October 21, 2021

VIRTUAL

12pm program begins

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1 LU (pending)

Architecture, Murder et al

Brian Delford Andrews

University of Memphis Department of Architecture

This lecture will focus on several projects and drawings from Brian Andrews’s recent book VERVM FICTVM. A few of the projects are focused on murder and how it can be represented in architecture, and more specifically how the victims can be honored.

Learning Objectives:

1. The guests will understand how the hand drawing remains a relevant issue in architecture.
2. The guests will comprehend a methodology whereby other non-traditional aspects of culture can influence architecture and its subsequent design.
3. The guests will examine the role of other art forms and how they might offer solutions to architecture through complex narratives.
4. The guest will apprehend the architectural drawings as a valid means of representation in contemporary architecture.

Brian Delford Andrews received his BArch from Tulane University and his March from Princeton University. As an undergraduate student, he studied in London at the Architectural Association for a year. Andrews is a registered architect and has continually practiced while teaching. He received the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship and was a finalist for the Prix de Rome. He has taught at the University of Virginia, Syracuse University, and the University of Southern California. He served as both the Robert Mills Distinguished Professor at Clemson University and as the Hyde Chair of Design Excellence at the University of Nebraska. He currently teaches in the Department of Architecture at the University of Memphis.

Brian Andrews’s projects, drawings, and writings have appeared in various journals, including Architecture, Modulus, Architecture Boston, and the Journal of Architecture Education. He recently published Vervm Fictvm, a collection of drawings and architectural speculation from the past 35 years. He authored the book Rationalism and Poetry: Guiseppe Terragni’s Asilo D’Infanzia Sant’Elia, and co-authored Architecture, Principia with Gail Borden in 2013. Andrews has exhibited at numerous universities including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Texas at Austin.