EMBASSY LECTURES on ARCHITECTURE and CULTURE / The Catholic University

INDIA LECTURE SERIES, “Crossing Boundaries: Modernism and Indian Cultural Tradition”

. 1 Feb. - Dhiru Thadani: Bombay* - Past Present Future *(Mumbai)


. 22 Feb. - James Wescoat: From Gaze to Gaz: A New Interpretation of Humayun’s Tomb-Garden And the Nizamuddin area of Delhi

. 31 Mar. - Brinda Somaya: India’s Changing Landscape: Buildings and Beyond *

. 6 Apr. - Nimish Patel: Relevance of Traditional Materials, Technology & Craftsmanship in Contemporary Architecture & Interior Design **

.12 Apr. - Rahul Mehrotra ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Conservation and Contemporary Projects

Lectures at Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and Planning, Koubek Auditorium: Mondays, 5:30 PM

The School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America is pleased to co-sponsor this year’s EMBASSY LECTURES on ARCHITECTURE and CULTURE with the Embassy of India and Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), in the spring 2010.

Mr. Thadani (Architect/Urbanist, Washington, DC) works internationally and lives in Washington, DC. Both Ms. Somaya (Architect/Urban Conservationist, Somaya & Kalappa Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai) and Mr. Patel (Architect/Planner/Conservationist, Abhikram and Panika Crafts & Technologies, Ahmedabad) will be coming from India. Both Dr. Wescoat (Landscape Architect/Geographer/Historian, Aga Kahn Professor for Islamic Art, MIT, Cambridge, MA) and Mr. Mehrotra (Architect, RMA Architects, Mumbai) are professors at MIT and will be coming from Boston.

The Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Ave NE
Washington, DC 20064

THE ARCHITECTURAL TUNING OF SETTLMENTS

Architect and Urban Planner Léon Krier will be lecturing on "THE ARCHITECTURAL TUNING OF SETTLMENTS" at the Catholic University of America, School of Architecture on
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM

&

the University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 6:00 PM

Léon Krier is recognized today as one of the world's outstanding architects and urbanists. He received the inaugural Richard Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture in 2003.

Lectures are free and open to the public

Congress for the New Urbanism DC Chapter
http://www.cnudc.org

Lisa Blas / Regarding Territories and Bodies

through March 6, 2009

OPENING: THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009, 6-8 pm
Catholic University of America, Salve Regina Art Gallery


Lisa Blas
www.lisablas.com
Catholic University presents the opening of “Regarding Territories and Bodies,” an exhibition of landscape and figurative paintings by Lisa Blas that recreates iconic Civil War sites, such as Gettysburg and Richmond, and historic figures John Wilkes Booth and Pauline Cushman, among others.

Blas is a visual artist born and educated in Los Angeles, currently based in Washington, D.C. She has been a visiting artist at American University and Joppa Masonic Lodge in D.C. She is presently a member of both the senior core faculty at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and the drawing and painting faculty at George Washington University. Blas has participated in solo and group exhibitions in D.C., Berlin, Mexico City, Los Angeles and Barcelona, Spain.

The Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Ave., N.E.
Washington, DC 20064
For more information, contact the Department of Art at 202-319-5282