The College of Art + Design Lecture Series has been enhancing the education of students and contributing to the community’s quality of life since 1999. Below is a list of the speakers that have participated in the College’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Select lectures are available for view through our media site, you may visit the site for a full listing of lecture media.
2011-2012
Branko Kolarevic 09/14/11@4:30p.m.
Associate Dean/Chair, University of Calgary
Trahan Architects lecture
Thaisa Way 09/21/11@5p.m.
Associate Professor/Landscape Historian, University of Washington
Catherine Memorial lecture series (Longvue Gardens)
Lori Ryker 09/27/11@5p.m.
Director, Artemis Institute
Marie M. Bickham Chair lecture
Deborah Berke 10/19/11@4:30p.m.
Partner, Deborah Berke & Partners
Professor, Yale University
Grace & Hebert Associates
Seth Curcio, Visual Artist/ Managing Editor
Julie Henson, Graphic Designer/Principal,Thinking Caps Design
10/26/11@5p.m.
School of Art lecture
Howard Chaykin 10/28/11@2p.m.
Writer/Artist
School of Art/ Dept. of English lecture
Linda Weintraub 11/09/11@5p.m.
Founder/Editor, Artnow Publications
Paula G. Manship lecture
Kenneth Brown 11/21/11@5p.m.
Interior Designer, Kenneth Brown Design
Department of Interior Design lecture
Jesus Moroles 01/18/12@5p.m.
Sculptor/Artist
School of Art lecture
Byron Stigge, Associate Principal
Joe Mulligan, Senior Engineer
02/01/12@4:30 p.m.
Buro Happold Engineers, Ltd.
The Gensler lecture
Marc Tsurumaki 02/08/12@4:30p.m.
Principal, LTL Architects
Eskew + Dumez + Ripple lecture
Mary Miss 02/15/12@5p.m.
Sculptor/Artist
Paula G. Manship lecture
Walton Ford 02/29/12@5p.m.
Painter/Artist
Paula G. Manship lecture
Charles Waldheim 03/01/12@5p.m.
Chair, landscape architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design
Max Z. Conrad lecture series
Gary Smith 03/14/12@5p.m.
Landscape Architect/Principal, W. Gary Smith Design
Nadine Carter Russell Chair lecture
Karsten Harries 03/21/12@5 p.m.
Philosopher/Arch Theoretician
Paula G. Manship lecture
Kate Orff 03/26/12@5 p.m.
Assistant Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture
Director, Urban Landscape Lab, Columbia University Planning and Preservation
Founder/ Principal, SCAPE
Paula G. Manship lecture
Clare Twomey 03/28/12@5p.m.
Ceramicist/Artist
Paula G. Manship lecture
Ken Frampton 04/04/12@5p.m.
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Columbia University
Paula G. Manship lecture
2010-2011
Kongjian Yu 09/09/10@5p.m.
Dean/Professor, Peking University
President, Turenscape
Atsuhiko Musashi 10/06/10@5p.m.
Visual Artist/Vice President, Kyoto Seika University
Tricia Stuth & Ted Shelton 10/20/10@5p.m.
Professors/Architects, University of Tennessee
Cofounders/Partners, curb
Lisa Findley 10/27/10@4:30p.m.
Professor/Chair, California College of the Arts
Walter J. Hood 11/05/10@5p.m.
Professor, University of California Berkeley
Principal, Hood Design
Suzanna Turner & William Moorish 11/10/10
Jonathan Segal 11/17/10@4:30p.m.
Principal, Jonathan Segal FAIA and Development Company
Guy Nordenson 02/09/11@4:30p.m.
Professor/Architect, Princeton University
Principal, Guy Nordenson & Associates
Walter Bortolossi 02/23/11@5p.m.
Painter/Artist
Patricio del Real 03/30/11@4:30p.m.
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
Clare Twomey 04/06/11@5p.m.
Ceramicist/Artist
2009-2010
Alec Soth 09/02/09@5p.m.
