Elastic: Between Architecture + Urbanism | U-SoA Tecnoglass Lecture by Lola Sheppard and Mason White of Lateral Office

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LATERAL OFFICE Inc. is a highly collaborative practice, embracing research-driven design processes and experimental work in a team-based setting; interested in truly unique design challenges that require new thinking and processes. Lateral Office believes strongly in the synthetic possibilities of architecture, culture, technology, and environment to convert challenges to opportunities.

Lola Sheppard, Partner // OAA
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Lola Sheppard is a Registered Architect and founding Partner at Lateral Office Inc. She received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo where she also serves as the Undergraduate Officer. She has taught at the University of Toronto, Ohio State University, and California College of the Arts. Sheppard previously worked in the offices of Jean Nouvel (Paris), Peter Rose (Cambridge), and Allies and Morrison (London) before forming Lateral Office Inc. She is committed to architecture’s new relationship to social and ecological possibilities – not just solutions. Sheppard is the recipient of the 2012 RAIC Young Architect Award and the 2003-04 Howard Lefevre Fellowship from Ohio State University.

Mason White, Partner // FRAIC
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Mason White is a founding Partner at Lateral Office Inc. He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC). He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech and his Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design at the University of Toronto. He has taught at Harvard University, Cornell University, Ohio State University, and UC Berkeley. White previously worked at Monacelli Press (New York), Machado Silvetti Associates (Boston), and Panter Hudspith (London) before forming Lateral Office Inc. He is convinced that there are new roles for architecture out there that we do not know because we are not looking, really looking. White is the recipient of the 2012-13 Howard Friedman Visiting Professorship in the Practice of Architecture at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and the 2008-09 Arthur Wheelwright Fellowship from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

1.5 Continuing education credits (CEU) offered. Sponsored by The Miami Chapter of American Institute of Architects. contact [email protected] for more info. Sponsored by Tecnoglass.

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The lecture series, Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism, posits a group of practices leveraging the potential of design to define environments stretching across scale, fabric, social contexts, territories, sensibilities, and objects. Sharing a common thread lecture guests hold a deeply rooted agenda linking people to place, building to place, material to place, and social values to place. The shared agenda will serve as a guide to establish questions and define values into each specific architectural investigation-defining new narratives for each design intervention that shape inclusive, equitable, resilient, and most of all spaces of excitement. These uncommon approaches to practice challenge the profession’s contemporary thinking on the role of architecture; stretching design thinking across the limits of building. In these innovative practices, there is a contemplative yet vigilant approach in the relationship of architecture and urbanism, an elasticity of design emerges. Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism sets out to discuss the futures of design, culture, and environment.