Time and Place

Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 170

Overcrowded Sites and Unexpected Voids” presentation by Danielle Willkens, Assistant Professor, Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture; followed by panel discussion.

Willkens lecture takes place in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee main campus. Willkens presents the opening keynote for the UWM Historic Preservation Institute’s 2018 Spring Symposium titled “Creating Cooperative Strategies for Future Heritage Preservation.” The spring symposium continues following the keynote lecture from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM in the Historic Third Ward at the Kimpton Journeyman Hotel.

The Willkens lecture is cosponsored with the Historic Preservation Institute in the School of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (HPI UWM SARUP), the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation (WTHP), the Wisconsin Association of Historic Preservation Commissions (WAHPC), and the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP).

Bio

Danielle Willkens is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture. She is a practicing designer, researcher, and educator who is particularly interested in bringing architectural engagement to diverse audiences through interactive projects. Her experiences in practice and research include design/build projects, public installations, and on-site investigations as well as extensive archival work in several countries. Willkens was the recipient of the Society of Architectural Historians’ H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship. Between June 2016 and May 2017 she traveled to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Cuba, and Japan to research the impact of tourism on cultural heritage sites. Willkens was the Project Manager for the Learning Barge, the University of Virginia’s innovative design/build project for a floating classroom and sustainable field station on the Elizabeth River. The project was funded by grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Vested in the cultivation of ‘early intervention’ architectural education, she has been working with Duke University’s Talent Identification Program (TIP) for several years. She was an Instructor for architecture courses in the Summer Studies program and as Independent Learning Curriculum Developer, she created an original course on architecture for gifted 5th–7th grade students that was launched in late 2014.

Lecture Summary

Currently, she serves as an instructor for the summer sessions of the eStudies program for an original course entitled Architecture: Design & Reinvention. Since she arrived at Auburn, she has been working with Associate Professor Junshan Liu from the McWhorter School of Building Science on a series of projects that record and represent the built environment through the use of 3D LiDAR scans, UAV photogrammetry, and digital modeling. Their work documenting the Rural Studio was featured in the 2016 Auburn Talks. Currently, she is working with Professor Liu and an interdisciplinary team from the McWhorter School of Building Science and the Department of History on ‘Bringing History to Life’, an experimental survey and modeling project digitally reconstructing an area south of the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the ‘Bloody Sunday’ events of March 7, 1965

Symposium Context

The Historic Preservation Lectures focus on the challenges of retaining key historic buildings and districts in Milwaukee. Global trends continue to reinforce the proposition that for many decades to come, building re-use will account for a considerable amount of work in professional architectural firms. This lecture serves as a fundamental educational tool for both students and professionals. It is part of a five-year series consisting of a fall presentation by a national or international expert in the field of adaptive reuse, followed by a spring, two day preservation symposium. The symposium brings together professionals from all areas of historic preservation with the intention of creating cooperative strategies for future heritage preservation in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.

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Questions, comments?

All lectures are free and open to the public.
Additional information about the lectures and exhibitions can be found by contacting the main reception at (414) 229-4014, and by emailing any inquiries to Department of Architecture Chair Karl Wallick.