Named Lectures and Exhibitions

A view of the Commons full of people during the Dinkeloo Lecture featuring Bjarke Ingels.

Guido A Binda Lectures and Exhibitions

For seven decades, Guido Binda, B.Arch.’31, practiced architecture in Western Michigan, specializing in school design. Guido, with his wife Elizabeth, created this fund to provide for an exhibit program and annual lecture by visiting professionals.

Lectures

2022 – Lev Manovich
2016 – Marlene Imirzian
2015 – Toshiko Mori
2013 – Julie Snow
2012 – Brian Leary
2009 – Nikos Geogiadis
2009 – Julie Bargmann
2008 – Stephen Burks
2008 – Kadambari Baxi
2008 – Mimi Hoang
2007 – Teddy Cruz
2006 – Maryann Thompson
2006 – Mark Linder
2005 – Monica Ponce de Leon
2004 – Marianne Burkhalter
2001 – Rick Joy
2000 – Vincent James
1998 – Charles Menefee III
1997 – Peter Forbes

Exhibitions

2024 – Climate Futures Exhibition
2022 – Neural Architecture
2017 – Persistent Pasts: The Bicentennial Campus as Archive
2016 – Marlene Imirizian
2014 – In the Garden Grows a Lump: Rare Books on the Picturesque
2013 – Marble Fairbanks
2013 – The Piranesi Variations
2012 – Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
2012 – Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines
2010 – Constructing Modern: The Work of Robert C. Metcalf
2009 – Museums ot the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings
2001 – Recent Work: Rick Joy
1997 – Peter Forbes & Associates: A Work in Progress

Conferences

2024 – Climate Futures Symposium
2023 – Under the Campus, the Land
2007 – Centennial Conference: Global Place: Practice, Politics & the Polis

Charles Correa Lectures

The Charles Correa International Lecture Fund was established in 2016 in honor and memory of renowned Indian architect and activist Charles Correa (B.Arch.’53). The fund endows an annual lecture at Taubman College by an international, practicing architect to encourage the expansion of cultural understanding.

Lectures

2024 – Eyal Weizman
2022 – Christian Benimana
2021 – Xu Tiantian
2019 – Satoshi Ohashi
2019 – Sou Fujimoto
2017 – Tatiana Bilbao

The John Dinkeloo Memorial Lectures

This memorial lecture was established to recognize John Dinkeloo’s extraordinary contributions to architecture and commemorate excellence in architectural design. This lecture celebrates those designers whose work combines design excellence with structural ingenuity by inviting a practicing architect. When possible the lecture is complemented by an exhibit of the work of the firm.

Lectures

2024 – Bjarke Ingels
2023 – Philipe Block
2022 – Vishaan Chakrabarti
2021 – Christopher Leong and Dominic Leong
2017 – Kunlé Adeyemi
2016 – Elizabeth Diller
2016 – David Adjaye
2014 – Fernando Romero
2012 – Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam
2011 – Benedetta Tagliabue
2010 – Thom Mayne
2009 – Cecil Balmond
2009 – Frank Matero
2007 – Gerardo Cabellero
2006 – Francois Roche
2005 – Hitoshi Abe
2004 – Ben van Berkel
2002 – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
2001 – Francoise-Helene Jourda
1999 – Will Bruder
1998 – Studio Granda
1997 – Rafael Vinoly
1996 – Richard Horden
1995 – John Patkau
1994 – Diana Agrest
1993 – Michael McKinnell
1992 – Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
1991 – Thom Mayne
1990 – Gunnar Birkerts
1989 – Thomas H. Beeby
1988 – Richard Meier
1987 – William Pederson
1986 – Robert J. Frasca
1985 – E. Fay Jones
1984 – Kevin Roche

Charles and Ray Eames Lectures

Lectures

2016 – Linna Choi and Tarik Oualalou
2014 – Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti
2013 – David and Im Schafer
2012 – Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam
2008 – Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon
2007 – Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels
2004 – Karen Fairbanks and Scott Marble
2002 – Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
2001 – Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe
2000 – Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer
1999 – Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam
1998 – Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

Johe Architecture Program Lecture Series

Lecture Series

Winter 2025 – Tulay Atak; Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood; Christian Hart Nakarado; David Gamble; Anda & Jenny French; Pascale Sablan; Carlos Bedoya

Douglas S. Kelbaugh Lectures

The Douglas S. Kelbaugh Lecture Fund, including any additions to it, will be used to support a public lecture on the topic of urban design and will be called the Douglas S. Kelbaugh Lecture. If the Douglas S. Kelbaugh Lecture Fund cannot be used for this purpose in the future or there are surplus distributions, it may be used for the same purpose as the Kelbaugh Scholarship Fund.

Lectures

2025 – Ellen Dunham-Jones
2024 – Emmanuel Pratt
2023 – Paola Viganò
2022 – David Brown

Swanson Lectures

Lectures

2019 – Shohei Shigematsu
2018 – Gregg Pasquarelli
2012 – K. Michael Hays
2011 – Robert Somol
2010 – Jeff Kipnis

Raoul Wallenberg Lectures

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg’s. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul’s honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

Lectures

2024 – Climate Futures Symposium
2024 – Housing Works Symposium
2022 – Wallenberg Symposium: Size Up: Changing Paradigms In Social Impact Design
2022 – Wallenberg Symposium: Equity in Architectural Education Consortium
2021 – f-architecture
2020 – Michael Kimmelman
2019 – Eyal Weizman
2018 – Ann Lui and Mimi Zeiger
2017 – Michael Murphy
2016 – Rahul Mehrotra
2015 – Daniel Libeskind
2014 – Michael Graves
2013 – Ingrid Carlberg
2012 – David Adjaye
2011 – Alejandro Zaero Polo
2010 – Richard Sennett
2009 – Alejandro Aravena
2007 – Dan Solomon
2006 – Hal Foster
2005 – Donlyn Lyndon
2004 – Saskia Sassen
2001 – Rafael Moneo
2000 – Michael Benedikt
1999 – Kenneth Frampton
1998 – Richard Sennett
1997 – Michael Sorkin
1996 – Vincent Scully
1995 – Daniel Libeskind
1994 – Jorge Silvettt
1993 – James Ingo Freed
1992 – Denise Scott Brown
1991 – Joseph Esherick
1990 – Elizabeth Hollander
1989 – J. Max Bond, Jr.
1988 – Spiro Kostof
1987 – Joseph Rykwert
1985 – Grady Clay
1984 – Charles Correa
1983 – Edmund Bacon
1981 – Carl Levin
1979 – James Marston Fitch
1978 – Jacob Bakema
1976 – Rudolf Arnheim
1975 – Reyner Banham
1973 – Eric Larabee
1972 – Gunnar Birkets
1971 – Sir Nikolaus Pevsner