Archive for May 14th, 2010

HAA ANNOUNCES LECTURESHAA – EVENT 07

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Volunteerism in Detroit Lecture Announcement

Volunteerism in Detroit Details

lecturesHAA is dedicated to creating a broader creative discourse through open and collaborative dialogue. The program includes lectures and discussions throughout the year that will consider important contemporary design issues associated with the urban environment.

The 2010 program for is titled, “Challenging Detroit: (Re)generating Urbanism.” This program provides an important platform for consideration of innovative, multidisciplinary strategies designed to help the city not only create reinvestment and redevelopment, but also begin to regenerate the social, economic and environmental attributes that define it. Now, more than ever, we need to come together to understand how we can effectively participate in the thoughtful, creative regeneration of Detroit. (more…)

Christian Unverzagt Lecture Discussion

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Christian-Unverzagt_Detroit: The Grotesque from HAA on Vimeo.

Detroit: The Grotesque (and other projects).

On April 13th, local designer and University of Michigan professor, Christian Unverzagt, gave a compelling lecture summarizing his Detroit design work.  Divided directly down the middle, Christian inadvertently described his work using a split personality analogy, first illustrating his architectural pedagogy through multiple student projects and then following with his professional work through M1/dtw. (more…)