About the program
Architects design and build, but they also write, draw, exhibit, lecture, and teach. They design buildings but they also design cities, furniture, interiors, landscapes, and infrastructures. And today, architects, by necessity, operate in the realm of digital media.
Stan Allen presents “Buildings and Books,” a lecture surveying three decades of practice, seen through the lens of drawing, designing, building, and making books: the parallel cultures of photography, graphic design and writing.
Stan Allen’s project Building with Writing is on view at the Graham Foundation as part of the SHIFT exhibition Fragmented Manifestos. As in Allen’s Chicago Architecture Biennial project, where drawings are presented alongside writing, the lecture revisits the architect’s dual role as writer and designer, equally engaged in making books and buildings.
The lecture will be followed by a conversation with UIC Professor Bob Somol.
