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SUMMARY:Design x Technology Lecture: Evelyn Lee
DESCRIPTION:Join the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Tech University for our first lecture of the Spring 2025 semester.\n\n\nThis lecture can be watched on campus or online. Room A210. \nJoin Lawrence Technological University College of Architecture and Design for our first Design x Technology lecture of the Spring semester on Thursday\, February 6th featuring an architect now immersed in the tech industry\, founding advisor for Women Defining AI\, and Global Head of Workspace Strategy and Innovation at Slack in San Francisco\, Evelyn Lee. \n \nTitle: Designing Careers\, Shaping Futures: Lessons from an Evolving Architectural Journey\nArchitecture is evolving\, and so are the career paths within it. This session is not just a lecture—it’s a conversation about redefining what it means to be an architect. We’ll explore how architects can leverage new opportunities\, embrace entrepreneurial thinking\, and shape their own futures. \nTopics of Discussion: \nExpanding the Role of Architects – Architects are stepping beyond traditional design to influence technology\, policy\, and business strategy. \nEntrepreneurial Thinking – Understanding how architects can build businesses\, create startups\, and rethink firm structures. \nNavigating Alternative Career Paths – Exploring ways to transition into leadership roles beyond traditional practice. \nThe Business of Architecture – Why understanding firm strategy\, finance\, and operations is crucial for future success. \nTechnology & AI – How architects can integrate and shape emerging technologies rather than be displaced by them. \nMentorship & Equity – Building a more inclusive profession through mentorship\, advocacy\, and flexible career models. \nThis discussion will provide practical insights\, lessons from real experiences\, and a roadmap for designing your own career path in architecture. Join the conversation and start shaping your future today. \n\n\nHow will the participants benefit from your presentation?Participants will gain practical insights into how the architectural profession is evolving and how they can navigate nontraditional career paths. They will leave with actionable strategies for leveraging their architectural skills in new ways\, whether through entrepreneurship\, leadership roles\, or technological innovation. Additionally\, the session fosters a supportive network of professionals looking to redefine their career trajectories. \nHow will their job become easier?By learning how to integrate business acumen\, technology\, and strategic thinking into their work\, architects can operate more efficiently\, make informed career decisions\, and position themselves for long-term success. Understanding these key areas will help them avoid common pitfalls\, reduce uncertainty\, and work smarter rather than harder. \nWill they save time learning this skill?Yes. Instead of spending years figuring out career pivots or business strategies through trial and error\, participants will receive condensed\, experience-backed knowledge. This lecture provides a shortcut to understanding essential trends\, career-building techniques\, and business models that can fast-track professional growth. \nWhat current challenges will it alleviate?Lack of clarity on alternative career paths in architectureStruggles with firm leadership\, financial sustainability\, and business operationsThe impact of emerging technologies and how to stay relevantNavigating workplace equity\, mentorship\, and professional growthOvercoming the pressure to follow a rigid\, traditional career pathHow does your lecture help eliminate risks and/or remove barriers?By providing knowledge about industry shifts\, emerging opportunities\, and practical career strategies\, this session reduces the risk of career stagnation and missed opportunities. Attendees will gain confidence in making informed career moves\, understand how to position themselves in the evolving market\, and learn how to leverage their skills to eliminate financial and professional uncertainties. \n\n\nABOUT: Evelyn M. Lee\, FAIA\, is a multi-faceted professional who uniquely blends her architectural background with a tech-driven focus. As an architect now immersed in the tech industry\, she serves as an angel investor\, startup advisor\, and fractional COO for small and medium-sized Architecture firms. She is an outside board director for Shepley Bulfinch and Luckett & Farley. \nA sought-after speaker\, Evelyn regularly shares her insights on the evolution of architecture practice\, leadership and team development\, the integration of technology in practice operations\, and the exploration of alternative careers. Outside of her architectural pursuits\, she is a founding advisor for Women Defining AI\, championing a more inclusive and diverse landscape in artificial intelligence. Evelyn Lee’s leadership and forward-thinking approach are not just about innovation and progress\, they’re about guiding the architectural profession towards new\, uncharted directions.
