NOMA President Jason Pugh ‘06 MSAUD and President-Elect Pascale Sablan ’07 MSAAD present their work and activism as designers. They will be joined in conversation by immediate past President Kimberly Dowdell to discuss what is next for NOMA upon their 50th Anniversary as an organization and what it has meant for them to ‘lift as they rise’ in their careers focusing energy on the development of the next generation of designers.

Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style

Lecture by Charles L. Davis II with a response by Professor Reinhold Martin, Director of the History and Theory Sequence in the M.Arch program at Columbia GSAPP.

Charles L. Davis II is an associate professor of architectural history and criticism the University at Buffalo. Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), traces the historical integrations of race and style theory in paradigms of “architectural organicism,” or movements that modeled design on the generative principles of nature.