Doors Open Denver Keynote Lecture: Vishaan Chakrabarti

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Tickets on sale to Members Friday August 2 at 4pm MT. Tickets on sale to General Public Friday August 16 at 4pm MT.

About the event: The Doors Open Denver weekend begins with an important keynote lecture from Vishaan Chakrabarti, renowned architect, thought leader, and founder of PAU Studio, on the launch day of his newest book, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. A cocktail reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Books will be available for purchase on site.

About the book (Princeton University Press): The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an “architecture of urbanity,” showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all.

Lavishly illustrated with a wealth of original graphics, data visualizations, photographs, and drawings, The Architecture of Urbanity eloquently explains why cities are the last, best hope for humanity, and why designers must, alongside political, business, community, and cultural leaders, steward the healing of our planet.

About Vishaan: With over thirty years of proven experience authoring and implementing visionary urban architecture, Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Founder and Creative Director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU, where he leads the firm’s growing global portfolio of cultural, institutional, and public projects including Indianapolis’ new multi-modal Wave Bridge, the redesign of New York’s Penn Station, the design of the FAA’s new sustainable air traffic control tower prototype, which will be adapted to replace over 100 aging towers in regional and municipal airports across the nation, the expansion of
Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Yards, Ford Motor Company’s Michigan Central Station project in Detroit’s Corktown, Princeton’s Hobson College, and a unique urban village in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as well as serving as the Collaborating Architect on the recently announced JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters.

Vishaan is also the author of the book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America and the upcoming The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy.

He was the William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, a professor at Columbia University for a decade, and served as the Director of City Planning in post-9/11 New York.

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