University of Miami School of Architecture
University of Miami School of Architecture
Spring 2025 Tecnoglass Lecture Series
Shade houses, hothouses, palm courts, crystal palaces, greenhouses, corporate atria. The historical development of architecture is intertwined with vegetal life, often trans-plants from one biome to another. The words “vegetal life” underscore the fact that plants are more than leaves and stems represented by scientific herbarium vouchers. They are air, water, soil, fungi, insects, pollinators, and many other microorganisms that support mutual lives together. When plants are uprooted and transplanted, new artificial environments are often required to sustain their growth. Or they adapt, thrive, and become naturalized in new ecologies. What does it mean to design with vegetal life?
The Spring 2025 Lecture Series explores the relationships between architecture and vegetal life. A “vegetal turn” underway in different fields of knowledge argues that learning from vegetal life will inform new research methods as well as epistemic, social, and material relations beyond the tenants of modern thoughts. As architects and landscape architects, we ask, how does designing for and with vegetal life shape alternative design processes and building practices? How does it shift assumptions about permanence and expertise in architectural and landscape productions? How can the act of planting empower marginalized human and more-than-human communities?
February 5
Sebastián Adamo
adamo-faiden architects
February 19
Sara Zewde
Studio Zewde / Harvard University GSD
February 26
Frédéric Chartier & Pascale Dalix
ChartierDalix
March 19
Marc Tsurumaki
LTL Architects / Columbia University GSAPP
April 2
Rodolphe el-Khoury, Rocco Ceo, Shawna Meyer, & Lily Chishan Wong
University of Miami School of Architecture
The lecture series is curated by Lily Chishan Wong, a registered architect devoted to addressing the urgency of ecological justice and the legacy of colonialism through creating spaces, systems, performances, texts, and media. She is currently assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture and former faculty at Columbia University GSAPP and Syracuse University.
Time
5:30pm Reception / 6:30pm Lecture
Address
Glasgow Hall, Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center
University of Miami School of Architecture
1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, Fl 33146
Online
The events will be live-streamed, visit here for information
Sponsors: Tecnoglass / Miami Chapter of American Institute of Architects