Syncopating the Urban Landscape: Community-Based Architecture in Detroit: Dan Pitera

Syncopating the Urban Landscape: Community-Based Architecture in Detroit: Dan Pitera

Categories: Lectures and Seminars | Intended for

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

12:00 AM - 7:30 PM | Add to calendar

Main Floor "PIT" Architecture Building

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Janine Debanné, 2876, janine.debanne@carleton.ca

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No registration required.

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About this Event

Host Organization: 8th Annual Charles Gordon Lecture on Society and Design and Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
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The 8th Annual Charles Gordon Lecture on Society and Design features DAN PITERA, the executive director of the DETROIT COLLABORATIVE DESIGN CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY.
This Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 6 PM
Location: the "PIT"on the Main Floor of the AZRIELI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE,
Architecture Building.

Dan Pitera is an architect and teacher, and the Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. Dan Pitera was the 2004-2005 Harvard Loeb Fellow, and the 1998 University of Nebraska Hyde Chair of Excellence. He believes the future and sustainability of any neighborhood lies in the hands of its residents and local organizations. The DCDC is a multi-disciplinary, nonprofit architecture and urban design firm which since 1994 has been dedicated to creating sustainable spaces and communities through quality design and the collaborative process, working with over 80 Detroit nonprofit organizations, community groups, and philanthropic foundations.

Charles Gordon was Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and was cross-appointed to the School of Architecture, at Carleton University. For many years Professor Gordon was also the Co-ordinator of the Directed Interdisciplinary Studies program. Professor Gordon taught at Carleton for thirty-seven years and was renowned for his scholarly research in industrial sociology, and the sociology of the environment. He studied and wrote about the relationship between design, work, and politics, producing articles such as "Goldilocks and the Three Sociologists." The Charles Gordon Lecture is made possible through an endowment fund established by his scores of friends after Professor Gordon's passing in 2004.