2023 Spring Lecture Series: David M. Foxe

Default design and construction processes often assume a sequence where massing precedes form, form precedes material, specified materials “belong” to one discipline or another, and the eventual choices of materials become products subject to ongoing alternatives. Given that the non-architectural public often seeks resonance and meaning in the experience of materials and craft, why not pursue such considerations simultaneously rather than sequentially? What if one more fully considered how intrinsically chosen materials and systems can embody more purposes and values, recognizing the benefits and challenges thereof? How would this approach to materials as collaborators illuminate the human involvement at each step, and expand the possibilities for tectonic expression?

Thank you to those who joined us in person in Cascieri Hall or on Zoom.

Architects earned AIA CEU credit by attending this lecture.