Architectural, experiential design leaders to speak at Spring 2025 University of Kansas Architecture Lecture Series


LAWRENCE — The School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas has announced programming for the Spring 2025 Architecture Lecture Series.   

The KU Architecture Lecture Series welcomes architectural and experiential design leaders from across the country to the University of Kansas to illuminate new ideas and inspire purpose-driven design practice. Lecturers bring a wide range of expertise in areas such as sustainable building, digital environments, public interest design, historic preservation, health and wellness design, and more.

Spring 2025 Schedule

Feb. 7 | Nader Tehrani

4:30 p.m, Marvin Forum 

Nader Tehrani is founding principal of NADAAA, an interdisciplinary practice with a body of work in infrastructure, urbanism, architecture and installations. His work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ honored Tehrani with the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States, for contributions to architecture as an art. He has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the National Academy of Design.

Feb. 24 | Tye Farrow

4:30 p.m, Jayhawk Welcome Center

Tye Farrow is senior partner at Toronto-based Farrow Partners, a firm that is recognized for designing some of the most technically advanced facilities in the world. Working at the intersection of architecture and neuroscience and architecture, Farrow is a pioneer of salutogenic design – design that actively enhances people’s capacity to thrive culturally, economically, mentally and physically. He has initiated a global “Cause Health” movement aimed at extending beyond environmental sustainability and physical health to encompass psychological and emotional health. Farrow’s portfolio includes projects ranging from residential to urban planning in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America.

March 7 | Anne Patterson

4:30 p.m., Marvin Forum 

Anne Patterson teaches architectural foundations and leads first-year student experience in the Department of Architecture at KU. Patterson’s focus is building a foundation for academic success through a shared first-year educational experience that welcomes students into the KU architecture learning community and unlocks their creative potential. Beyond teaching, Patterson is a multidisciplinary artist whose portfolio includes architectural drawings, mixed media, sculpture and theater design.

April 4 | Kathy Velikov

4:30 p.m., Marvin Forum 

Kathy Velikov is a leading practice-based design researcher and educator who works to advance environmentally responsive, technologically enabled and climate-positive built environments through speculation, prototyping and visualization. She is founding partner of the research-based practice RVTR, an experimental platform for architecture and urban design research currently embedded within Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Velikov has exhibited projects internationally and is the author of two books — “Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural” (Actar, 2022) and “Infra Eco Logi Urbanism” (Park Books, 2015).

Mon, 02/03/2025

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