Airquakes: Climate Change, Ontology and Urbanization
Albert Pope
Monday, 04 Apr 2016 at 5:00 pm – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center
Albert Pope is a key voice in the world on questions of urbanization, urban form and problems of the contemporary city, tying together discussions of architecture, design, space, philosophy and politics in a way few others do. He has written and lectured extensively on the broad implications of post-war urban development and is the author of Ladders, a book-length study of the postwar American City. His current research addresses the urban implications of climate change. Pope is the Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture at Rice University and director of the school's Present/Future Program. He received his B.Arch at Southern California Institute of Architecture, and his M.Arch from Princeton University. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities Symposium "What Is the Urban?"Cosponsored By:
- Anthropology
- Architecture
- Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities
- Climate Science Program
- Community & Regional Planning
- DATUM: Student Journal of Architecture
- English
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Global Resource Systems Program
- History
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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