139th Annual Meeting

The Architectural League cordially invites its members and friends to its 139th Annual Meeting.

June 30, 2020
7:00 p.m.

The Architectural League cordially invites its members and friends to its 139th Annual Meeting, which will take place on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, online. The official election of Officers and Directors and reports on recent and forthcoming League programs and projects will precede the second Annual Meeting Address. The 2020 address, “It’s About Time,” will be delivered by Sarah Whiting, Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. 

Schedule
7 p.m. Remarks and Election of Officers and Directors, Paul Lewis, President, The Architectural League and Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, The Architectural League
7:15 p.m. Annual Meeting Address, “It’s About Time,” Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, GSD, Harvard University

About the Annual Election of Officers and Directors
League members in good standing may vote. For more information on this year’s election, click here.

About the Annual Meeting Address
The Annual Meeting Address is a commissioned lecture by a leading figure in architectural practice, education, or theory who brings a distinctive point of view to the question of what can—and should—animate architectural discourse and production now.

About Sarah Whiting
Sarah M. Whiting is Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Whiting served as Dean of Rice University’s School of Architecture from 2010 to 2019 and has taught at Princeton University, the University of Kentucky, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Florida. She is a design principal and co-founder of WW Architecture. Whiting’s research is broadly interdisciplinary, with the built environment at its core.  An expert in architectural theory and urbanism, she has particular interests in architecture’s relationship with politics, economics, and society and how the built environment shapes the nature of public life. Her work has been published in leading journals and collections, and she is the founding editor of Point, a book series aimed at shaping contemporary discussions in architecture and urbanism. Dean Whiting received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale, her Master of Architecture from Princeton University, and her Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture from MIT.