The Gibbs College of Architecture is excited to announce this spring’s Goff Lecture Series. This lecture series was made possible with support from the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture.
Date – February 19th, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location – Physical Sciences Center, Room 201
Jack DeBartolo 3, FAIA, is an architect known for his passion for bringing significance and order into daily human experiences through innovation in materials, creative shaping of space, and powerful use of light. He received his initial training in architecture at the University of Arizona in 1992, followed by graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. DeBartolo joined his father to form the studio of debartolo architects in 1996. He was licensed in 1999 and was awarded the AIA Arizona Architects Medal in 2013, and received his AIA Fellowship in 2016. Leading his studio of designers and architects, DeBartolo focuses on building well-tuned, highly crafted architecture specific to place, responsive to function, and sensitive to culture. The studio was named the 2012 AIA ARIZONA Firm of the Year and has developed a diverse portfolio including residential projects, coffee and bicycle shops, higher education facilities, major church campuses, solar shade pavilions, and automotive museums.
Date – March 5th, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location – Nielsen Hall, Room 170
Simon Allford, executive director and head of design studio of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), engages in the broader architectural discussion as a writer, critic, teacher, judge of competitions, frequent lecturer, examiner, advisor and commentator. Allford is a Trustee of the London School of Architecture and has been chairman of the Architecture Foundation, a trustee of the Architecture Association Foundation, and a visiting professor at The Bartlett and Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has also been Vice President for Education at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and a Chair of Design Review at the former Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. He was President of the RIBA from 2021 to 2023, and continues to serve as a member of the Institute’s Board and as an RIBA Awards judge.
Date – March 26th, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location – Nielsen Hall, Room 170
Nathalie Miebach is a sculptor who explores the intersection of art and science by translating scientific data related to meteorology, ecology and oceanography into woven sculptures and musical scores/ performances. Miebach’s main method of data translation is basket weaving, which functions as a simple, tactile grid through which to interpret data into 3D space. Central to this work is her desire to explore the role visual and musical aesthetics play in the translation and understanding of complex scientific systems, such as weather.
Date – April 7th, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location – George Lynn Cross Hall, Room 123/128
Kiara Gilmore is an Associate Architect as well as the Director of Emerging Professionals at modus studio. Kiara grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, in a home that was built in the 1800s. It was there that she became fascinated with how architecture and design were thought about. Kiara graduated from the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design and began working at Modus Studio. She has used her energy and talent to continue to transform the built world; a world where every individual consciously and unconsciously experiences a design at its highest, most innovative form.
Associate Professors Lee Fithian, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Pober have published a chapter in the recently released New Perspectives in Indoor Air Quality, published by Elsevier. Their contribution, titled “Chapter 16 – Architecture and the Challenges of Indoor Air Quality,” examines the relationship between architecture and indoor air quality.
Dr. Ladan Mozaffarian, Assistant Professor of Regional and City Planning, has been selected to serve as Co-Chair of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Planners of Color Interest Group (POCIG) for the 2025–2027 term.
The Gibbs College of Architecture is proud to recognize Tahsin Tabassum, a recent graduate of the college’s Master of Regional and City Planning program and current doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine, for receiving the prestigious 2024–2025 American Planning Association (APA) Outstanding Student Award.
