Public lectures on New Urbanism
location: Zaal A, Faculteit Bouwkunde (Julianalaan 134)
In light of the New Urbanism Seminar two public lectures will be held on Tuesday 24th of May. Guestspeakers are prof. Samantha Salden of the University of Notre Dame (USA) and Ir. Peter Verschuren of the Council for European Urbanism (NL). They will address the embodied values and design principles of New Urbanism. These lectures start at 16:00h in Zaal A; the admission is free.
New Urbanism Seminar
The seminar is an collaboration of the Chair of Urban Design and the Bachelor’s Honors program Challent. The goal of the seminar is to address the embodied values and design principles of New Urbanism, which have a strong focus on Urban Form, Sustainability and Community Design.
The lectures start at 16:00h in Zaal A; the admission is free.
On Wednesday the 25th of May both speakers will teach a New Urbanism workshop for students of the Challent program.
Samantha Salden teaches architectural design and the history of urban form at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels at Notre Dame University. She focuses on the language of architecture and how people experience space and boundaries. She draws attention to traditional cities, twentieth-century cities, urban ideologies, and innovations in New Urban planning. Prof. Salden highlights the civic responsibility the architect has in contemporary society.
Peter Verschuren is an architect and town planner with a vast array of realized projects in the Netherlands. Through his practice he has come to regard built spaces as the habitat of our species. How do people respond to such spaces—physically and psychologically? Basic human relationships such as public-private, collective-individual, other-self play themselves out in the spaces we construct. His discipline of town planning rests upon human behavior.
