Baumer Lecture Series, Elisa Iturbe

Elisa Iturbe is assistant professor at The Cooper Union. Her research and writing are currently focused on the relationship between energy, power, and form. Iturbe also teaches courses on fossil capitalism and carbon modernity at the Yale School of Architecture and Cornell AAP. At Yale, she served as the coordinator of the dual-degree program between the School of Architecture and the School of the Environment. Her writings have been published in AA Files, Log, Perspecta, New York Review of Architecture, and Antagonismos. She guest-edited Log 47, titled “Overcoming Carbon Form” and co-wrote a book with Peter Eisenman titled Lateness. Iturbe is also co-founder of Outside Development, a design and research practice.

For spring 2023, the Baumer Lecture Series returns to Knowlton Hall’s Gui Auditorium for nine in-person lectures that engage ”Engaging the Commons.“ This semester, Knowlton invites scholars, practitioners, and designers to think about how the design professions’ participation in and with the dense social and political webs of the built environment and how active practices might engage these places, our “commons.”

The Baumer Lecture Series invites prominent researchers and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning to present their work and engage with Knowlton faculty and students.