Michael Bierut, principal designer for Pentagram Design in New York, will launch the 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, frequently writes 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 awards and is represented in several permanent collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art 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 Hall Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. A reception will be held prior to each talk at 6:30 p.m. in Givens Hall.
For more information, call 935-6200 or go online to www.arch.wustl.edu.
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Monday Night Lecture schedule The School of Architecture’s fall Monday Night Lecture Series 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. “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, Texas. “Found.” Wednesday, Sept. 29: Eric Mumford, associate professor, WUSTL School of Architecture. “Modern Architecture in St. Louis.” 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, WUSTL. “Immateriality & Transparency.” Oct. 11: James Timberlake, 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, WUSTL School of Architecture. “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.” |