SUAS Lecture Series 2013

"Informing Architecture"

This semester, the SUAS lecture series looks within the architectural profession and beyond to other disciplines with guest speakers including geographers, artists, developers, engineers as well as architects. The aim is of Informing a collaborative approach to and mapping a wider picture of current issues and practices within the urban environment. 

14th Feb: Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield

Title: From cities with no streets to vertical gardens - how we learn to be urban

21st Feb: Elizabeth Turner, TRADA 

Title:‘Beyond tree houses – Timber now and what can be achieved with it’

28th Feb: David Roberts, UCL

Title: Empty words build empty homes

7th March: Greg Penoyre, Penoyre & Prasad

14th March: Rod Heyes, Caruso St. John

11th April: Carl Greenwood, Multistory

18th April: Alastair Parvin, 00:/ (tentative)

25th April: Jonathan Hines, Architype

2nd May: Martin Stockley, Stockley

9th May: Paul Chatterton, LILAC 

16th May: Edward Burtynskey film night

Lectures are every Thursday, Floor 16 Arts Tower (University of Sheffield) at 6pm.