Mon Apr-8 6pm @ CBIS Auditorium.

The Kornblut Lecture Series is designed to introduce students to legal issues they may face in their future practices

This semester guest speaker is Emily Grandstaff-Rice ’99, an alum and practitioner in Boston. Ms. Grandstaff-Rice is Director At-Large of the AIA Board of Directors, where she has taken a leading role in addressing equity matters — a very timely issue that will be the topic of her talk.

Emily Grandstaff-Rice FAIA is an architect at Arrowstreet with experience on a broad range of academic, hospitality, institutional, and commercial projects. Her leadership includes serving as 2014 president of the Boston Society of Architects and chairing the Equity in Architecture Commission. She is the elected 2018-2020 Director At-large for the AIA Board of Directors. Emily’s innovative design work reinforces that a building is more than its shell; it is an experience. She is a frequent speaker and writer on the future of architectural practice, with a fascination by how technology, the social economy, and environmental urgency are addressed in design.

There will be a cookies-and-punch reception at CBIS immediately following the lecture.