Tag Archives : Lectures


Architecture of Life Lectures | Stillness and Movement: Bruce Beasley and Lisa Wymore on Dancing the Rondo series, in dialogue with Shannon Jackson

 Bruce Beasley attended Dartmouth College from 1957–59, and the University of California, Berkeley from 1959-62 where he earned his BA. Beasley ranks among the most productive sculptors of the post- Henry Moore/David Smith generation of abstract sculptors. His work can be found in the permanent collection of 30 art museums around the world, including: Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Guggenheim Museum, […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Animate Objects: Mel Chen and Julia Bryan-Wilson on Science, Art, and Language in the Architecture of Life

Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at U.C. Berkeley and an affiliate of the Center for Race and Gender, the Science and Technology Studies Center, and the Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences.Mel’s research and teaching interests include queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory and Asian American […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Lively Sciences: Adam Nilsen on objects and narratives from the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Adam Nilsen is the Head of Education and Interpretation at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education in 2015 in Learning Sciences and Technology Design. He holds a B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from New York University in Anthropology. His professional background is in museum education. […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Lucia Jacobs on the Nature of Place in dialogue with Nicholas de Monchaux

Lucia Jacobs received her B.S. in Biology (Neurobiology & Behavior) from Cornell University. She completed her Ph.D in 1987 in the Department of Biology (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) at Princeton University. She then moved to the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, as a NATO Fellow and later as NIH NRSA fellow, and continued her […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Life and Dance: Trajal Harrell on The Ghosts of Montpellier at Cal Performances in dialogue with Kate Mattingly and Megan Hoetger

Trajal Harrell’s work has been presented at many venues including The Kitchen, Danspace Project, The New Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Boston, The Margulies Art Warehouse (Miami), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Art Basel Miami Beach, Dance Mission (San Francisco, CA), Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Place, Politics and Performance: Sean San Jose on Chavez Ravine at Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, in dialogue with Shannon Jackson and Nicholas de Monchaux

Sean San José is co-founder of Campo Santo, the award-winning resident theater company of San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts. Program Director of Theatre for Intersection for the Arts, San José has helped create and curate a new program called the Hybrid Project, formed to bring together artists of all genres, merging differing and emerging styles […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Action and Performance: The Yes Men on the Activism of Life

The Yes Men use any means necessary to agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, and then smuggle out the stories of their undercover escapades to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of big business. The Yes Men have impersonated the World Trade Organization, Dow Chemical Corporation, and Bush administration spokesmen […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Sou Fujimoto: “Architecture and the Future,” in dialogue with Nicholas de Monchaux

Sou Fujimoto is a Japanese architect. Born in Hokkaido in 1971, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1994, and established his own office, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in 2000. Noted for delicate light structures and permeable enclosures, Fujimoto designed several houses, and in 2013, was selected to design the temporary Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London. […]


Architecture of Life Lectures | Containers: Charles Renfro on the new BAMPFA building

After attending Rice University and Columbia, Charles Renfro joined the interdisciplinary architecture studio of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio in 1997. He became a partner in 2004. The architecture studio, now called Diller Scofidio + Renfro, has presided over numerous influential projects, including the design of the High Line park and the redevelopment of Lincoln […]