The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is pleased to announce its 2012-2013 evening public lecture series. This year’s program will once again showcase leaders from some of the world’s most forward-thinking design firms and research institutions.

Speakers will include Pritzker Prize-winner Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, the Tokyo-based architect behind the ambitious Teshima Art Museum and House & Garden residence, and Marion Weiss, whose firm Weiss/Manfredi designed the award-winning Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum. Nishizawa and Weiss’s lectures are two of four lectures in our bulthaup-sponsored series.

Spanish architect Antón García-Abril will present the inaugural Kohn Shnier Architects Lecture, while Rahul Mehrotra, founder of the Mumbai-based firm RMA Architects, will give this year’s George Baird Lecture. Lecturers on landscape architecture will include Martin Rein-Cano, principal at the Berlin-based firm TOPOTEK1, and the Faculty’s 2013 Michael Hough/Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Visiting Critic Alan Berger, director of P-Rex and a Professor at MIT.

The Daniels Public Lectures are part of a broader stream of talks, exhibitions, and fora that the Faculty has planned for the academic year. Our goal is to provide our students, and our broader Toronto community with the opportunity to hear from international leaders in the fields of architecture, design, and sustainable urbanization, and thereby advance both thinking and discourse on how to better design, plan and inhabit our cities, towns, and landscapes.

All of Daniels events and programs are free and open to the public. For information on the lecture series and other public programs, including detailed information on each individual event, please visit danielsdev.site.