Photographer, Alec Soth Photography
Nadine Carter Russell Chair
School of Art
John Cary 09/16/09@5p.m.
Executive Director/Architect, Public Architecture
Paula G. Manship Lecture
Lori Brown 10/07/09@4:30p.m.
Associate Professor, Syracuse University
School of Architecture
Phoebe Crisman 10/14/09@4:30p.m.
Professor/Architect, University of Virginia
The Gensler Lecture
School of Architecture
Michael Ray Charles 11/04/09@5p.m.
Professor/Artist, University of Texas at Austin
Paula G. Manship Lecture
School of Art
Tim Johnson 11/11/09@4:30p.m.
Partner, NBBJ, New York, NY
Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Lecture
School of Architecture
Coleman Coker 11/18/09@4:30p.m.
Professor/Architect, Tulane University
Coleman Partners Lecture
School of Architecture
Alec Soth 11/19/09@5p.m.
Photographer, Alec Soth Photography
Nadine Carter Russell Chair
School of Art
Lori Ryker 01/27/10@4:30p.m.
Director, Artemis Institute
Coleman Partners Lecture
School of Architecture
Seth McDowell 02/03/10@4:30p.m.
Professional in Residence
Nadine Carter Russell Chair
School of Architecture
Roy Decker and Anne Marie Duvall 02/10/10@4:30p.m.
Architects, Duvall Decker Architects PA, Jackson, MS
Coleman Partners Lecture
School of Architecture
Gao Minglu 02/24/10@5p.m.
Art Historian, University of Pittsburg
Paula G. Manship Lecture
School of Architecture
Angela Danadjieva 03/17/10@5p.m.
Enviromental Designer, Danadjieva & Koenig Associates, San Francisco, CA
Paula G. Manship Lecture
Ursula Emery McClure + Michael McClure 03/24/10@5p.m.
Professors/Architects/Fellows of the American, Academy in Rome
School of Architecture
2008-2009
Kyoko Ibe 09/03/08@5p.m.
Installation Artist, Paper Art
Garth Johnson 09/24/08@5p.m.
Ceramicist
Winka Dubbeldam 10/15/08@4:30p.m.
Principal, Archi-Tectonics, New York, NY
CANCELLED New Date TBA
Bastienne Schmidt 10/22/08@5p.m.
Photographer
Antonino Saggio 10/29/08@5p.m.
Architect/Theoretician, Digital Design
The Art Guys 10/30/08@6p.m.
Collaborative Art Team
Dorothy Glass 11/05/08@5p.m.
Art Historian, Medieval Academy of America
Nadim Khattar 11/12/08@4:30p.m.
Director, Austin Smith Lord, London, England
Miguel Rivera and Juan Miro 11/19/08@4:30p.m.
Architects, Miro Rivera Architects, Austin, TX
Ken Smith 01/21/09@5p.m.
Landscape Architect, Ken Smith Landscape Architecture, New York, NY
Maria Luisa Palumbo 01/28/09@4:30p.m.
Director of Master in Digital Architecture, National Institution of Architecture, Rome, Italy
Larry Scarpa 02/04/09@4:30p.m.
Principal, Pugh + Scarpa Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
Carol Patterson 02/11/09@4:30p.m.
Architect, OMA, London, England
Larry Sass 02/18/09@5p.m.
Architect, Director of Design Fabrication Group, MIT
James Surls 03/11/09@5p.m.
Sculptor, Carbondale, CO
Peter Frank 03/18/09@5p.m.
Contemporary Art Critic, Los Angeles CA
Laurie Olinder 03/25/09@5p.m.
Painter, Set Designer, New York, NY
2007-2008
Casey Reas 09/12/07@5p.m.
Digital Media, Manship Lecture Series
J. Marshall Strabala 09/12/07@4:30p.m.
Director of Design, Gensler Houston, The Gensler Architecture Lecture Series
Bill Braham 10/15/07@5p.m.
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Manship Lecture Series
EB Min & Jeff Day 10/24/07@4:30p.m.
