50th Anniversary Lecture Series, Conversation 2

This particular conversation will consider the following sub-question: "As our very notion of the urban rapidly transforms, how can landscape and urbanism support ecology, sociality and equality?”
 
This conversation features Teresa Gali-Izard and Neeraj Bhatia.

Teresa Gali-Izard is an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and the principal of ARQUITECTURA AGRONOMIA, a landscape architecture firm located in Barcelona. In the last 20 years she has been involved in some of the most important contemporary landscape architecture projects in Europe, including TMB Park, Coastal Park, the new urbanization of Passeig de Sant Joan in Barcelona and the Sant Joan Landfill restoration, which won the European Urban Public Space award in 2004. Gali-Izard is the author of “The Same Landscapes. Ideas and Interpretations”, published by Gustavo Gili in 2005.

Neeraj Bhatia is a licensed architect and urban designer from Toronto, Canada. His work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure and urbanism. He is an Assistant Professor at the California College of the Arts where he also co-directs the urbanism research lab, The Urban Works Agency. Prior to CCA, Bhatia held teaching positions at Cornell University, Rice University and the University of Toronto. Neeraj is also the founder of The Open Workshop, a transcalar design-research office examining the negotiation between architecture and its territorial environment. In 2016, The Open Workshop was awarded the Architectural League Young Architects Prize. Select other distinctions include the Emerging Leaders Award from Design Intelligence, Graham Foundation Grants, The Lawrence B. Anderson Award, Shell Center for Sustainability Grant, Odebrecht first-prize Award for Sustainability, ACSA Faculty Design Award and the Fullbright Fellowship. He is co-editor of books Bracket [Takes Action], The Petropolis of Tomorrow, Bracket [Goes Soft], Arium: Weather + Architecture, and co-author of Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling – Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism. Neeraj has a Master degree in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Waterloo.

When: 

Monday, November 13^th, 2017 at 6:30pm

Where: 

University of Waterloo – School of Architecture

7 Melville Street South

Cambridge, Ontario

N1S 2H4