The J. Carter Brown Memorial Lecture Series, curated by History of Art and Architecture Professor Dietrich Neumann, highlights contemporary architects from across the country.

"Material, Monument, Memory" with Eric Höweler of Höweler+Yoon

Thursday, April 23, 2026, 6:30 pm
Room 120, List Arts Building, 64 College Street

Watch key moments from the lecture here.

• Histories Revealed: They’re All Around Us
• Inscribing Lives into Stone: Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA
• Creating Structures That Are ‘Meaning-full’
• Memory, Meaning, Values

"Asymmetric Parallelism: Architecture and Politics in Senghor’s Senegal" with Martino Stierli of MoMA

Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:30 pm
Room 120, List Arts Building, 64 College Street

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• Negritude and Asymmetric Parallelism shaping post-independence architecture
• Triangular motif and fractal geometry
• The pattern of community mindedness

"Building for People and Plants" with Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of WORKac

Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 6:30pm
White Family Salon, Andrews House, 13 Brown Street

Watch key moments from the lecture here.

• Mexico City: Pilares
• Miami: Parking Garage
• Batroun, Lebanon: Residences