Exhibition of Min/Day work from 10/22-11/16, The Washer Hill & Lipscomb Architecture Lecture Series
Charles Berman
11/07/07@4:30p.m.
Associate OMA*AMO, New York School of Architecture, The Page Southerland Page Architecture Lecture Series
Linda Norden 11/14/07@5p.m.
Art Curator, Manship Lecture
Sam Corso 11/16/07@9:30a.m .
William R. Moorish 01/30/08@5p.m.
Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, Manship Lecture
Shashi Caan 02/20/08@5p.m.
Interior Designer, Manship Lecture Series
Robert Young 02/27/08@4:30p.m.
Associate Partner, Polshek Partnership Architects, The Grace and Hebert Architects Architecture Lecture Series
Donald Kunze 03/05/08@5p.m.
Professor of Architecture and Integrative Arts, Pennsylvania State University, Russell Chair Lecture
Stephen Westfall 03/12/08@5p.m.
Painter, Manship Lecture Series
Selma Catovic and Micheal Hughes 04/02/08@4:30p.m.
Catovic Hughes Design, The Ken Harry and Associates Architecture Lecture Series
Kara Walker
04/16/08@5p.m.
Artist and Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University
2006-2007
Michael Sorkin 09/27/06@4:30p.m.
Anu Mathur 10/11/06@5p.m.
Landscape Architect, Manship Lecture Series
Ramesh Srinivasan 10/25/06@5p.m.
Digital Media, Manship Lecture Series
Alexander Lamis 11/01/06@4:30p.m.
Architect, Chenevert Architects Architecture Lecture Series
Peter Anderson and Mark Anderson 11/08/06@5p.m.
Architects, Washer Hill & Lipscomb Architecture Lecture Series
Bruce Anderson
11/15/06@5p.m.
Architect, Page Southernland Page Architecture Lecture Series
Ted Flato
01/24/07@4:30p.m.
Architect, Washer Hill & Lipscomb Architecture Lecture Series
Shazia Sikander 02/07/07@5p.m.
Painter, Manship Lecture Series
Bill Morrison 02/14/07@5p.m.
Film Maker, Manship Lecture Series
Manual Delanda 02/28/07@4:30p.m.
Architect, Architecture Lecture Series (co-sponsored by the LSU Center for French & Francophone Studies, the LSU Department of French Studies and the LSU Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies)
Mark Harbrick 03/21/07@5p.m.
Designer, Manship Lecture Series
Carrie Scanga 03/28/07@5p.m.
Visiting Artist, School of Art Professional in Residence
Kal Spelletich 04/11/07@5p.m.
Artist, Manship Lecture Series
2005-2006
Kevin Risk 09/14/05
Landscape Architect
Lake Douglas 09/21/05
Landscape Architect
Ray Huff
10/26/05
Architect
William Stanley 11/02/05
Architect
Roberta Washington 11/16/05
Architect
Richard Gluckman 01/25/06
Architect, Manship Lecture
Erik Hemingway 02/01/06
Architect, Nadine Carter Russell Chair
Erik Spiekermann
02/08/06
Graphic Designer, Manship Lecture
Kara Walker
02/15/06
Artist, School of Art Artist in Residence
Lisa Benham 02/22/06
Architect
Niall Kirkwood 04/05/06
Landscape Architect, Manship Lecture
2004-2005
Marco Frascari 09/29/04
Architect, Verso and Recto: A New Perspective of Architectural Imagination
Nancy Reddin Kienholz 10/27/04
Photographer, Keinholz: A Retrospective
Peter Schjeldahl
01/26/05
Art Critic, What Art is For Now
Thorbjörn Anderson 03/16/05
Landscape Architect, Nine Pine Forests–Contemporary Scandinavian Landscape Design
Dorothée Imbert 03/30/05
Landscape Architect, Design Matters: A Look at Current European Landscape Practices
Peter W. Pfau
04/06/05
Architect, Passing Speculations on the Role of Human Emotions in Architecture
2003-2004
Merrill Elam 09/10/03
Architect, Recent Work
Elizabeth Murray 09/29/03
Painter, My Work
Peter Walker 10/29/03
Landscape Architect, Minimalist Gardens
Judith Joy Ross
11/12/03
Photographer, Not Knowing
Philip Grausman 11/19/03
Sculptor, Discovering Form
Douglas Davis 01/28/04
New Media Artist & Theorist, Co-sponsored by the Lab for Creative Arts and Technologies, a program of LSU Capital, and the Baton Rouge Video Project
Billy Collins 02/29/04
U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003, An Evening with Billy Collins, Co-sponsored by Readers & Writers
R. Allen Eskew 03/17/04
Architect & Planner, Tropic of Cancer @ 90º W
Eva Maddox
03/24/04
Interior Designer, Patterns of the Future
2002-2003
Christopher Pillet
09/04/02
Design France: Génération 2001, Supported in part by the Association Francaise d’Action Artisque, Consulate General of France, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the LSU Center for French and Francophone Studies, and the Valorisation de I’Innovation dans l’Ameublement.
