Unknown Studio Kicks off 2020 AIA Baltimore and BAF Spring Lecture Series

Join Unknown Studio’s Claire Agre and James Corner Field Operations’ Sarah Weidner Astheimer for the inaugural talk of the 2020 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series. Claire and Sarah will present “Unbuilt Futures,” a dialogue focusing on landscape architects’ leading role in a process of unbuilding. Whether deconstructing hard shorelines into soft, resilient and ecological edges; establishing strategies for managed retreat; or reconceptualizing rural open spaces as sophisticated, regenerative landscapes; the discipline of landscape architecture is heavily engaged in finding solutions for the intricate and complex questions facing our common future.

The 2020 AIA Baltimore & BAF Spring Lecture Series will explore unbuilt architecture and design work. Speakers will showcase and discuss their unbuilt, speculative, and/or dismantled work, including competitions, explorations, and research. The series will explore why projects go unrealized and create a dialogue about what could have been, what is, and what can be.

Continuing Education Credits are available: 1.5 AIA/CES LUs available/1.5 PDH available (LA CES provided by Maryland ASLA) for each lecture.

Admission to all lectures is free and begin at 6:00 pm at MICA Falvey Hall of the Brown Center at 1301 West Mount Royal Ave. Continue the conversation after the lecture at the Brass Tap, located around the corner at 1205 W. Mt. Royal Ave. at the Fitzgerald. Drinks available for purchase. Light appetizers provided by AIA Baltimore.

You can watch Sarah and Claire’s entire lecture in addition to the Q&A here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfp4s51qCg0