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SUMMARY:Design x Technology Lecture: Alejandra Castelao
DESCRIPTION:Our next Spring 2025 lecture is a talk titled\, From Craft to Strategy: Lessons from a Multidisciplinary Design Career\n\n\nWatch this lecture on campus or online. Alejandra will speak in the LEAR Auditorium. \n \nFrom Craft to Strategy: Lessons from a Multidisciplinary Design Career\n \nIn today’s interconnected world\, design is more than just creating beautiful objects or interfaces—it’s about crafting experiences that seamlessly blend the physical\, digital\, and immersive. Over the past 15 years\, my career has evolved from tactical\, hands-on design in furniture and interiors in Mexico City to leading multidisciplinary teams in creating consumer electronics\, healthcare experiences\, and spatial design in San Francisco. \nIn this lecture\, we’ll dive into the lessons I’ve learned along the way—how an iterative and flexible design process can unlock new opportunities\, how to bridge the gap between strategy and execution\, and how collaboration across disciplines drives innovation. Whether your passion lies in crafting tangible objects or shaping new user experiences\, this session will inspire you to thrive in an ever-changing design and tech landscape. \nThis lecture will provide practical takeaways to help students tackle real-world challenges in design and tech. I will focus some of the topics on how to save time by applying iterative design processes that bring teams together and shorten timelines\, finding ways to collaborate effectively across disciplines to break silos and unlock innovation\, navigating uncertainty and ambiguity by learning to bridge the gap between strategy and tactical execution and finally how to position yourself for success in a multidisciplinary career by mastering skills that align with emerging industry trends in an ever-changing environment. \n \n\n\n\nAs part of CoAD’s Design x Technology Lecture Series\, this lecture is free and open to the public. Guests may watch online or on campus. Register for the location/viewing details. Your on-campus registration includes a pizza lunch. \n\n\n\nAbout Alejandra: \nAlejandra is a Senior Experience Design Lead at Dolby Laboratories with over 15 years of experience in design\, technology\, and innovation. Specializing in Industrial and Interdisciplinary Design\, she creates transformative experiences that blend physical\, digital\, and immersive realms. \nStarting her career in Mexico City designing boutique hotels and restaurant interiors\, Alejandra later transitioned to San Francisco\, focusing on consumer electronics and emerging technologies like AR/VR. At Dolby\, she leads multidisciplinary teams in delivering user-centered experiences\, from creative direction and workshop facilitation to immersive spatial audio experience design. \nAlejandra’s expertise spans healthcare UX\, consumer hardware\, spatial design\, wearable products\, and immersive experiences. Her design process is adaptable\, emphasizing collaboration and leveraging emerging technologies to connect the dots between strategic thinking and tactical execution. \nOutside of her professional work\, Alejandra is passionate about mentorship\, particularly for women in the design and tech industries. As the former Chair of the Women in Design IDSA SF Chapter\, she has advocated for more opportunities for women to excel in these fields. \nWhen not designing\, she enjoys painting\, whittling wood carvings\, playing with the latest tech toys\, and outdoor activities like fishing\, crabbing and mussel harvesting.
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SUMMARY:Design x Technology Lecture: Ajla Akšamija
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will talk about innovations in architectural design\, how to integrate research with the design process and advanced technology\n\n\nThis lecture can be viewed on campus or online. \n \nINNOVATIONS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: Research and Advanced Technologies\n \nArchitectural designers are currently faced with many challenges—technological changes\, environmental and economic impacts\, necessity to innovate and raise the bar in building performance\, and the paradigm shift in architecture with the wider adoption of advanced computational design and digital fabrication techniques. There are a number or reasons why progressive practices must continuously invest in research and implementation of advanced technologies\, but the need to improve design processes and services is typically the overarching drive. Thus\, research is becoming an essential component of contemporary practice and will be redefining the future of architectural profession. \nThis lecture focuses on innovations in architecture\, relationships between scientific research and design\, and the role of building performance research. It will discuss why is it necessary to embrace technological changes to improve design processes\, products and services\, as well as the recent developments in building technologies\, materials\, computational design and integration of scientific research with innovative design. \nParticipants of this lecture will learn about innovations in architectural design\, how to integrate research with the design process\, and they will learn about advanced building technologies. \nLearning objectives:• Understand innovations in architecture and how they impact design practices and services• Evaluate specific design methods and technologies\, and how to stimulate innovation in design practice• Understand relationships between research and design process\, as well as implementation of advanced building technologies• Compare innovative design practices and approaches through case studies. \n\n\n\nCEU: This lecture equals 1 professional architecture credit towards licensure requirements.  \nAs part of CoAD’s Design x Technology Lecture Series\, this lecture is free and open to the public. Guests may watch online or on campus. Register for the location/viewing details. \n \n\n\n\nAbout Ajla: \nAjla Akšamija\, PhD\, LEED AP BD+C\, CDT\, FTI Fellow is a Professor and Distinguished Chair for Resilient Places at the School of Architecture\, University of Utah. She directs the Transforming Places\, Practices\, and Pedagogies Collaborative (TP3C)\, a research unit within the School of Architecture. Her research expertise includes building science and sustainability\, emerging technologies\, digital design and representations\, and innovations in architecture. Dr. Aksamija also served as the Chair of the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. Prior to joining University of Utah\, she was a Professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She also directed Perkins&Will Building Technology Laboratory (“Tech Lab”)\, one of the first practice-driven research laboratories focusing on advanced building technologies\, high-performance buildings\, computational design\, and building facades. She has taught architectural design studios\, advanced environmental building design\, comprehensive studios and seminars. She has worked on developing building analysis and modeling applications\, implementation of novel materials in architectural design\, development of computational models\, and has collaborated with researchers from material science\, civil and environmental engineering and computational design. \nHer recent book\, “Research Methods for the Architectural Profession”\, was published by Routledge in 2021. She has authored two previously published books\, “Integrating Innovation in Architecture\, Design\, Methods and Technology for Progressive Practice and Research” (John Wiley & Sons\, 2016) and “Sustainable Facades: Design Methods for High-Performance Building Envelopes” (John Wiley & Sons\, 2013). Dr. Aksamija has contributed to several other books\, and has published over ninety research articles and invited papers. She has presented at various national and international conferences\, and is a frequent speaker at industry-based\, scientific and academic conferences. She is the founder of the Perkins and Will Research Journal\, and served as editor of this first peer-reviewed research journal from architectural practice for fourteen years. She served as the President of the Facade Tectonics Institute.
