Today: Friday March 31/ 147 Diefendorf Hall on the Main Street Campus @ 5:30 pm. Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe are partners and collaborators who have created a life around their shared passion for architecture, landscape, design, and furniture. Their interest in the construction and fabrication of buildings, sites, and their intersections has prompted them to question fundamental relationships between object, ground, building, landscape, man & nature.
Brigitte Shim was born in Jamaica and educated at the University of Waterloo where she received degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture. in addition to her work with Shim-Sutcliffe Architects http://www.shim-sutcliffe.com/ she is a tenured professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. In 2002 she was a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique FEdErale de Lausanne, has also taught at Harvard Universityis Graduate School of Design and was the 2001 Bishop Visiting Professor and the Visiting Bicentennial Professor of Canadian Studies at Yale Universityis School of Architecture. Brigitte Shim is the 2006 Martell Distinguished Visiting Critic at UB.
Don’t miss the Integral House exhibit which accompanies this lecture. It will be in the Dyett Gallery of Hayes Hall from March 27 to April 14.
Note that this lecture is in a different place than the normal UB architecture lectures.
University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning Hayes Hall 3435 Main Street Buffalo, New York 14214