Architect D. Grahame Shane to Give Public Lecture

February 14, 2008

— Architect David Grahame Shane will give a free public lecture, " Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design, and City Theory,” at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 21, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Shane, who is the author of a book by the same title as his lecture, will discuss the origins of urban design in North America and Europe and the main approaches that have evolved to deal with the fragmented contemporary city. Shane’s lecture is part of a joint lecture series for the Department of Architecture and the Bracken Landscape Architecture Lecture series.

D. Grahame Shane trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in the 1960s during the Archigram years. He completed an M.Arch in Urban Design and a Ph.D in Architectural and Urban History at Cornell University with Colin Rowe. He taught at the A.A. School under Alvin Boyarsky, before joining Columbia University in 1985 (and the urban Design Program in 1991). Shane now also lectures at Cooper Union and City College in New York. Over the last 20 years, he has taught urban-design master classes and lectured internationally, as well as being published widely.

Contact: Lisa Iulo, ldi1@psu.edu