Doors Open Denver: Vishaan Chakrabarti Keynote Lecture
September 26, 2024
DAF Members get early access to all Doors Open Denver events. Not a member? Join today.
About the event: Join Denver Architecture Foundation for our Doors Open Denver Kickoff! We are beginning the weekend with an exciting keynote lecture from Vishaan Chakrabarti, architect and author, followed by a Q+A. We will then retreat to a reception space for mingling, beverages, and a signing of Vishaan’s new book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy.
About the book (from 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.
Accessibility: Please review accessibility information at the Denver Art Museum here.