The 2025 Sciame Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York presents the spring 2025 Sciame Lecture Series, Still Making Space for Gender, featuring trailblazing women and LGBTQIA+ design practitioners, scholars and activists in discussion about the built environment. All lectures are in-person, free, and held at 5:30 pm at the Spitzer School of Architecture in Room 107, the Sciame Auditorium, 141 Convent Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10031.
In the series of lectures, a wide range of topics from aesthetics to health and wellbeing, and from partying to revolution, are discussed by architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who insist that gender must remain in sharp focus if we are to shape equitable and just built environments. Buildings, cities, and landscapes are not only where battles over gender unfurl, but these spaces also foster identities and incite change.
While the discourse framing gender morphs and gender identities broadens and becomes more intersectional, the predicament remains the same: the exploitation of and fight for equal rights and equity of opportunities at home and abroad. Achievements are hard-won. In the face of misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and other ingrained expressions of exclusion, they are even rolled back.
This Sciame lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74, CEO of Sciame Construction.
For live captioning, ASL interpretation, or access requests, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu .
Thursday, 02/06/2025 The Aesthetics of Being Sara Zewde
Monday, 02/10/2025 Building Belonging: Equity, Health and Wellbeing in Public Space Joel Sanders
Thursday, 02/20/2025 Lesbian Bars/Queer Parties: On How We Can Never Afford Them and Why We Need Them Anyway Jack Jen Gieseking
Thursday, 02/27/2025 Domestic Revolutions, Then and Now Dolores Hayden
Thursday, 03/13/2025 Rethinking Livability Aimi Hamraie Lewis Mumford Lecture
Thursday, 03/20/2025 Toward a Just Public Realm: Gender Equity in the Built Environment Chelina Odbert
Thursday, 04/03/2025 A Collaborative (Re)turn: Feminist Architectural Historians Join Forces and Get Things Done… Again Despina Stratigakos
Thursday, 04/10/2025 Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Ada – My Mother the Architect Yael Melamede, Mary McLeod