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 initial program for 2010 will be “Challenging Detroit: (Re)generating Urbanism.” This program will provide 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.

The public is encouraged to attend these free events. Please return to rogueHAA for future dates and topics.

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lecturesHAA: Dancing About Architecture-Craig Wilkins from HAA on Vimeo.

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.”
-Elvis Costello

lecturesHAA : Event 4. With the tempo of a beatnik and a black turtleneck sweater to match, Craig Wilkins free-formed one December evening before an intimate crowd at the Johanson Charles Gallery.   Neither traditional presentation nor musical jam session, his lecture entitled “Dancing about Architecture…Part 3”, ebbed and flowed in accordance with the accompanying music.  Miles Davis.  Nelly.  John Coltrane.  Lil’ Kim.  Brazilian Salsa.  Public Enemy.  Each musical style provided a unique lens in which to view an architect’s design process and their resulting built form.  Brazilian Salsa directly influenced Gaudi’s Parc Guelle.  Josephine Baker provided inspiration for both Adolf Loos’ Villa Baker and Le Corbusier’s City of Algiers.  James Brown infiltrated South America, thereby evolving the favelas of Brazil.  Hip Hop music prompts Rural Studio and the dramatic sampling of found materials. (more…)