Paul Goldberger - Selected Lectures

Selected Lectures

• “Density and the Future of Reston,” Reston, Virginia, Community Center, October 5, 2010
• “Why Architecture Matters,” Cleveland Museum of Art, September 15, 2010
• “Architecture, Sacred Space and the Challenge of the Modern,” Chautauqua Institution, August 12, 2010
• “Architecture and New Haven,” International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, June 24, 2010
• “Preservation: Where Do We Go From Here?” keynote address, Indiana State Preservation Conference, April 8, 2010
• “Forty-five Years of Landmarks in New York,” Historic Landmarks Preservation Center, April 19, 2010
• “Classicism, Modernism and the Idea of Invention,” University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, February 1, 2010
• “Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Life of an Architecture Critic in New York,” Colony Club, January 20, 2010
• “Designing Transit Cities,” keynote address, transit planning conference, Toronto, November 20, 2009
• “Henry Hobson Richardson and the Making of Modern Sacred Space,” Trinity Church, Boston, November 18, 2009
• “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom and the Making of a Modern Synagogue,” at 50th anniversary observance, November 15, 2009
• “Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin, and the Future of a Legacy,” Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Guggenheim Museum, June 17, 2009
• “Frank Lloyd Wright, Sacred Space, and the Challenge of the Modern: Remarks on the Centennial of Unity Temple”, March 26, 2009
• “Thoughts on Sustainable Design,” California Academy of Science, March 12, 2009
• “Revisiting Learning from Las Vegas,” L’Enfant Lecture, National Building Museum, December 2, 2008
• “Portland and the Challenge of Making a City in the Twenty-first Century,” University of Oregon, November 20, 2008
• “Preservation Is Not Just About the Past,” National Trust for Historic Preservation conference, Tulsa, October 23, 2008
• “Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture,” closing remarks delivered at symposium on sacred architecture, co-sponsored by Yale School of Architecture and Yale Divinity School, October 29, 2008
• “Forty Years of Chicago Landmarks,” Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Chicago Public Library, May 15, 2008
• “Cities, Planning and Las Vegas,” keynote address, American Planning Association, Las Vegas, May 1, 2008
• “On Architecture, Public Schools, and the Making of Community,” School Building Expo, Schaumburg, Illinois, April 3, 2008
• “Is There a Jewish Architecture?” keynote address, Council of American Jewish Museums, Spertus Institute, Chicago, January 27, 2008
• “Cities, Time and Architecture,” Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, December 13, 2007
• “Architecture, Bowdoin, and the Art Museum in the Twenty-first Century,” Dedication Address, Walker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, October 12, 2007
• “Toronto, the Waterfront, and the Urban Future,” address to annual meeting, Waterfront Toronto, October 2, 2007
• “Cities, Place and Cyberspace: Sustainability and Meaning in the Urban Environment,” University of Calgary, September 26, 2007
• “Nantucket, Preservation, and the Future,” Nantucket Preservation Trust, July 27, 2007
• “Remarks on the Opening of the Glass House,” National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Canaan, Connecticut, June 21, 2007
• “Architecture, Museums and Authenticity,” Art Institute of Chicago, April 28, 2007
• “On Philip Johnson,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, April 23, 2007
• “Cities, Place and Cyberspace: Reshaping Rochester and the Public Realm,” Rochester Community Design Center, April 16, 2007
• “Does Architecture Matter? Thoughts on Building, Design, and the Quality of Life,” Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, April 5, 2007
• “Remarks on the GSA Design Excellence Program,” GSA Design Awards, Washington, March 29, 2007
• “Yale and the Promise of the Modern,” address on the reopening of the Yale University Art Gallery, December 9. 2006
• “Philip Johnson and the Glass House,” address to Board of Trustees, National Trust for Historic Preservation, May 20, 2006
• “Ground Zero, Five Years Later,” Johns Hopkins University, April 18, 2006
• “Design, Education, and Social Responsibility,” address delivered at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 15–16, 2005
• “Landmarks Preservation at Forty,” The New School, New York City, April 26, 2005
• “Do Art and Architecture Matter? Thoughts on Buildings, Social Responsibility, and the World After September 11,” Windmueller Lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, November 10, 2004
• “The Aims of Education,” New School Convocation, September 9, 2004
• “Hartford and the Public Realm,” address to Connecticut, Humanities Council, Simsbury, April 13, 2004
• “Architecture Criticism: Does it Matter?” Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 12, 2003
• “Architecture, the Morgan Library, and the Twenty-first Century,” Morgan Library, New York, November 14, 2003
• “Toshiko Mori/Frank Lloyd Wright,” Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, November 7, 2003
• “Reflections on the Ancient/Modern Quarrel,” Princeton University, October 29, 2003
• “After the World Trade Center: The Struggle to Make a City for Our Time,” Poynter Lecture, Yale University, November 11, 2002
• “The Trauma of Rebuilding,” keynote address to Regional Plan Association Regional Assembly, April 26, 2002
• Mary and Jim Semans Lecture (untitled), Duke University Museum of Art, March 1, 2002
• “Tadao Ando,” St. Louis Museum of Art, October 15, 2001
• "New York and the New Urbanism,” address to Congress for the New Urbanism, June 9, 2001
• “The Design Professions and the Media,” Loeb Fellowship Symposium, Harvard University, April 27, 2001
• “Thoughts On the Centennial of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Art and Craft of the Machine’ Lecture,” Hull House Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, March 1, 2001
