Block Courses
Gillmor Visiting Lectureship
Fall Block Course, offered in October
The Douglas Gillmor Visiting Lectureship was established to recognize the contributions of Emeritus Professor Douglas Gillmor, the founding Director of the Architecture Program. The lectureship allows the Program to bring to The University of Calgary, on an annual basis, an architect or architectural educator to deliver a series of seminars in architectural history and/or theory. The recipient of the Lectureship will also deliver a public lecture. Students in the Architecture Program are required to take this course at least once, it may be repeated for elective credit. This course is only available to students in the Architecture Program, and by special permission of the course manager.
Previous recipients of the Gillmor Lectureship are:
2011 Dr. Jane Rendell, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
2010 Dr. Angela Piccini, Bristol University
2009 Dr. Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati
2008 Dr. Karen Till, Virginia Tech
2007 Dr. Setha Low, CUNY Graduate School
2006 Dr. Annmarie Adams, McGill University
2005 Dr. Dana Cuff, University of California at Los Angeles
2004 Prof. Richard Weston, Cardiff University
2003 Prof. Herb Enns, University of Manitoba
2002 Dr. Robert Jan Van Pelt, University of Waterloo
2001 Peter Busby, Busby and Associates
2000 Prof. Scott Poole, Virginia Tech
1999 Prof. Albert Pope, Rice University
1998 Dr. Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh
Somerville Visiting Lectureship
Winter Block Course, offered in January
William Lyon Somerville Visiting Lectureship was established by an endowment given to the University of Calgary by the late Mrs. A.G. Burton of Calgary in memory of her father. The gift was matched by the University to create a fund for the maintenance of an annual visiting distinguished lectureship program in Architecture, within the Faculty of Environmental Design.
William Lyon Somerville, ARCA, FRAIC, FRIBA was a distinguished Toronto architect born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1886. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of America (New York City) and began his career with the New York firm of Dana and Murphy. He had a long, energetic and successful career based in Toronto, practicing for a substantial period under the well-known firm name Somerville, McMurrich and Oxley. Mr. Somerville was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He received an honourary Bachelor of Laws degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
The William Lyon Somerville Visiting Lectureship is designed to bring a visiting practitioner, academic or critic to the Architecture program annually, and that coincidental with the visit, an annual lecture be given by the distinguished guest for the benefit of the University and the Community it serves, concerning the subject of Architecture. The annual lecture is to be known as the William Lyon Somerville Lecture, and is to be published alongside some continuing scholarship regarding Mr. Somerville’s work. The program was inaugurated in February 1992. Recipients in the last 10 years:
2012 Michael Weinstock, London, UK
2011 Adam Caruso, London, UK
2010 Mark Smout, London, UK
2009 Hrvoje Njiric, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 Koen van Velsen, Hilversum, Netherlands
2007 Alison Brooks, London, UK
2006 Burton Hamfelt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Federico Soriano, Madrid, Spain
2004 Jacques Rousseau, Montreal, Quebec
2003 Cedric Price, London, UK
2002 Carlo Baumschlager, Austria
2001 Inaki Abalos, Madrid, Spain
Taylor Visiting Lectureship
Winter Block Course, offered in February
The Dale Taylor Visiting Lectureship is an intensive one-week workshop course offered to senior students in the Winter term. It is named to honour Dale Taylor, FRAIC, a past Director of the Architecture Program and Professor Emeritus. Recipients:
2012 Nick Puckett, Kentucky
2011 Drura Parrish, Kentucky
2010 Andrew Kudless, San Francisco
2009 Marc Fornes, New York