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Woodbury’s School of Architecture will present a Spring 2009 Lecture + Discussions Series, New Prosperities: Contemporary Ideas for the Future of Urban Centers in the American West.
Small groups of critics, writers, planners and designers will come together to make short presentations and have moderated discussions on the infrastructure of sustainability. Presentations and discussion will consider the cultural, economic, and environmental dimensions of prosperity:
- How, through the remaking of our cities, can we foster the particulars of place and identity in the face of global monoculture?
- How can growth agendas be defined by local and community concerns and values?
- What is the role of the (landscape, architect, urban) designer in visualizing alternative possibilities for the overtaxed landscapes and outdated economies of the urban West?
Please join us:
Monday, February 23:
Reformulating Infrastructures: Part 1, moderated by Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the LA Times
Monday, March 23:
Reformulating Infrastructures, Part 2, moderated by Frances Anderton, host of DnA on KCRW.
The series is free and open to the public.
Each event begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Ahmanson Main Space, Woodbury University, 7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA. Please see poster for more details. Spring 2009 lecture series
Woodbury School of Architecture specifically emphasizes, analyzes, and debates the role of the architect/citizen as cultural communicator and builder responsive to societal, cultural, and environmental challenges.