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Autumn 2024 Baumer Lecture Series
The Knowlton School is pleased to announce the Autumn 2024 Baumer Lecture Series. For autumn 2024, the series returns to Knowlton Hall’s Gui Auditorium for eight in-person lectures.
Speakers
Todd BenDor: September 11 / Philippe Rahm: September 18 / Carie Penabad & Adib Cúre: September 25 / Emmanuel Thingue: October 16 / Mack Scogin & Merrill Elam: October 23 / Jacqueline M. Klopp: October 30 / Juan Herreros & Fernanda Canales: November 6 / Dredge Research Collaborative: November 13.
All lectures are free and open to the public. The Baumer Series invites prominent researchers and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning to present their work and to engage subjects both topical and enduring.
New Knowlton leadership and faculty
Ann Pendleton-Jullian named interim Director of the Knowlton School: Architecture Professor Ann Pendleton-Jullian has been appointed Interim Director of the Knowlton School. Pendleton-Jullian previously served as Director of the Knowlton School from 2007–11.
“I am thrilled to again serve the Knowlton community in the role of director, this time as interim while we engage in a search for a new director,” said Pendleton-Jullian. “It is a very different context since I last sat in this office— internally, within the college, at the university level, and globally. Our “jobs” as architects, landscape architects, and planners have new frameworks, methods, and tools to experiment with and new concerns to face. It is a moment of great opportunity for the school.”
Curtis Roth named interim Section Head of Architecture: Associate Professor of Architecture Curtis Roth has been named interim section head of the Architecture Section. Roth was the 2012–13 Richard W. Trott ’61 Distinguished Visiting Professor and the 2013–14 Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship before joining the Knowlton School as an assistant professor in 2014.
“I am delighted that Curtis Roth has accepted to serve as the interim section head of the Architecture Section at the Knowlton School,” said Interim Knowlton School Director Ann Pendleton-Jullian. “His commitment and care as a teacher and his strength as a creative researcher whose work integrates science, art, engineering, and architecture with both information and making technologies as affordances have well positioned him within the architecture section as one of its contemporary forces. He bridges the section’s historical strengths with exciting new directions in the field.”
New faculty
Knowlton is pleased to announce that three new faculty have joined the Architecture Section.
Stephanie Davidson
Stephanie Davidson will join the Knowlton School as assistant professor. Davidson, together with Georg Rafailidis, formed DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS. The interest underlying much of their work is the friction between the original design intentions for spaces and buildings, and the much richer built reality and unpredictable lives that buildings inevitably have. In most of their work, they study existing built conditions—sometimes these studies evolve into built works and sometimes the studies take the form of documentation (drawings, photographs, writing).
Mohamad Nahleh
Mohamad Nahleh will join the Knowlton School as assistant professor. His interests include postcolonial literature, urban theory, Arab history and mythology, and Islamic cosmology. His research and practice work to decenter Western conceptions of darkness and the night. Rather than a backdrop against which contemporary modes of practice might be celebrated, the night in his work acquires a political sovereignty that dismantles the strict link between ‘night design’ and operations that strive to repress darkness—physically or symbolically—through illumination.
Georg Rafailidis
Georg Rafailidis will join the Knowlton School as associate professor. Rafailidis is co-founder of DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS, a collective whose work has been recognized internationally for low-cost approaches to construction and adaptive re-use and is a member of the Fulbright Specialist program for his expertise in these areas.
2024 Herbert Baumer Memorial Seminar
The 2024 Herbert Baumer Memorial Seminars will focus on the work of Fernanda Canales and Juan Herreros. The Baumer Seminar offers advanced architecture students the opportunity to engage with noted architectural practitioners and theorists from inside and outside the field.
Fernanda Canales is an architect based in Mexico City focused on designing better relations between buildings, people, and the environment. She has been recognized by The New York Times as one of the ten female figures changing the landscape of leadership in the world and her firm was named one of the world’s 100 Best Architecture Firms by Domus magazine.
Juan Herreros holds a PhD and MArch in architecture with 40 years of practice. He is a Chair Professor of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture and Senior Professor of Professional Practice at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University in New York.
Knowlton Stories
Knowlton Hall, Banvard Gallery (opening October 23)
In celebration of Knowlton Hall’s 20th anniversary, Knowlton Stories examines the design and construction process of the award-winning building by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects and landscapes by Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates. The exhibition presents archival materials—drawings, models, photographs—and interviews to uncover the stories behind the making of Knowlton Hall. An extraordinary collaboration on a remarkable commission—a school of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning—illustrates a commitment to formal innovation and technical ingenuity in the service of pedagogy. Inaugurated in October 2004, the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture remains timeless in its expression of architecture and landscape as tools for teaching.
