Past Events

Past Lectures & Events

Monday, September 16
Histories of Ecological Design; Co-habiting the Planet
Lydia Kallipoliti
Director, MS Advanced Architectural DesignColumbia University GSAPP
ANAcycle Research Think Tank
Event Recording

Monday, September 23
Intervening informal settlements in Latin America: 
Architecture as an agent of social change

Pablo Meninato
Associate Professor, Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Event Recording

October 1st to October 13th
SustainabITALY Exhibition 
Rome Center, University of Arkansas, UArk Rome
Location: Cherry Street Pier

Thursday, October 10
4pm to 7pm
Smart and Healthy Cities Symposium
233 S. 10th St, 101 Bluemle Life Sciences Building, Jefferson Center City Campus
Email charles.mathews@jefferson.edu to register for the free bus to this event from the East Falls Campus

Monday, October 21
What Else Could It Mean?
James Wines and Suzan Wines
SITE, architecture and environmental design studio
MillerKnoll Lecture 
Event Recording

Monday, October 28
1pm to 2pm
Immersive Virtual Architecture & Design
Zoom lecture
Georges Kachaamy
Director, Center for Research, Innovation, and Design (CRID)
School of Architecture, Art, and Design, American University in Dubai
Event Recording

Monday, November 4
Future Cities Forum
Workshop, SEED Center, 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Lecture, 5:30pm to 7pm
Innovations in Urban Design Education and Practice
Keynote Speaker, Jeremy Alain Siegel
Associate, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Event Recording

Monday, November 18
119th John Stewardson Memorial Fellow - Exploring Japan
Hutten R. Moyer
Virtual Lecture, 5:30pm

January 27th
Distributed Monuments
Jorge Otero Pailos Columbia University
Lecture Recording

February 3rd
Cancel the corridor and other considerations
Florian Idenburg, SO-IL
EwingCole Lecture
Lecture Recording

February 10th
CABE Interior Design Alumni Panel
Jennifer Hemphill, IA Interior Architects · A Global Studio, Forty Forward
Louis Iannone, Eimer Design
Shamus McVicar, HDR 
Julianne J. Peters, Stantec, Design Success Network
Lecture Recording

March 3rd
Pathways to a Career in Affordable Housing
Sponsored by the Women’s Affordable Housing Network of Pennsylvania
(PA WAHN)
moderated by Tya Winn, adjunct faculty, CABE, TJU
Lecture Recording

March 17th 
Architecture and ‘the Crisis of Man’
Lecture Recording

March 27th (opening reception @ The Landing) & March 28th (symposium)
⁠5th International Neurodiversity & the Built Environment Symposium: Interdependence in Action
Presented by the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab, College of Architecture and the Built Environment, and the Jefferson Health Center for Autism and Neurodiversity and sponsored by Shrub Oak International School.

Free with registration.
More information at Jefferson.edu/NeurodiversitySymposium

April 7th
In the “Wooder”: Recent Work in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Noah Yaffe, Steven Holl Architects
Lecture Recording

April. 14th
Where this flower blooms
Germane Barnes
NOMAS lecture

Monday, September 11
Vanessa Keith
StudioTEKA

Monday, September 25
Kesha Franklin
Halden Interiors

Monday, October 9
The Fabric of Life: Textiles Across the Arts, Science, & Technology
Luca Cottini, Lucia Della Putta, Meriel Tulante, Kihong Ku, Marcia Weiss
Hybrid Event: Zoom Registration Available

Wednesday, October 11
Blurring Boundaries: Multidisciplinary Design for Food & Culture Experiences, Talk & Panel Discussion
In-Person at Think Company's Philadelphia Studio, 1315 Walnut St., 2nd Floor
2x4 Global Design Consultancy
LAB at Rockwell Group

Thursday, October 12
12 Noon, Virtual Lunchtime Lecture
Jefferson Institute of Smart and Healthy Cities Forum

Friday, October 13
12 Noon, Virtual Lunchtime Lecture
Jefferson Institute of Smart and Healthy Cities Forum

Monday, November 6
Future Cities Forum: AI in Urban Analytics and Design
Violet Whitney and Xiaojiang Li

Monday, November 13
Chinatown’s Community Activism: Past, Present, Future, Presentations & Panel Discussion
Andy Toy, PACDC and Mary Yee, Activist

Monday, February 5
Pedagogy for a Beloved Commons: Pursuing the Promise of Architecture
Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA
Distinguished Professor of Architecture
Parsons School of Design

Monday, February 12
The Landscape of Future History
David Rubin
Principal, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective

Monday, February 19
NOMAS Lecture
Cruz Garcia
Associate Professor
Iowa State University

Monday, February 26
Greening High-Density Cities
Jarron Lubin and Moshe Safdie
Safdie Architects

Monday, April 8
Urban History in Earth Time: Cities and the Anthropocene
Carl Nightingale
SUNY Buffalo

Thursday, April 18/19
4th International Neurodiversity & the Built Environment Symposium
Intentional Connections

Wednesday, April 24
Jefferson Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities
Low-Tech, High Performance Building Envelopes - Hot Climate
Virtual Panel Discussion

Charles L. DavisFall Lecture Series: Marion Weiss & Michael ManfrediFall Lecture Series: Antony WoodFall Lecture Series: Susannah DrakeGardens in the City: Round TableValerio Morabito's Exhibit Opening3rd International Neurodiversity & the Built Environment Symposium: PlaceMaking The event is co-organized by the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab, College of Architecture and the Built Environment at Thomas Jefferson University and the Center for Autism and Neurodiversity, Jefferson Health in Pennsylvania, as well as the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland at UCD in partnership with SMARTlab teams in Dublin, Skelligs (West of Ireland) and Niagara (Eastern Canada).Suzanne Singletary & Suzanne Barucco4th International Smart and Healthy Cities Forum (Day 1)4th International Smart and Healthy Cities Forum (Day 2)Fall Lecture Series: Valerio MorabitoFall Lecture Series: Kathryn Ott Lovell

  • 2020 Jefferson Smart & Healthy Cities Forum Panel 1: Policy + Housing. Panel 2: How to Evolve Cities as Smart and Healthy Cities?
  • Alexander Eisenschmidt Alexander Eisenschmidt will introduce the topic of his recent book, The Good Metropolis, focusing on the productive tension between the city and architectural form.
  • Hansel Bauman / Sept. 12, 2020 / 4-Day Neurodiversity: Building Community and Rethinking the Built Environment Symposium
  • Brian Sims / Oct. 12, 2020 / Brian Sims; Principal at Houseal-Levigne / GeoDesign Forum
  • Sara Jensen Carr / Oct. 19, 2020 / Sara Jensen Carr; Assistant Professor Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape and Program Director, Master of Design in Sustainable Urban Environments in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University / “Embodied Environments”
  • Jessica Henson / Nov. 2, 2020 / Jessica Henson; OLIN
  • Transient Spaces Panel Discussion / Nov. 9, 2020 / Loukia Tsafoulia, Thomas Jefferson University; Sean Anderson, Museum of Modern Art; Suzan Wines, I-Beam Architecture and Design; Deen Sharp

  • Dr. Anat Geva Anat Geva, PhD, a registered architect in Israel and Associate Member of the AIA is a Professor of Architecture in Texas A&M University and a Fellow of the Center for Heritage Conservation.
  • Thorsten Helbig Thorsten Helbig is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering with more than 25 years of working experience
  • Transient Spaces Panel Discussion Mass migration is one of the most urgent issues confronting cities today.
  • Trevor Horst '08 Kieran Timberlake & Osborne Construction Philadelphia, PA