Paula Meijerink is the 2011 Gerald Sheff Visiting professor at McGill. She is a landscape architecture from the Netherlands and a founding principle of WANTED, a landscape group. This lecture "Nature's A Bitch" is about the complex and often contradictory role of nature in the built environment, and how difficult it is to achieve a sense of nature in architecture. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P110392ARCHMeijerink.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2011/03/ARCHMeijerink.png" /]

Gregory Henriquez is from Vancouver, and he studied architecture at Carleton and then McGill under Alberto Pérez-Gómez. This lecture "Vancouver: Resort City?" is about work that focuses on housing and mixed-use development–specifically in Vancouver–and all of the ethical, social and economic issues that arise when creating this kind of built environment. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P110391ARCHHenriquez.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2011/03/Henriquez.png" /]

Since 2001, Lawrence Scarpa's firm Pugh + Scarpa has won many awards, most recently the AIA firm of the year award. Their work is a combination of fun, innovation, and social awareness. They are material groundbreakers, using objects such as ping pong balls, broom bristles, shrink wrap and dixie cups. They have a wide ranging practice which encompasses private homes, affordable housing, special needs housing, corporate interiors and even a solar electric vehicle charging station. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P110389ARCHScarpa.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2011/03/Scarpa.png" /]

Joern Siebke is an architectural lighting designer from Germany, practicing in NYC with Arc Light Design. His background is in landscape architecture and cinema. This lecture "Translight: lighting the transition" examines the confluence of political agendas, corporate interests and public awareness in terms of technological advancements in current lighting design practices. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P110390ARCHSeibke.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2011/03/Siebke.png" /]

Born in Tokyo Japan, Shigeru Ban has called himself an "accidental environmentalist" and his architecture is well known for its innovative use of materials such as paper, cardboard, shipping containers and even beer crates. This lecture outlines some of Shigeru Ban's work, as well as some of his disaster relief projects. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P110388ARCHBan.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2011/03/Ban.png" /]

Monica Adair and Stephen Kopp, Gerald Sheff Visiting Professors in Architecture for the Winter 2010 term, from Saint John, NB, on their route from architecture school to private practice. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P100275ARAdairKopp.mp4" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2010/05/AdairKopp.png" /]

Dan Graham, a New York City artist who delves primarily in hybridization, in "Work Between Art and Architecture" on his sculptures installed across the globe. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P100274ARGraham.mp4" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2010/05/Graham.png" /]

The principal of Werner Sobek Engineering & Design (Stuttgart & Chicago) delivers the Steel Structures Education Foundation lecture on "Sketches for the Future: Structure, Design, Ecology - A Constructive Dialogue." [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P100273ARWerner.mp4" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2010/05/Sobek.png" /]

In this talk, Ricardo Castro speaks in tribute to world-renowned Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona. Castro's focus of research and field-work address the idea of mnemonic and systemic thinking, coupled with the concept of limit in the development of urban topographies and architectural space in Hispanic America. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P100246ARCastro.mp4" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2010/05/Castro.png" /]

In this lecture, Gerald W. Billes speaks about the role that his firm, Billes Architecture, had in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P100247_Billes.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2010/04/billesthumb.JPG" /]

Torben Berns received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2002 and has lived and practiced in Japan and North America, having been a Japanese Ministry of Culture Monbushou scholar at Kyoto University and run his own atelier in Osaka. In this lecture, he talks about the importance of surfaces and images in architecture. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P100245_Berns.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2010/04/bernsthumb.JPG" /]

Brian Healy was educated at the Pennsylvania State University and the Yale School of Architecture where he was editor the architectural journal. In this lecture he talks about some of the work he's done with his architectural firm, Brian Healy Architects and the architecture of commonplaces. [flashvideo file="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/pods/architecture/P100244_Healy.m4v" height=344 image="http://podcasts.mcgill.ca/files/2010/03/healythumb.png" /]