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SUMMARY:Design x Technology Lecture: Sung Ho Kim & Heather Woofter
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another innovative Design x Technology lecture during our Spring 2025 semester!\n\n\nThis lecture can be watched on campus or online. Sung Ho and Heather will speak in the LEAR Auditorium. \nJoin Lawrence Technological University College of Architecture and Design for another important Design x Technology lecture featuring Sung Ho Kim Architecture Program Director at Kent State University and Heather Woofter Dean of the School of Architecture the University of Texas at Austin. \n \nINVISIBLE PRACTICE\n \n“Invisible Practice” introduces the works of Axi:Ome—a design practice led by Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim formerly in St. Louis and now in Cleveland and Austin. Presentation maps the trajectory of an architectural investigation into the processes explored through blending academic research with practice\, challenging the boundaries of conventional architectural practice. From built constructs to conceptual investigations\, which is the intricate dance between ideas and reality that uncovers the complexities that shape the contemporary environment by cartographing the legitimization of architectural practice that engages the pedagogical visions of the profession and the education. \nAxi:Ome was formed in 2003 primarily as an architectural research practice of Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim. Currently\, Heather Woofter is the dean at University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and Sung Ho is the director of Architecture and Urban Design at Kent State University. Together they have balanced teaching with design practice\, focusing on the concept that a building’s spatial form and innovation are inextricably woven to one another and that architecture’s progressive future lies in speculation\, imagination\, research and resolution of the intellectual development of design process. \nThis lecture will offer a sample of different types of practice for students and young architects into developing a body of work that defines one’s agenda in the world and describe how a regional practice can gain global perspectives by developing projects with research-based explorations about culture\, environment\, economics and history. \n\n\nCEU: This lecture equals 1 professional architecture credit towards licensure requirements. \nAs part of CoAD’s Design x Technology Lecture Series\, this lecture is free and open to the public. Guests may watch online or on campus. Register for the location/viewing details. Your on-campus registration includes a pizza lunch. \n \n\n\n\nAbout Sung Ho and Heather: \nHeather Woofter studied biochemistry as a teenager at the University of Maryland and chemical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She was a project architect and manager for Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Wilkes-Barre\, Pennsylvania\, Marks Barfield in London\, UK and Robert Luchetti Associates in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. She is a registered architect in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Missouri and has a Royal Institute of British Architects Parts I and II. Heather taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Career Discovery Program\, Boston Architectural College and Roger Williams University. She was an Assistant Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute\, Visiting Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and Konkuk University in Seoul\, Korea. She was an endowed Sam and Marilyn Fox Professor and Director of College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently\, she is the Dean at School of Architecture at University of Texas in Austin. Heather is a founding Co-Director and Owner of Axi:Ome llc with Sung Ho Kim since 2003. \nSung Ho Kim studied drawing and sculpture as a teenager at the Art Students League of New York and Harvard Graduate School of Design Career Discovery Program. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design and an AA Diploma from Architectural Association of London\, UK with Royal Institute of British Architects Part I and II. He also received his Master of Science in Architecture Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a project designer for Nasrine Seraji in Paris\, France and Wellington Reiter in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. He served as a principal researcher for the Interrogative Design Group at Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Sung Ho taught at Rhode Island School of Design and was an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. He was a Visiting Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and Konkuk University in Seoul\, Korea. He was an endowed Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture and engaged in research with Biology and Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently\, he is the Director of Architecture Program at Kent State University. Sung Ho is a founding Co-Director of Axi:Ome llc with Heather Woofter since 2003.
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