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Architecture of Life Lectures | Soundscapes: Nicholas Mathew on Messiaen: Des Canyons aux Etoiles at Cal Performances, in dialogue with Shannon Jackson

Nicholas Mathew has been awarded degrees from Oxford University and Cornell University. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow in Music at Jesus College. His published work has focused on four issues: relationships between music and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the place of […]


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 […]