Lectures

Invited Speaking Engagements

May 2024 Holocaust Museum LA Live Event Presentation Bloomberg Connects in Partnership with the Center for Architecture and AIA NY. Lecturer Hagy Belzberg

March 2024 Ada Louise Huxtable Annual Lecture, Ruskin Art Club. Lecturer Hagy Belzberg

January 2024 Mass Timber Event by the Housing Council of the Urban Land Institute San Diego. Panelist Cory Taylor

October 2023 “PLAT23” An Architecture Event with a Focus on the Possibilities of Metal, Stockholm, Sweden. Keynote speaker Brock DeSmit.

October 2023 Learning Center Pavilion Presentation, Holocaust Museum Los Angeles. Lecturer Hagy Belzberg.

October 2022 17th Advanced Building Skins Conference + Expo, Bern Switzerland. Keynote speaker Brock DeSmit.

August 2022 “MC + LA” Teulo Talks Presentation, aired New Zealand, 5 August 2022. Lecturer Hagy Belzberg.

Mar, 2020 “SESSION 1A – Deep Dive: A New Breeze Block with A Self-Supporting Structural System,” Façade Tectonics Pre-Conference Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 24 March 2020

Mar, 2020 “Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls: Merging Structural Integrity of Reinforced Masonry with Environmental & Aesthetic Benefits of Breeze Blocks,” Façade Tectonics Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 25 March 2020

Nov, 2019 Delivering Complex Facade Systems Workshop, Facades+ Los Angeles, November 15

Sep, 2018 NC State University School of Architecture and AIA Triangle Fall 2018 Lecture Series, Raleigh, North Carolina, 24 September

Mar, 2018 Richard Saivetz 69’ Lecture Series in Architecture, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Oct, 2017 12th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, “Work different for different work: changing the way we collaborate to achieve artfulness in the façade,” Bern, Switzerland, 2 October

Feb, 2017 Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Lecture Series, Santa Barbara, 9 February

Oct, 2016 Façade Tectonics 2016 World Congress, “Work Different for Different Work: Changing the way we collaborate to achieve artfulness in the façade,” Los Angeles, 10 October

Oct, 2016 Pacific Design Center, Fall Market 2016, Minimalism/Maximalism: An Exploration, Los Angeles, 6 October

Apr, 2016 Commemoration as Public Art, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA, Sponsored by The City of Glendale, 30 April

Jan, 2016 Facades+ Conference on High-Performance Building Enclosures, “Process Shaping Design: Design, Digital fabrication and Delivery” presented by The Architect’s Newspaper, Los Angeles, 29 January

Oct, 2015 AIA Colorado 2015 Practice and Design Conference, Keystone, CO

Apr, 2015 Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania

Apr, 2015 GIS Architecture Conference, Order of Romanian Architects, Bucharest, Romania, Sponsored by the United States Department of State

Mar, 2015 Pacific Design Center, West Week: KEYNOTE, Presented by the Los Angeles Institute of Architects & PDC

Jan, 2015 The Architecture + Design Museum and the LA Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Lecture Series

Dec, 2014 Louisiana Tech University, School of Architecture Lecture Series, Ruston, Louisiana

Jun, 2014 National AIA Convention, Chicago: Institute Honor Award, Holocaust Museum (Hagy Belzberg), Link to Video Stream

Nov, 2013 Tucson Art Museum, American Institute of Architects Lecture Series, Tucson, AZ

Feb, 2013 Palm Springs Museum of Art, Annenberg Theater, “Desert Installations, Salsa Dancing and the Architecture of Tragedy”, Modernism Week Lecture Series.

Oct, 2012 University of Cincinnati,,”Mitigating Complexity”,Cincinnati, Ohio

Apr, 2012 UCLA: “Holo-Monument-Caust”,Peter Eisenman’s Deconstructivist Confrontation with the Holocaust”, Hagy Belzberg Moderator

Nov, 2011 Bellevue College, Seattle, WA

Jun, 2011 Dwell on Design, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA

Feb, 2010 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

May, 2008 Skidmore Owings & Merrill, New York, NY, Invited Lecturer

Mar, 2008 The New Museum, New York ,The Architectural League of New York “Emerging Voices” lecture series.

Mar, 2008 National Building Museum / Washington, DC, The Architectural League of New York “Emerging Voices” lecture series

Feb, 2007 Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Nov, 2006 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (audio)

Jul, 2006 American Institute of Architects National Convention, Los Angeles, CA (podcast)

Dec, 2004 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

May, 2003 Monterey Design Conference, Emerging Talent Speaker, Monterey, CA

Jun, 2002 Sarasota Design Conference, Sarasota, FL

Apr, 2001 California State Polytechnic University

Feb, 1999 University of California Berkeley

Sep, 1998 University of New Mexico

Apr, 1997 Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Planning

Invited Design Awards Juror

Nov, 2018 USGBC-LA’s 8th Annual Sustainable Innovation Awards (Juror: Hagy Belzberg)

Jul, 2017 American Institute of Architects Potomac Valley Excellence in Design Awards (Juror: Hagy Belzberg)

Apr, 2017 Interior Design and ICFF NYCxDESIGN Awards (Juror: Hagy Belzberg)

Mar, 2017 American Institute of Architects New York Design Awards (Juror: Hagy Belzberg)

Oct, 2016 American Institute of Architects National Honors Award for Interior Architecture (Jury Chair: Hagy Belzberg)

Oct, 2015 American Institute of Architects Colorado Design Awards (Jury Chair: Hagy Belzberg)

May, 2009 American Institute of Architects San Diego Design Awards (Juror: Hagy Belzberg)

Apr, 2006 American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Restaurant Design Awards (Juror: Hagy Belzberg)

Elected / Appointed Positions

2001 – 2002 Director: American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Chapter

2000 – 2001 Director: American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Chapter