2009-10 LECTURE SERIES

David Brown
April 5, 2006 @ 6pm

Failure as an Option

David Brown, an associate professor of architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago is currently investigating, in design research and teaching, ways in which the concerns of existing organizations overseeing various scales of metropolitan development can provide parameters for modes of urban design and planning that can negotiate an area’s transformation in time. He is co-editor of two publications Row: Trajectories Through the Shotgun House, a forthcoming Architecture at Rice publication supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Built Surface, a workshop catalog supported by a Graham Foundation Grant that document symposiums that he co-organized while teaching at Rice University and Florida A&M University, respectively. He received his undergraduate degree in art history from Brown University and his Masters of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley.