October 25 / 301 Crosby Hall UB Main Street Campus / 5:30 p.m. – William Bruder is a self-trained architect originally educated as a sculptor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He has worked in his own studio in the Arizona desert since the early seventies while also serving as lecturer and studio critic for the School of Architecture at the Tempe campus of Arizona State University. Bruder’s work has been widely publicized throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, and he has published and lectured extensively. He has received Record Home awards in 1977 and 1994, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1987. Most recently he received the DuPont Benedictus Award for his work on the stunning Phoenix Central Library.
With a philosophy that defines architecture as ,Aeufunctional fine art based on site and user needs” his use of natural materials combined with concrete block and sheet metal and careful siting of structures with relation to the sun create an exceptional and sustainable modern architecture rooted in the southwest. This lecture is another in the great fall series presented by the School of Architecture and Planning which continues to bring the best minds in architecture to Buffalo. Bruder’s work is very compelling and being that he comes from a non traditional background this event promises to be highly rewarding.
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