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Guest Lecture: Eric Meyer of Morphosis

Join us for a guest lecture by Eric Meyer, AIA, founding partner of X Tech Construction and director of design fabrication at Morphosis Architects.

UK College of Design hosts Fall 2024 Lecture Series

The University of Kentucky College of Design’s Fall 2024 Lecture Series offered a dynamic lineup of talks, exhibitions and workshops that explored the intersection of design, architecture and innovation. This semester’s events included insights from renowned professionals, interactive workshops and exhibitions that highlighted both emerging and established voices in the design world. Find a full list of the featured events below:

Fabric-formed Casting Concrete Workshop

This workshop, led by Pooya Mohaghegh, will focus on fabric-formed concrete casting, providing students with hands-on experience in both digital design and physical fabrication.  Register Now

College of Design Fabricating Play - Spring 2025 Elective

Fabricating Play is a design build course focused on the design, development, fabrication, and assembly of an architectural installation. The course begins with individual investigations of material and form and then moves forward as a team to select the elements, aesthetics, forms, and methods to fabricate the final construction(s). 

Critical Software Lab Lecture Series Catty Dan Zhang UT Knoxville

Catty Dan Zhang is an associate professor of architecture at University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is also the founder of Temporary Office, a practice that explores architecture and digital technology through the production of exhibitions, objects, drawings, animations, installations and writings. 

School of Architecture Marlon Blackwell at the Speed Art Museum

In collaboration with the AIA CKC the School of Architecture is hosting AIA Gold Medal winner Marlon Blackwell for a lecture on Monday, Nov 4 at 6:30pm at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville. There will be a meet-and-greet beginning at 5:30pm.  

Book Launch: Homing the Machine in Architecture

The Critical Software Lab is excited to celebrate the publication of a new book called “Homing the Machine in Architecture.” This edited collection is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication. The lecture will feature a brief overview of the book and a discussion with editors Zach Cohen and Galo Canizares.

School of Architecture Lecture Series Benjamin Ball: Feathered Edge

Join us for Feathered Edge, a lecture featuring Benjamin Ball of Benjamin Ball Studio. The event will take place on Monday, October 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Forum (111 Gray Design Building).

Critical Software Lab Lecture Series girlcomputer

The College of Design invites you to the first Critical Software Lab lecture of the semester on Friday, October 4 at 4pm in GDB 209. Samiha Meem will be giving a presentation called "girlcomputer" on her work. Meem's research explores how image, media infrastructures, and popular culture interfere with the representation, consumption, and production of architecture. She is currently the 2023-25 LeFevre Fellow at The Ohio State University.

MuFu: Museum of the Future

Join us for the Museum of the Future exhibition opening at 21c Museum Hotel Louisville, with a panel discussion featuring Jeffrey Johnson (UK SoA), Darin Johnstone (Sci_Arc), SO-IL, Alice Stites (21c), Christopher Reitz (UofL), Stephen Reily (Crystal Bridges Museum & Re-Museum), and Julien Robson (Great Meadows Foundation).