Time and Location

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

“I Object” presentation by Andrew Zago, partner and founder of Zago Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. Zago is the 2016 MASTERcritc in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Bios

Andrew Zago, partner and founder of Zago Architecture, has over twenty-five years of professional experience in architecture, urbanism, and education. He is a licensed architect in the State of California and Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. In 1987 he founded AKS RUNO in Los Angeles with Bahram Shirdel and later, Shirdel Zago Kipnis with Bahram Shirdel and Jeffrey Kipnis. In 1991 he established Zago Architecture in Detroit. Zago currently teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and is the coordinator of their Visual Studies program. He is also currently a Clinical Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). From 2003 to 2007 he was the founding director of the Master of Architecture program at the City College of New York, and he has also taught at Cornell University, the University of Michigan, UCLA and the Ohio State University. He frequently lectures, and his work has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, Detroit, Princeton and Los Angeles. Andrew Zago is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a member of the National Register of Peer Professionals of the General Services Administration in Washington. He is a recipient of both an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellowship Grant from the United States Artists organization.

For more information about this speaker’s visit, contact Assistant Professor Jasmine Benyamin or Assistant Professor Whitney Moon. This lecture is sponsored in part by the David & Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation.