The 2008 Ong Siew May Distinguished Lecture Series brings preeminent speakers from around the world to the Department of Architecture to lecture on topics related to this year’s thematic: “Sustain/Ability”

What is sustainability?
What are we sustaining?
Who is being sustained?
Can architecture be sustainable?

Probing into nature, density, tectonics, environment, growth, urbanism, and craft, architecture’s complex relationship with its ability to sustain is brought to bear. Four distinct lectures will open up, challenge, and enrich the way we think through sustainability, to challenge our assumptions of architecture and its seeming ability to change our environment. Come join us while we look closer, think more carefully, and ask even more questions.