2024-2025: Archive: Miller M. Arch Lecture and Exhibition Series: Speaker Series: Events: Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design: Indiana University Bloomington

Marquise Stillwell: Storytelling by Design

Thursday, September 05, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, September 05, 2024, 8 p.m.

Designer Marquise Stillwell discusses how the process of storytelling is an opportunity to bring together communities of knowledge from different disciplines to create new intersections, and therefore create new possibilities for how systems are designed.

BairBalliet (Kelly Bair & Kristy Balliet): Floor Models

Thursday, September 19, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, September 19, 2024, 8 p.m.

A lecture by Kelly Bair & Kristy Balliet of BairBalliet launches their exhibition "Floor Models," which includes a series of models that present a constellation of projects: three houses, two community centers, and a game board that puts the projects into play.

Kate Stewart and Ward Davenny: Architecture of Imagery: Building Two-Dimensional Space

Thursday, October 24, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, October 24, 2024, 8 p.m.

Artists Kate Stewart and Ward Davenny explore aspects of image-making by examining physical, illusory, and poetic conventions of pictorial space. In this lecture, they will share insights on the commonalities between artists’ and architects’ relationships to space, whether illusory or habitable.

Kelly Wilson, Gary Rohrbacher, Anne Filson: Paths Cross

Thursday, November 14, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, November 14, 2024, 8 p.m.

“Paths Cross” is a linked body of paintings and CNC machined bas-relief panels that employ distinct materials and production to explore shared formal and spatial themes. Using processes and techniques instigated through parallel co-creation: Wilson creates vibrant and subdued compositions of layered colors to hold oppositions in tension as Filson & Rohrbacher explore digital craftsmanship by recasting the CNC router as a creative agent.

Nader Tehrani: The Building, in Conversation

Thursday, December 05, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, December 05, 2024, 8 p.m.

Award-winning architect Nader Tehrani's work lies in building bridges between education and practice, creating healthy institutions to ensure equity, democracy, and education for all. In this talk, Tehrani will discuss architectural representation not so much as a pictorial discipline, but as a constructive one.

Murray Legge: Project Round Up

Thursday, January 30, 2025, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, January 30, 2025, 8 p.m.

In this talk, Austin-based architect Murray Legge, FAIA will explore a range of projects undertaken over the past decade by the collaborative office of Murray Legge Architecture, including efforts to address incremental density in residential design, public art and educational spaces designed for children, and a pair of sustainably designed courtyard houses.

Robert Pulley: Breathing into Clay

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 6:30 p.m.—Friday, March 14, 2025, 8 p.m.

Robert Pulley's exhibition "Breathing into Clay" features small-scale ceramic sculptures that explore nature in all its complex interconnections. The Columbus-based artist also works in bronze and stone and makes large-scale public art. An opening reception for the exhibition takes place Thursday, February 20 from 6:30-8 pm.

Marlon and Meryati Blackwell: Radical Practice

Thursday, March 27, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Marlon Blackwell and Meryati Blackwell will discuss their architecture and design process and will introduce “Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects” a new monograph released in June 2022 by Princeton Architectural Press.

David Hytone: Spyglass and Loupe

Thursday, April 03, 2025, 6:30 p.m.—Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 5 p.m.

The J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program Lecture and Exhibition Series presents a talk by David Hytone. A finalist for the 2018 Neddy Award in Painting, Hytone’s images are constructed from hundreds of individual pieces of hand-painted paper.

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