Special Art Lecture
Internationally known architectural designer Lars Spuybroek to speak at Lawrence Arts Center
LAWRENCE — Douglas county residents and university students have the opportunity to learn about architectural design from an internationally known expert.
Lars Spuybroek is a professor of architectural design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 8, at the Lawrence Arts Center. 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Kan.
“As designers we have to do two, seemingly opposite, things,” said Spuybroek. “One is to find our way back to beauty, the other is to start conceptualizing our new, digital tools. I think the best is to combine these into one effort.”
Spuybroek’s work focuses on theory, design methodology and research in geometry and manufacturing. At Georgia, he is creating a curriculum that involves theoretical seminars, design studios and the manufacturing of large-scale models at Georgia Tech’s laboratory of computer numerical controlled machinery.
The principal of NOX art and architecture studio in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Spuybroek researches the relationship between art, architecture and computing, not only by building but also by writing, speaking and teaching.
Sharon Perry Galloway of Lawrence and Roswell, Ga., and her family, established the lecture series in memory of her husband, Thomas Galloway, who died in 2007. Thomas Galloway was the founding chair of the graduate program in urban planning in KU’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning, where he was a professor from 1971 to 1980. Sharon Perry Galloway established the lecture series through KU Endowment to bring speakers to the university who are leaders in architecture and urban planning.
As a professor, Thomas Galloway encouraged his students to deepen their understanding of the present by studying social, cultural, economical, environmental, ideological and philosophical entities. He charged his students to go out into the world and change it with a sense of responsibility and humility.
After leaving KU, Galloway held a faculty position at the University of Rhode Island. He later served as dean and professor in the College of Design at Iowa State University. In 1992, he was named dean of the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Galloway was well-known for establishing partnerships with Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris LaVillette in France and the Shenyang Technological University in China. He chaired a team that reviewed a new College of Engineering and Design at the University of Abu Dhabi and served as an urban planning consultant to the Sheik.
During his career, Galloway was honored academically and professionally. He was listed among the “30 Leaders Who Bridge Practice and Education” in America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools, published in the 2005 edition of Design Intelligence, and was named a Lexus Leader of the Arts by Public Broadcasting Atlanta.
KU Endowment is the independent, nonprofit organization serving as the official fundraising and fund-management foundation for KU. Founded in 1891, KU Endowment was the first foundation of its kind at a U.S. public university.
