NEW YORK, January 29, 2007 – The City College of New York (CCNY) School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA), has announced its Spring 2008 Lecture Series. Entitled “Architecture: A Social Vision,” the series consists of six lectures and begins February 7. 

The lecturers include architecture critics and planners as well as prominent architects. Lectures are held 6 p.m. Thursdays in Room 95 of Shepard Hall on the City College campus, located at 138^th Street and Convent Avenue in Manhattan, and are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by F.J. Sciame Construction Co. A list of dates, speakers and their topics follows:

February 7: Kathryn Dean, Partner, Dean/Wolf Architects, New York, and Assistant Professor of Architecture, Columbia University; “Impact of Identity.”

February 21: Martin Filler, architecture critic for The New York Review of Books; “Contemporary Architecture and Its Critics."

"February 28: Peter Gluck, Principal, Peter L. Gluck & Partners, New York; “Fear of Architecture: A Problem of Process.”

March 13: Evan Douglis, Principal, Evan Douglis Studio, and Chair of the Undergraduate School of Architecture at Pratt Institute; “Infinity Nets in an Era of Amnesia.”

March 20: Herman Hertzberger, prominent Dutch architect and Professor Emeritus, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands; “Social Space.”

March 27: Amanda Burden, AICP, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning, “Shaping the City: A Strategic Blueprint for New York’s Future.”

For additional information on the Spring 2008 Lecture Series, call 212-650-7118. For information on continuing education for New York State licensed architects, call 212-650-7312.

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For more than160 years, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. Over 14,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; The School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA); The School of Education; The Grove School of Engineering, and The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. For additional information, visit www.ccny.cuny.edu.