation between Stéphanie Barral (Sociologist at the French National Institute for Agronomic and Environmental Research) and Timothy Mitchell (William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University)
March 24, 2022, 12pm | A conversation between Benedict Clouette (Doctoral Student in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP) and Alma Steingart (Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University)
February 24, 2022, 12pm | A conversation between Joseph Kunkel (Director, Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab at MASS Design Group) and Teresa Montoya (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago)
October 27, 2022, 12pm
Modern architecture’s social aspirations always seemed to require a lot of land—this is one of its most mixed legacies. In this conversation, architects Tatiana Bilbao, Michael Meredith, and Gary Leggett compare notes on recent and current projects in Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru that cover vast ground. They will address the formal and social possibilities that are opened by large-scale buildings in these different social and political contexts, including land-intensive housing projects, parks, and long-distance works such as pilgrimage routes.
Tatiana Bilbao, architect, born in 1972, began her eponymous studio in 2004. Prior to founding her architecture studio, she was an Advisor in the Ministry of Development and Housing of the Government of the Federal District of Mexico City. Bilbao holds a recurrent visiting teaching position at Yale University School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard University GSD, Columbia University GSAPP, Rice University, AA in London Summer School, University of Andrés Bello in Chile, and Peter Behrens School of Arts at Dusseldorf in Germany. Bilbao’s studio has work across typologies and in different parts of the world, for which she has been recognized with several distinctions, among those: the Kunstpreis Berlin in 2012, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize by the LOCUS Foundation in 2014, the Marcus Prize Award 2019, Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal of the ACSA 2020, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) 2021, and the Richard Neutra Award in 2022.
Michael Meredith is a partner at MOS with Hilary Sample, and a Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture.
Gary Leggett is a Peruvian architect, founder of Leggett & Cahuas. He is a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) in Lima and serves currently as deputy director at the Center for Architectural and Urban Research (CIAC) at PUCP. Leggett holds a B.A. in architecture from Princeton University and master’s degree in architecture from Yale University. He was the recipient of the 2012 George Nelson award at Yale, the 2008 Ronald Druker Fellowship, and the Stanley Stein Thesis Prize at Princeton. He was also a researcher in design at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht from 2009 to 2010.
Organized as one of the “Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas” by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at GSAPP.
