Michael Bierut, principal designer for Pentagram Design in New York, will launch the Washington University School of Architecture’s fall Monday Night Lecture Series Sept. 13 with a Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture on Graphic Design, Big and Small.
Bierut, a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art, writes frequently about design and is co-editor of the anthology series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design. His work at Pentagram — which includes identity design, environmental graphic design and editorial design solutions — has won hundreds of design awards and is represented in several permanent collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, both in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany.
In all, the fall Monday Night Lecture series will include 16 presentations by established masters and emerging talents from England, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands and across the United States. Other highlights include a Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture on Constructing the Ephemeral by artist James Carpenter, principal of James Carpenter Design Associates, New York (Oct. 20); and presentations by three innovative engineers, Guy Nordenson (Oct. 18), Tim Macfarlane (Oct. 25) and Cecil Balmond (Nov. 22). The series will conclude Nov. 29 with a talk by Emily Pulitzer, founder and president of St. Louis’ Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
All lectures are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. Mondays in Steinberg Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Steinberg Auditorium is located in Steinberg Hall, near the intersection of Forsyth and Skinker boulevards. A reception will be held prior to each talk at 6:30 p.m. in Givens Hall, just west of Steinberg. For more information, call (314) 935-6200 or visit www.arch.wustl.edu.
The complete schedule of lectures is as follows:
Sept. 13
Michael Bierut
Principal Designer
Pentagram Design, New York
A Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture
Graphic Design, Big and Small
Sept. 20
Dan Rockhill
Professor of Architecture
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Hand & Mind
6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21
Piero Lissoni
Designer
Studio Lissoni, Milan, Italy
Sponsored by Centro and Kartell
Piero Lissoni: Design Stories
Sept. 27
Louise Harpman & Scott Specht
Architects
Harpman/Specht Architects
New York/Austin
Found
Wednesday, Sept. 29
Eric Mumford
Associate professor
School of Architecture, Washington University
Modern Architecture in St. Louis
Monday, Oct. 4
Carlos Jimenez
Architect
Carlos Jimenez Studios, Houston
The 2004 Coral Courts Lecture
Reflections and Recent Work
Tuesday, Oct.5
Juhani Pallasmaa
Architect, Helsinki, Finland
Raymond E. Maritz Visiting Professor, Washington University
Immateriality & Transparency
Oct. 11
James Timberlake
Architect
Kieran Timberlake Architects, Philadelphia
New Worlds
Oct. 18
Guy Nordenson
Structural engineer
Guy Nordenson & Associates, New York
Work: In Theory & Practice
Wednesday, Oct. 20
James Carpenter
Artist
James Carpenter Design Associates, New York
A Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture
Constructing the Ephemeral
Oct. 25
Tim Macfarlane
Materials Engineer
Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners, London
Structural Glass – Breaking New Ground
Nov. 1
Stephen Leet
Associate Professor
School of Architecture, Washington University
Richard Neutra’s Miller House
Nov. 8
Joshua Ramus
Architect, partner
OMA: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, P.C., New York,/Rotterdam
Checking Modernism’s Baggage
Nov. 15
Robert Gutman
Professor
School of Architecture, Princeton University
Design as an Organizational Asset
Nov. 22
Cecil Balmond
Director of European Operations
Arup Associates, London
The 2004 Cannon Lecture for Excellence in Architecture & Engineering
Informal
Nov. 29
Emily Pulitzer
President
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
The 2004 Eugene Mackey Lecture
The Making of the Pulitzer Foundation