John Alexander
09/18/02
Art, Society and Other Forms of Madness
Eva Maddox 10/03/02
Patterns of the Future
Dan Rockhill 10/23/02
Design and Construction, Hand and Hand
Keith Carter 02/05/03
A Certain Alchemy
Athena Tacha 03/19/03
Athena Tacha://self/universe
Douglas Reed 03/26/03
Places of Sanctuary: The Domestic Garden and Therapeutic Garden
2001-2002
Robert Storr 10/01/01
Irony? Skepticism? Cynicism? The Slippery Language of DIsbelief in Contemporary Art
Donald Kunze 10/08/01
So Near and Yet So Far Away: Trkcy Boundaries in Mystery Stories, Film and Architecture
Lewis Watts
10/24/01
The Cultural Landscape: South to West Oakland: The Photographic Exploration of Traces of Experience, Culture and History in African American Environments
Xu Bing
11/14/01
Art by Xu Bing
Mario Schjetnan 02/06/02
Design Narrative: Architecture, Nature and the City: A Perspectivefrom Mexico
Suzanne Tillotson
02/20/02
Lighting in Design
Buzz Spector 03/06/02
Shelf Life: The Art of Buzz Spector
2000-2001
Ann Hamilton
09/13/00
An Artist and Her Work
Eric Owen Moss 09/27/00
Through a Glass Darkly
Frederick and Laurie Smith
N.O.I. = Space + Time = (?) Money & Power, Co-sponsored by Plan Baton Rouge and AIA-LA
Kenneth Jackson 10/11/00
The Challenge of Metropolitan Sprawl: The Past and Future of New Orleans
Alexander Garvin
11/15/00
Public Spaces: A Parks Agenda for the 21st Century
Gideon Sarig 01/24/01
Rock, Tree, Man & Landscape in the Biblical Land
Dan Hoffman
02/14/01
Building Art
Gregory Watson 02/28/01
Debris(Observing Things Relieved of Duty), Nadine Carter Russell Endowed Chair Lecture
James Elkins 03/14/01
The Unrepresentable: Recent Images in Painting, Photography, Astrophysics, Particle Physics, and “Genetic Art”
Laurie Olin 04/04/01
“Urban Landscapes”: Ecologically Diverse, Healthy, Socially Just and Spiritually Rewarding?
1999-2000
Jon Pickard 09/01/99
Architecture: Form and Purpose
Sandy Skoglund
09/15/99
Everything Matters
Angela Danadjieva 10/06/99
Environmental Mitigation
Wang Weili, Yang Xianrang and Zhang Pingliang
11/03/99
Western Art from Chinese Hands
Warren Schwartz
01/26/00
Dialogue by Design: Realizing the New LSU Museum of Art
Robert Cahen 02/04/00
The Sight of Time
Anibal Figueroa
03/22/00
Contemporary Mexican Architecture: Bioclimatic Context
Richard Renfro
04/19/00
Light is the Messenger
