WEATHERS/Sean Lally lecture

Sean Lally discusses the overlap of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

September 3, 2012

Recorded on June 21, 2012.

The League Prize, an annual competition that asks young designers to respond to a given theme, has marked an important milestone in many architects’ careers since it was established in 1981. Winners showcase their work through a lecture series and exhibition.

WEATHERS/Sean Lally won a 2012 award.

Sean Lally, who founded WEATHERS/Sean Lally in 2005, is currently based in Chicago. He explores the overlap of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

Lally was the co-editor of Routledge’s 2007 Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space and guest edited an AD Journal issue entitled “Energies: New Material Boundaries.” His book The Air on Other Planets will be published in 2013.

Lally received the 2011–2012 Rome Prize in landscape architecture.

He is an Assistant Professor at the UIC School of Architecture, Chicago. He received his B.S. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his M.Arch from the University of California, Los Angeles.