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Sean Lally: Show Me

Society of Architectural Historians
Sean Lally, "A Change of Phase," film still, 2024. © Sean Lally.

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Sean Lally: Show Me

at Society of Architectural Historians

1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610

Lectures & Talks

Architect Sean Lally is engaged in preparing the discipline of architecture—and the communities it serves—for the futures ahead. As environments evolve due to a changing climate, and as advances in healthcare and consumer devices redefine the human bodies that occupy those environments, architecture is in a prime position to shape the discourse.

During this talk, Lally will discuss new work that plays with the quirks and unintended consequences of architecture’s design ambitions.

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Sean Lally

Lausanne, Switzerland

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Sean Lally is an architect and writer whose work investigates how architecture can adapt to a changing climate, evolving technologies, and transformations of the human body. He is the author of The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come (Lars Müller Publishers, 2013), Energies: New Material Boundaries (Wiley, 2009), and co-editor of Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space (Routledge, 2006). His research has been recognized with the Architectural League’s Young Architects Award and the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture. Lally’s work has been exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Istanbul Design Biennale, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He has taught at Rice University, Pratt Institute, and the University of Virginia, and is currently clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. His practice explores speculative and critical futures through architecture.

Chicago Architecture Biennial