Think Architecture | Think Beyond Lecture with Coleman Coker

Think Architecture | Think Beyond Lecture with Coleman Coker

5:30 pm – Reception / 6:00 pm – Lecture,

OSU-Tulsa Auditorium, 700 North Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa, OK

To register, click here or visit the AIA Eastern Oklahoma home page at www.AIAeok.org

Coleman Coker, RA is the Ruth Carter Stevenson Chair at the University of Texas, School of Architecture in Austin and Professor of Practice at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He holds a Master of Fine Arts and an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Memphis College of Art. Coker is former director of the Memphis Center of Architecture, a collaborative program of design open to advanced architecture students in the region and sponsored by the University of Tennessee and the University of Arkansas. He’s been the visiting Favrot Chair at Tulane and has held the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at the University of Arkansas.
Coker founded buildingstudio in 1999 after a 13-year partnership with Samuel Mockbee as Mockbee/Coker Architects. buildingstudio is a collaborative firm focusing on inventive and imaginative work, regularly acknowledged for its design excellence. They’ve received numerous honors including a P/A Design Award for low-cost housing “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty,” Emerging Voices from the Architectural League of New York, numerous Architectural Record, “Record House” awards and National AIA Honor awards. buildingstudio’s work has been highlighted at MoMA, SF MoMA, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Coleman Coker will present buildingstudio’s recent work with a focus on the responsibility of the architect as an integral member of their community.

His presentation will address the following topics:
* Environmental issues
* Materials and systems
* Sustainable design intent and innovation
* Collective wisdom and feedback loops

Mr. Coker’s presentation is pending approval for one (1) Learning Unit-HSW.

Register NOW for what promises to be an entertaining and educational presentation that concludes the 2009 Think ArchiTecture | Think Beyond series organized by the Chapter’s Young Architects Forum.