About this collection

The College of Architecture and Planning Guest Lecture Series Recordings collection contains digital audio files made from recordings of lectures held at the Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning since its founding in the 1960s.

 

The college has a history of fostering a vibrant guest lecture series that brings numerous architects, landscape architects, designers, urban planners, and preservationists to speak to the students and faculty. Some of the important design professionals reflected in the collection are Louis Kahn, Nathaniel Owings, Dan Kiley, Evans Woollen, Ewing Miller, and Balthazar Korab. Most of the early lectures were recorded onto audiocassette tapes which have been digitally enhanced for optimal listening. Depending on circumstances during the original recording, the quality of the audio recordings can vary.

 

The materials presently available are the first digitized installment of 50 audio recordings in the collection that contains over 400 recordings. More lectures will be added as they are digitized.

 

Below is a list of all lecturers, lectures, and lecture dates available in this collection. Select the title to access the digitized lecture.

Lecturer

Lecture Title and Date

Jeffrey Ellis Aronin

"Climate in architecture." January 8, 1968.

Edmund Bacon

"Planning, architecture, and politics." January 10, 1972.

Jacques Blumer

"Atelier 5." April 24, 1967.

Elliott Brenner

"Experimental architecture." April 24, 1967.

Samuel Brody

"Urban housing." January 15, 1973.

Grady Clay

"Staying ahead of the urban crowd." November 13, 1967.

Charles Counts

"American crafts." March 11, 1968.

George Danforth

"The work of Mies van Der Rohe." February 12, 1968.

Jeanne Davern

"The future of architecture." October 16, 1967.

Arthur Erickson

"The work of his firm." September 18, 1972.

Tom Everman

"Project and office management." SOM Lecture Series, September 17, 1973.

Albert Fein

"Frederick Law Olmstead and tradition." October 9, 1972.

Paul Friedberg

"Dynamics of open space." September 20, 1971.

William J. Geddis

"Recent work of TAC [The Architects' Collaborative, Inc.]." January 8, 1973.

Romaldo Giurgola

"Romaldo Giurgola: his private architectural practice." November 11, 1968.

Whitney Gordon

"International slums." October 3, 1966.

Whitney Gordon

"Architecture in Middletown." January 15, 1968.

King Graf

"Campus planning." October 17, 1966.

A. J. H. M. Haak

"Dutch architecture." September 19, 1966.

George Hall

"Planning the Calumet River basin." October 2, 1967.

Edward T. Hall

"Proxemics--man's use of space." October 23, 1972.

John Hannaford

"A plan for Muncie and Anderson." February 13, 1967.

Harwell Harris

"Designing architecture in California and Texas." December 18, 1967.

Harwell Harris

"Greene and Greene architects." December 19, 1967.

Harwell Harris

"Louis Sullivan." December 19, 1967.

Charles Harris

"Organization and management of design firms." October 2, 1972.

Richard Howard

"Architectural graphics." September 25, 1967.

William Johnson

"Landscape architecture and the environment." January 13, 1969.

Louis I. Kahn

"Architecture." April 14, 1971.

Fazlur Khan

"Long span structures." SOM Lecture Series, September 24, 1973.

Fazlur Khan

"The SOM office process: engineering and the computer." SOM Lecture Series, September 25, 1973.

Balthazar Korab

"The architect photographer." January 22, 1973.

Leslie Laskey

"Design education now." October 23, 1967.

Victor A. Lundy

"On architecture." October 30, 1972.

H. Roll McLaughlin

"Future for the past." January 22, 1968.

David Meeker

"James Associates, Inc.." October 9, 1967.

Ewing Miller and L. Wheeler

"Behavioral research for architectural planning." December 11, 1967.

Howard Mitchell, conductor

"Music and architecture in the environment of man, AIA Centennial Concert." May 16, 1957.

Samuel V. Noe

"Strategic urban design." November 14, 1966.

Franz Oswald

"Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center, Harvard University." October 30, 1967.

Nathaniel Owings

"The spaces in between." SOM Lecture Series, September 10, 1973.

J. Norman Pease

"Charlotte/Mecklenburg Governmental Center." November 6, 1967.

Robert A. Peterson

"Brazilia." March 27, 1967.

Robert Propst

"Furniture exhibition opening." April 3, 1967.

Mildred Schmertz

"Russian architecture." 1973.

Jerome Sincoff

"National Air and Space Museum." September 25, 1972.

George M. Stephens Jr.

"Urban and regional planning." February 6, 1967.

Evans Woollen III

"Radiant city revisited." May 15, 1967.

Thomas K. Zung

"Concepts of architecture in the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico." December 4, 1967.

 

 

"Building dedication speech." March 1972.

 


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