63rd House, Chicago IL, courtesy of Studio Gang

Cost

Free

Location

21C Museum Hotel

Program Overview

Weston Walker, AIA will discuss urban design, innovation, design + fabrication, materiality, and design legacy.

Lecture starts promptly at 6.

Presented by the AIA Cincinnati VISION program.

Keynote Speaker

Weston Walker, AIA
Design Principal, Partner
Studio Gang 

Architect Weston Walker is Design Principal and Partner in charge of Studio Gang’s New York office. In his nearly 15-year tenure at Studio Gang, he has designed projects across a wide range of scales and types – from cultural and educational institutions to complex civic buildings to residential towers. He led the design team for the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation – a major expansion of the American Museum of Natural History set to complete this year.

He is currently the serving as Design Principal for Harvard University’s first mass-timber building in Allston, the Shirley Chisholm community recreation center in Brooklyn, and high-rise residential towers in San Francisco and Toronto. Under his leadership, the Studio has completed a diverse portfolio of projects, including a new training facility for FDNY’s Rescue Company 2 in Brooklyn, a Neighborhood Activation Study to increase public safety through community design and problem-solving in New York City, and 11 Hoyt, which was recently awarded an Honor Designation for Architecture from AIANY.

Weston is a graduate of Yale University, where he received his Master of Architecture and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude for his thesis work exploring systems of perception and meaning in both musical and architectural spaces.