Fall Lectures

By Vince Burdi

Lectures are an important part of anyone's education. Discussions pertaining, but not limited to architectural related projects are a great resource for design. Any chance you get to sit in on a lecture take it. Lectures may not seem important early on in your education, but as time will pass they will seem all the more relevant to your career. By going to lectures you are broadening your horizons leading to better design proposals that consider more topics and problems. Discussion allows you to see things in a different perspective, which will ultimately affects your design like it or not.

Washington University offers an incredible public lecture series. On October 11, 2010 Tom Leader came to Wash U for a lecture and he discussed his work in landscape architecture. It was great experience I would recommend anyone interested in architectural related fields to look him up. Tom Leader discussed different forms of mapping styles that he had conducted all through the 90s. The mapping technique gave him insight on how a particular piece of land had changed over a certain time period. The landscapes Tom Leader designs are an "evolving creature" which over time change and propose new opportunities. I have taken some of the elements from Tom's lecture into consideration of my own project this fall. By developing a landscape and considering what it was I then can determine what the new landscape should become. Tom Leader has many projects listed at: http://www.tomleader.com/.

Wash U Lecture series at: http://www.samfoxschool.wustl.edu/news/4671