Please join us Friday, November 17th from 12 -1 pm for a lecture at the CUDC featuring Dana Cuff.
In-person event at the CUDC, 1309 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200, Cleveland with Zoom Livestream
Light lunch will be served. Free and open to all.
Dana Cuff will give a talk and lead a roundtable conversation focusing on her new book, Architectures of Spatial Justice — a field-defining work that demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities.
Book cover for Architectures of Spatial Justice by Dana Cuff. List of topics covered in the book including: Architecture at the Heart of Spatial Justice, Leveraging Design, Radically Public Architecture, Partnerships of Difference, Generative Demonstrations, Legible Policy, Critical Junctures, Architecture’s Practical Future
As state violence, the pandemic, and environmental collapse have exposed systemic inequities, architects and urbanists have been pushed to confront how their actions contribute to racism and climate crisis—and how they can effect change. Establishing an ethics of spatial justice to lead architecture forward, Professor Cuff shows why the discipline requires critical examination—in relation to not only buildings and the capital required to realize them but privilege, power, aesthetics, and sociality. That is, it requires a reevaluation of architecture's fundamental tenets.
Emerging from more than two decades of the author's own project-based research, Architectures of Spatial Justice examines ethically driven practices that break with professional conventions to correct long-standing inequities in the built environment, uncovering architecture's limits—and its potential.
Photo of Dana Cuff against a white background
Dana Cuff is a professor, author, and scholar in architecture and urbanism at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is also the founding director of cityLAB, a think tank that explores design innovations in the emerging metropolis. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Architecture from UC Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about postwar Los Angeles, modern American urbanism, the architectural profession, affordable housing, and spatially embedded computing. Two books have been particularly important: Architecture: the Story of Practice which remains an influential text about the culture of the design profession, and The Provisional City, a study of residential architecture’s role in transforming Los Angeles over the past century. Her urban and architectural research now span across continents to Sweden, China, Japan, and Mexico. In 2013 and 2016, Cuff received major, multi-year awards from the Mellon Foundation for the Urban Humanities Initiative, bringing design and the humanities together at UCLA.
One AICP Certification Maintenance credit is available for this session.