Lecture: S,M,L,XL: Straight up the Middle

Sarah Whiting possesses an indefatigable curiosity about how individuals constitute a public and, more specifically, through what forms (architecture and urbanism) that public manifests itself and is, in turn, formed. Her teaching, writing, and practice focus on the politics and architectures of this public realm. In addition to her position as William Ward Watkin Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice, Whiting is a partner of the architecture office, WW, based in Houston, and is also an architectural critic. She is currently completing a book, Superblock City: Chicago’s Elastic Grid and is the founding editor of a new architectural book series with Princeton University Press, entitled POINT. Whiting received her B.A. from Yale, her M.Arch from Princeton and her Ph.D. from MIT. Before coming to Rice, Whiting taught at Princeton, Harvard, IIT, University of Kentucky, and University of Florida. Prior to founding WW, she worked with OMA in The Netherlands, where she was a principal designer on the Euralille project, and for Peter Eisenman in New York. Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd. USC School of Architecture