[Recent Lecture] Steven Ehrlich
Mon Oct 26 6pm @ EMPAC:
Steven Ehrlich: “Evolving Multicultural Modernism”_
Steven Ehrlich, founding partner of Ehrlich Architects and member RPI class of ’68, learned early on the significance of how architecture responds to the culture and the environment – he is a self-proclaimed “architectural anthropologist.” Upon graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Architecture, Ehrlich spent six years living and working in Africa, serving for two years with the Peace Corps as their first architect in Marrakech, Morocco. He later traveled across the Sahara and taught architecture at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. The lessons of indigenous building were instrumental in forming Ehrlich’s approach to design and continue to influence the firm’s work today.
Committed to educational and professional development, Ehrlich is a Visiting Professor at USC and has taught at UCLA and Sci Arch and has been a guest critic at Harvard, Arizona State University and Yale. He has lectured widely at universities and symposiums in Asia, Europe, South America, Australia and the U.S. and also sits on various awards juries across the country. Steven served on the AIA Los Angeles Board of Directors from 2008-2010 and sits on the Governor’s Board at OTIS School of Design and the DBIA National Committee on Design Excellence.
In 2014, Ehrlich Architects was awarded the 2015 AIA Architecture Firm Award by the National American Institute of Architects’ (AIA).
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