BEAT is continuing to work in collaboration with architects to provide a platform for promoting equality within the profession, through networking and leadership opportunities. BEAT Talks are a series discussions held at the offices of varying architects across the city. Hosts share their learned experience.
We were honoured to have Ila Berman host the BEAT Talk session on Thursday, December 3rd, 2020.
BEYOND EQUALITY: Regendering Architecture and Architectural Education
The talk will focus on the history of women’s activism while critiquing the patriarchal ideological norms that led to the historical exclusion of women from educational institutions in general, and architecture in particular, and the systemic gender biases that are still pervasive in our culture. Beyond Equality will also call into question the assimilationist model that operates at the base of all efforts toward equity to more radically and creatively rethink what women want architecture and architectural education to become moving forward.
About Ila Berman
Ila Berman, Dean of the School of Architecture, and Edward E. Elson Professor at the University of Virginia, and Principal of Scaleshift design, is an architect, theorist, and curator of architecture and urbanism whose research investigates the relationship between culture and the evolution of contemporary material, technological and spatial practices. She is a featured alumna of Harvard University’s Grounded Visionaries series and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Design, a Special Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from Tulane University, where she was a Favrot Professor, founding director of the URBANbuild program, and the Associate Dean of the School of Architecture until 2007. At UVA, Berman is the founder of the Next Cities Institute, an interdisciplinary research center focused on the design of global urban futures, and the editor of the Next Cities book series. Berman’s work and publications include Expanded Field: Architectural Installation Beyond Art; FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape; URBANbuild local_global; and New Constellations New Ecologies, among others. She is also the creator of New Orleans: Urban Operations for a Future City an exhibition at the 2006 International Architectural Biennale in Venice, Italy, and co-designer of WBA3: Architecture in the Expanded Field at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and Urban Syncopation an installation exhibited at Nuit Blanche at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto most recently exhibited in the Data and Matter exhibition at the 2018 Venice Biennale.
BEAT Talks qualifies for OAA Learning Hours.
This Talk is now available online!