06/23/2023. “House Histories and Radioactive Landscapes: Global Lessons from the ‘Backyard,’” paper presented at conference: ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference: Educating the Cosmopolitan Architect, Reykjavik, Iceland. With Nora Wendl. [forthcoming]
05/05/2023. “Scientology and the Cold War Pursuit of Property (Value),” paper presented at workshop: Lines of Property. Humanities Center, University of Rochester, New York. [forthcoming]
03/31/2023. “Practices Have No Endings,” paper presented at symposium: Frascari Symposium VI: Finishing: The Ends of Architecture, Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech. [forthcoming]
03/23/2023. “(House)Keeping Secrets,” Keynote lecture for symposium: International Archive of Women in Architecture Annual Symposium, Virginia Tech.
11/19/2022. “Imperial Immortality: The Military Economy of Architecture Practice,” paper presented at conference: Liberated Histories & Imperial Afterlives: Architecture, Urbanism, Heritage, & Hybridity in Post-Colonial Conditions. Center for Urban Studies in Kyiv, Ukraine and College of Charleston, SC.
10/07/2022. “Un-Incorporating Architecture,” 3-day workshop for Practice Session 10, University of Michigan [forthcoming].
05/10/2022. “Architecture Beyond Capitalism,” 3-day workshop for Building Information exhibition, Architekturmuseum, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany [forthcoming].
03/15/2022. “Anti-Trust to Anti-Union,” Guest lecture for course “Professional Practice,” Dept. of Architecture University of Michigan.
03/11/2022. “The Architecture (of an) Office,” Guest lecture for course “Work, Technology, Access,” Dept. of Architecture, Toronto University.
07/03/2021. “Labor,” 2-week workshop for Architecture Beyond Capitalism summer school, with Kadambari Baxi.
04/16/2021. “Corporate and Classified: The Architecture Archive in the Age of Secrecy,” Paper presentation at conference: Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference: “What is the New Architectural Archive,” Montreal, Canada.
03/05/2021. “Maine's River Valley: Labor, Landscapes, and Legacies,” lecture and conversation: American Roundtable, Architecture League of New York.
02/11/2021. “Large Firms and Political Economy.” Paper co-presented at conference with Peggy Deamer: Largest Architectural Firms in the Global Scenario. Authorship Histories, Design Cultures and Managerial Organization, Florence, Italy. [Forthcoming]
01/13/2021. “Understanding the Past/Documenting the Present/Imagining the Future” panelist and: American Roundtable, Architecture League of New York.
10/23/2020. “Classified: Architecture Archives in the Age of Secrecy,” paper presented at symposium: ARCHITECTURES ARCHIVES, Society of Architecture Historians Great Britain, Architectural Association, London.
09/18/2020. “The Corporate Archive,” paper presented at symposium: “The Audience and Use,” Society of Architecture Historians Great Britain, Architectural Association, London.
05/21/2020. “Architecture Archives in the Age of Secrecy,” Lecture for Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne, Australia.
03/12/20. “Subsidiary Architecture: Multi-Firm Practices and the Blurring of Distinction Between Large and Small Firms.” 108th ACSA National Meeting, San Diego, CA.
03/9/20. “Classified: Architecture Archives in the Age of Secrecy,” Lecture for “After-Life: The Digital Future of Visual History Archives,” Australian Center for Architecture History, Urban and Cultural Heritage, Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne, Australia.
09/26/19. “Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of the Bauhaus,” film introduction and panel discussion, American Institute of Architects, Albuquerque, NM.
04/26/19. “Aesthetics of Indeterminacy: The Architecture of Conglomerates,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference: “The Geopolitical Aesthetics of Postmodernism,” Providence, Rhode Island.
02/15/19. Workshop, “Power: Infrastructure in America,” Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, NY.
10/17/18. "Conglomeration,” Lecture for symposium: “Architectural Design as Modern Institution," 60th Anniversary Tongji Design and Research Institute, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
10/12/18. “(Re)Defining Architecture Practice,” Lecture and panelist for symposium: PRACTICE: Outside In | Inside Out, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
10/10/18. “Design and Profit: Architectural Practice in the Age of Accumulation,” Public lecture, Norwich University, Northfield, VT.
06/24/18. "Alternatives to What? The Business Side of Architecture Practice." Lecture, Free School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA.
05/04/18. "Conglomeration." Public lecture, Cal Poly Pomona Department of Architecture, Pomona, CA.
04/20/18. “Labor Issues in the Academy.” Panel Co-Chair. Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference. St. Paul, MN.
03/10/18. “From Aerospace to Hollywood: Corporate Architecture Practice and the Value of Experiential Knowledge.” Networks of Power and Knowledge Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
11/14/17. “Conglomeration.” Public lecture, Woodbury University.
04/01/17. “Architecture Business: Corporate Practice and the Economic Value of Design, 1960-1984.” Business History Conference. Denver, Colorado.
03/25/17. “Stabilizing Practice: A Culture of Business at Daniel, Mann, Johnson, Mendenhall.” ACSA Annual Meeting. Detroit, Michigan.
05/28/16. “Research, Theory, and Design.” Panel Discussion for New Zealand Institute of Architects. New Zealand Architecture Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
05/27/16. “Asymmetric Labors: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice.” Architects Meet in Fuoribiennale. Palazzo Widmann, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy.
05/07/16. “Practice as Political Ecology: Daniel, Mann, Johnson, Mendenhall.” Assembling Values Conference. Columbia University.
04/07/16. “Evading Publics: Architects, Activists, and the Design of Akichi at Tokyo's Miyashita Park.” Paper presented at conference: Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference: “Public Spaces and the Role of the Architect.” Pasadena, California.
04/10/15. “Akichi Undercommons: Moving Beyond the ‘Public’ of Public Space.” Negotiating the Public Sphere: Rethinking History from Below. University of California, Irvine.
09/9/14. “Programming the Office and the History of the Workplace.” Guest Lecture. University of California, Los Angeles.
06/11/14. “Akichi Undercommons." Anxieties of Interdisciplinary Symposium. University of California, Los Angeles.
06/21/14. "The History of Office Work: How We Got Here." Gensler Los Angeles.
05/31/14. "Downtown Los Angeles and the Changing Nature of Work." IIDA Roundtable, NBBJ Los Angeles.
05/03/11. "Transparency as Ideology: Comparing Berlin and the Gambia." Urban Symbolic Landscapes: Power, Language, Memory. University of Helsinki, Finland.
04/01/11. “Discourses on Transparency in Berlin and the Gambia.” Paper presented at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.