• “Cities, Place and Cyberspace,” University of California, Berkeley, February 1, 2001
• “Is There A Future for Cities?” Wassong Lecture, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, October 30, 2000
• Keynote address, American Society of Interior Designers Conference, Corning New York, September 22, 2000
• “Zoning and Architecture,” symposium on revised New York City zoning, Newman Institute, Baruch College, City University of New York, September 15, 2000
• “The Urban Impulse,” Abcoa Partnership for Community, Abcoa, Florida, April 18, 2000
• “Design Lessons from the Late Twentieth Century,” Seattle Design Center, March 2, 2000
• “Architecture at the End of the Twentieth Century,” keynote address, American Institute of Architects conference, Boulder, Colorado, November 10, 1999
• “The Architecture of a Campus,” Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, September 24, 1999
• “Architecture, Technology and Community at the End of the Twentieth Century,” Rhodes College, Memphis, September 23, 1999
• “Is There Still a Reason for Cities?” Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum, New York University, April 12, 1999
• “Desert Cities,” Arizona State University, Phoenix, February 19, 1999
• “Technology, Community, and Common Ground,” Columbia University School of Social Work, June 13, 1998
• “The Future of Cuban Cities,” Florida International University, Miami, Florida, June 6, 1998
• “Does Design Matter? Thoughts on College Commencement,” Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, May 14, 1998
• “Charleston: In Search of Authenticity,” Historic Charleston Foundation, November 7, 1997
• “Who Needs Cities? Urban Life and the Promise of Community,” Chautauqua Institution, July 24, 1997
• “Organizational Futures by Design,” symposium speaker, Haas School of Business, University of California, June 20–21, 1997
• “Workplace Productivity, Cybertechnology, and Aesthetics,” International Design Congress, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, May 21, 1997
• “Newport: Past and Future,” Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island, May 29, 1997
• “Tribalization vs. Homogenization: Less Community or Different Community?” Forbes Forum on Management and Policy, Palm Beach, Florida, March 21, 1997
• “From Teapots to Skyscrapers: The Pursuit of the Fashionable Object,” design symposium, D & D Building, New York, October 9, 1996
• “The Power of the Past: Can Preservation Save Communities?” Cornerstones, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 17, 1996
• American Academy of Psychoanalysis, “Psychoanalytic Reflections Upon Imagery and Architecture,” symposium discussant in session on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, May 4, 1996
• “Post-modernism and its Relationship to Architecture,” Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1996
• Lecture (untitled), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., March 7, 1996
• “Thoughts on Social Responsibility, Creativity, and Frank Lloyd Wright,” Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, Oak Park, Illinois, February 28, 1996
• “On I.M. Pei,” Municipal Art Society, New York City, February 27, 1996
• “The City and the Waterfront in a Post-Urban Age,” Cleveland Museum of Art, November 8, 1995
• McDermott Lecture (untitled) University of Dallas, November 2, 1995
• “Asian Cities and Western Cities at the End of the Twentieth Century,” World Architecture Triennale, Nara, Japan, May 20, 1995
• “Is There Still a Reason for Cities?” National Humanities Center, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, April 22, 1995
• “Architecture and Social Responsibility,” University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, November 2, 1994
• “Architecture, Authenticity, and the Urban Impulse,” YKK Forum, Osaka, Japan, June 30, 1994
• “Architecture as a Reflection of Public Policy and Social Responsibility,” Convocation Speaker, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, January 13, 1994
• Lecture, Ylvisaker Symposium, Ford Foundation, New York, November 8, 1993
• “Creating and Re-creating the City,” St. John’s University, Queens, New York, March 27, 1993
• “Museums and Architecture,” symposium speaker, Cincinnati Museum of Art, January 29, 1993
• “Chicago Architecture,” as visiting fellow, University of Chicago, Spring 1992
• “On Columbus, Indiana,” keynote address to meeting of American Institute of Architects, Columbus, Indiana, October 25, 1991
• Lecture (untitled), Washington University, St. Louis, March 27, 1991
• Lecture (untitled), Chicago Historical Society, March 21, 1991
• Lecture (untitled) St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, February 4, 1991
• “On Carmel and the Preservation of Place,” Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Carmel, California, October 20, 1990
• “Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim,” University of California at Los Angeles School of Architecture, November 16, 1989
• “Architecture, Real Estate, and the City,” keynote address to Goldman Sachs real estate investment conference, June 7, 1989
• “Teaching About Architecture,” National Art Education Association, Washington, D.C., April 12, 1989
• “Buildings Against Cities: The Making of Places,” Behrend Lecture, Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 11, 1988
• “Buildings Versus Cities: The Struggle for a Sense of Place,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, May 2, 1988
• Keynote speaker, “Remaking Cities” conference, American Institute of Architects, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2–5, 1988
• “The Art In Structures” symposium speaker, Duke University School of Engineering Durham, North Carolina, January 28, 1988
• “Architecture, History and Confusion,” Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, September 30, 1987
• Lecture (untitled) for opening of Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, October 18, 1985