GENERATIONS

From strict gatekeeping to issues of representation, conditions of equity have historically established the boundaries along which successive cohorts of designers, architects, and thinkers define our discipline. These conditions evolve, remain in stasis or transform, molded by new circumstances. Though time may not erase struggles, time builds resilience. Tales of resilience, to become operative tools, must be exchanged. For these inaugural University of Miami U-SoA Parity in Design Chats, join us as we take stock, share, and work through the lived experiences of gendered minorities, across Generations.

Generations will be organized as a series of informal discussions that will touch on the historical circumstances and lived experiences of participants sourced from diverse age groups. The aim is to collect these conversations in a symposium workbook. Generations will be bookended by presentations by the keynote speakers: Denise Costanzo (PennState) and Gloria Cabral (Florianopolis, BR).

4:00 pm - Welcome

4:15 pm
- Lecture by
DENISE COSTANZO
"The Book Not Published: Denise Scott Brown and 1967"
An architectural historian and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University, Denise Costanzo's research centers on twentieth-century architectural culture. Her next book, Modern Architects and the Problem of the Postwar Rome Prize: France, Spain, America and Britain, 1940–1960 (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming) explores the collision of academicism and modernism that transformed, and ultimately sustained, architecture’s oldest system of postgraduate education at midcentury. She is co-editor (with Andrew Leach) of Italian Imprints on Twentieth Century Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the author of What Architecture Means: Connecting Ideas and Design (Routledge 2015). Her writings include essays on Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi in the Journal of Architectural Education, the Journal of Architecture, and arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, The Routledge Companion Guide to Fascist Italian Architecture: Reception and Legacy (Routledge, 2020) and the recent volume Denise Scott Brown: In Others’ Eyes (Birkhaüser, 2022).

4:45 pm - Roundtable with Faculty/Students

5:15 pm
- Lecture by
GLORIA CABRAL
An architect of Paraguayan origin, born in São Paulo in 1982, Gloria Cabral has garnered international acclaim for her remarkable contributions to the field of architecture. Significant achievements have marked her illustrious career, and she was recently invited to deliver the inaugural lecture at the prestigious OtiimaLAB from the University of Miami School of Architecture.
Cabral is an alumna of the National University of Asuncion in Paraguay. In 2014, she achieved a notable milestone by being selected as the protégé of renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor through the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative Program. This prestigious recognition underscored her status as an emerging talent in the global architectural community, paving the way for collaborative ventures with Zumthor and other Rolex protégés worldwide.
Among her notable accomplishments, Cabral secured first place in the Rehabilitation and Recycling category at the 2010 Pan-American Biennial for her exemplary work on the Teletón Children's Rehabilitation Center project. Her talents continued to shine on the international stage, as she was honored with the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale for Best Participation in the International Exhibition. In 2018, she received the esteemed Moira Gemmill Award for Emerging Architects and the 2021 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture presented by the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in France.
Presently based in Brazil, Gloria Cabral remains an active and influential architectural figure. Her commitment to the profession is unwavering as she continues to practice architecture while also imparting her extensive knowledge through lectures, courses, and workshops on a global scale.

5:45 pm - Roundtable with Faculty/Students

6:15 pm - Final Discussion

7:00 pm - Music + Drinks with DJ LAGRIMAS DE ORO

FREE EVENT. Everyone is welcome! Reserve your space.