Extreme Environments: Design for Unfamiliar Terrain

Craig Hodgetts, a UCLA architecture and urban design professor and recipient of the Gold Medal Award from the American Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, will lead a panel discussion on exploring new frontiers for architecture in extreme environments such as the Arctic, the desert and outer space. The panel will include Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, a former astrobiologist and director of flights at Zero Gravity, and Christopher Ferguson, a retired U.S. Navy captain, former NASA astronaut and director of commercial crew interface for Boeing's space exploration division. http://www.aud.ucla.edu/extreme-ideas - RELATED EVENTS:

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