Leaving AI in the World of Design: Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Innovation
Speaker: Imen Ameur
Nov 5
Student Lecture Series
Each fall and spring semester the student government sponsors a public lecture series that explores a pertinent theme in the practice of design. Guest speakers are carefully selected and come from around the world to share their unique expertise. The Student Lecture Series is one of many ways that the BAC remains at the forefront of design education.
Upcoming Fall 2025 Lectures
Community as Method, Engagement as Lesson
Speaker: Estello Raganit
Nov 12
2025 Fall Lecture Series: Just Narratives
Mismatch: How Bodies and Spaces Come Together
Speaker: Hannah Wong
Aug 12
Blueprints for Belonging: Creating Environments for Human Flourishing
Speaker: Michael Spicher
Sep 17
Landscapes for Adaptation: Evidence from China in the Work of Kongjian Yu
Childs Memorial Lecture Speaker:
Charles Waldheim
with Yufan Gao
Oct 20
2025 Fall Lecture Series: Just Communities
Creating Home and Community: The Pryde – LGBTQ Affirming Senior Housing
Speakers: Philippe Saad and Jovi Cruces
Jan 14
Creative Impact: Designing a Just Future
Speaker: Kelly Harris Smith
Feb 12
Whose Park?
Speaker: Glen Valentine
Mar 12
Commonalities
Cascieri's 33rd Speaker:
Tatiana Bilbao, Hon'24
Apr 2
Frame
Speaker: Kevin Alter
Apr 16
2024 Fall Lecture Series: Just Futures
Design is a Public Health Intervention
Speaker: Erika Eitland
Aug 13
The Architectures of Magical Realism
Speaker: Alejandro Saldarriaga
Sep 25
Data: Between Fact and Fiction
Speaker: Elisa Ngan
Oct 2
The Power of Interior Design to Impact Positive Futures for People and Communities
Speaker: Felice L. Silverman, MID'14
Oct 16
The Phillips Community and the International African American Museum: Exploring the Landscape of the Low Country
Childs Memorial Lecture Speaker:
Walter J. Hood
Oct 31
2024 Spring Lecture Series: Just Communities
Where Shall I Go? Practices of an Architectural Advocate
Speaker: Bethany Lundell Garver
Apr 10
Taking Imagination Seriously
Cascieri's 32nd Speaker: Janet Echelman
Apr 5
Landscape Dialogues at the BAC
Speakers: Alexandre Champagne, Yufan Gao, and Adam Molinski.
Apr 3
Is AI the End of Architecture?
Speakers: Mahesh Daas and Andrew John Wit
Feb 28
Tiffany Chu Fireside Chat with President Mahesh Daas
Speakers: Tiffany Chu
Feb 7
Parkitecture and Building as Sculpture
Speakers: Lucca Townsend, M.Arch'12, and Ruthie Kuhlman, M.Arch'14
Jan 16
2023 Fall Lecture Series: Just Communities
John Worthington Ames’ Scholarship Lecture
Speakers: Andrew Mitchell, B.Arch'20
Nov 1
Appreciating Material Culture: Banyan Park, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India
Speakers: Billie Tsien, Hon'22, and Paul Schulhof
Oct 18
I Was Asked to Stand
Childs Memorial Lecture Speaker:
Pascale Sablan
Oct 5
When 1 + 1 = 3
Speaker: M. David Lee
Sept 13
DeafSpace: Cultural Origins and Lessons on Inclusive Design for All
Speaker: Hansel Bauman
Aug 15
2023 Spring Lecture Series: Just Environments
(Re)Design: A Vision for the Future
Cascieri's 31st Speaker: Dr. Gilda A. Barabino
Apr 20
Climate Positive Design: Going Beyond Neutral
Speaker: Pamela Conrad
Mar 29
The Artist/Designer: Provocations and Action through the Lens of Creativity
Speaker: Aisha Densmore-Bey
Mar 8
Designing with the Sea: Marine Biomaterials in Architecture
Speaker: Kathryn Larsen
Mar 1
Spatial Processes for Expanding Bodies
Speaker: Quilian Riano
Feb 15
Materials as Collaborators: Teams, Themes, and Trees
Speaker: David M. Foxe
Jan 17
2022 Fall Lecture Series: Just Environments
Designing to the Edges
Speakers: Yulia Bortkevich and Alison Berg
Oct 12
All Environments Are Not Just
Speaker: Lori A. Brown
Oct 5
Errant Praxis: Practicing Architecture Otherwise
Childs Memorial Lecture Speaker: Patricia Anahory, B.Arch'95
Sept 14
Justice at the Intersection of Preservation and Resilience
Speaker: Lydia Lowe
Aug 16
Spring 2022 Lecture Series: Just Design
"I Hear America Singing, The Varied Carols I Hear": Walt Whitman and the Promise of Humanistic Architecture
Cascieri's 30th Speaker: Dr. M. Lee Pelton
Apr 14
An Unexpected Journey: Citizen Professor
Speaker: Kwesi Daniels
Apr 7
Learning from Rwanda
Speaker: Sierra Bainbridge
Mar 9
Race, Nation, and Biocontainment Architecture
Speaker: Chuan Hao Alex Chen
Mar 2
Perception of Lightness
Speaker: Khushnu Panthaki Hoof
Feb 9
Contemporary Ethiopian Architecture
Speakers: David Rifkind and Dawit Benti
Jan 18
Fall 2021 Lecture Series: Just Design
After the Millennium: Contemporary Ethiopian Architecture
Speakers: David Rifkind and Dawit Benti
Nov 18
Unwalling Citizenship
Speakers: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Nov 10
Architecture, More or Less
Childs' Lecture Speaker: Yung Ho Chang
Nov 5
Drawing it Out: Architectural Space and Representation through the Graphic Arts
Speaker: Bishakh Som
Oct 6
Shifting Power through Design
Speaker: Ifeoma Ebo
Aug 17
Spring 2021 Lecture Series: Just Space
Each One Inspire One: A Battle Cry for Design Activism
Cascieri's 29th Speaker: Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton
Apr 8
Social Urbanism: On the Ground
Speaker: María Bellalta
Mar 10
Design, Advocacy and Digital Tools - Reimagining Agency
Speaker: June A. Grant
Feb 24
Power + Place
Speaker: Bryan C. Lee Jr
Feb 10
Equitable Space at Every Scale
Speaker: Natasha Espada
Jan 19
Fall 2020 Lecture Series: Just Space
Authentically You: Histories of Navigating Race and Identity in Data Landscapes
Speaker: Jay Cephas
Nov 11
Mexico-Tenochtitlan: A Lacustrine Landscape between History and Innovation
Speaker: Saúl Alcántara
Nov 4
Harnessing the Vortex: Maximizing a Career in Architecture
Speaker: Katherine Williams
Oct 28
Building A New Arcadia: Reflecting On 20 Years of Work
Child's Lecture Speaker: Juan Miro
Oct 7
Design Without Labels - Design EquityTM Strategies for All People
Speaker: Kia Weatherspoon
Sep 23
Performing Beautifully: Fusion of Design and Performance
Speaker: Andrea Love
Aug 18