January 13, 2022
6:30 PM est
Lori Brown AIA, Author, Professor
Lori Brown’s research focuses on relationships between architecture and social justice with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships. Her two books include Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, an edited collection of international women designers and architects employing feminist methodologies in their practices and Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals exploring highly securitized spaces and the impact of legislation upon such places. Currently her two book projects include Birthing Centers, Borders and Bodies and co-editing The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015 with Dr. Karen Burns.
Lori is the co-founder and leads ArchiteXX, www.architexx.org, a women and architecture group bridging the academy and practice in New York City. She is a Professor of Architecture and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Syracuse University and is a registered architect in New York State.
She received a Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University.
How and where can architects create change?
How can architecture contribute more significantly to the world’s pressing problems? How and where can architects create change? Central to Lori’s research in under-examined areas such as reproductive healthcare, domestic and immigrant shelters, is her long-standing commitment to architecture becoming a more responsive and inclusive discipline, and a more significant collaborator in the world’s most pressing issues by engaging the politics of space. Through this work, she is expanding the locations of architecture’s participation. Lori will discuss a few of her projects that are contributing in diverse ways and how her own experiences set her on this trajectory.