
For over 30 years, we've had the privilege of hosting a diverse array of world-class designers, artists, and thought leaders who have shared their insights, experiences, and innovative ideas with our community.
Comprehensive List of Visiting Speakers:
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Aaron Betsky / Architectural curator, writer, critic / The Netherlands
Ackermann & Raff / Architect / Germany
Aesthetic Apparatus / Graphic Designers / Minnesota
Alex Krieger / Urban Planner / Massachusetts
Amy Knoles / Performance Artist / California
Ana Dzokic & Marc Neelen of STEALTH.unlimited / Architect / Rotterdam & Belgrade
Ana Rewakowicz / Artist / Montreal
Andy Goldsworthy / Environmental Artist / Britain
Angelo Bucci / Architect / Brazil
Antoine Predock / Architect / New Mexico
Antony Gormley / Artist / London
The Art Guys / Art Collective / Texas
Asymptote Architecture / Architect / New York
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Ball-Nogues Studio / Integrated Design / Los Angeles
Barry Bergdoll / Curator, MOMA / New York
Ben Rubin / Multimedia Artist / New York City
Ben Waechter / Architect, Portland
Bernard Khoury / Architect / Beirut
Bill Posters / Hacktivist & Street Artist / London
Biotope / Architecture / Norway
Brendan Dawes / Data & Technology Artist / United Kingdom
Brian MacKay-Lyons / Architect / Canada
Bryan C. Lee, Jr. / Designer, Design Justice Advocate / New Orleans
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California E.A.R. Unit / Performance Artist / Los Angeles
Cameron McNall / Multimedia Designer / Los Angeles
Cameron Sinclair / Activist / San Francisco
Candy Chang / Artist / Ohio
Carlo Ratti / Landscape & Urbanism Design / Massachusetts
Carlos Zamora / Brand Designer, Illustrator / St. Louis
Carol Johnson / Landscape Architect / Boston
Carson Chan / Architect & Design Curator, MoMA / New York
Casagrande & Rintala / Architect / Finland
Cas Holman / Toy Designer / Rhode Island
Casper Mork Ulnes / Architect / San Francisco & Oslo
Catherine Griffiths / Graphic Designer / New Zealand
Charles Anderson / Landscape Designer / Seattle
Chris Burden / Visual & Performance Artist / California
Chris Drury / Land Artist / UK
Chris Reed / Landscape Architect / Boston
Christopher Sharples / Architect / New York
Claesson Koivisto Rune / Architect / Sweden
Cornelia Oberlander / Landscape Architect / Canada
Craig Hodgetts & Ming Fung / Architects / Los Angeles
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Dave Ellis / Graphic Design / London
Dave Pigram, supermanoeuvre / Architect & Innovator / Sydney
David Adjaye / Architect / London
David Buckland / Artist / England
David Chipperfield / Architect / London
David Garcia, MAP Architects / Architect, Educator & Researcher / Copenhagen
David Ireland / Artist / San Francisco
Diavolo Dance Theater / Architecture in Motion / Los Angeles
Dissing & Weitling / Architect / Denmark
Duffy / Graphic Designers / Minneapolis
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Ed Crittenden / Architect / Anchorage
Ed Fella / Graphic Designer / California
Einar Jarmund / Architect / Oslo
Ellen Lupton / Graphic Designer, Typographer, Educator, Author / Baltimore
Eric Owen Moss / Architect / Los Angeles
Erin E. Moore / Architect / Eugene, Oregon
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Faythe Levine / Artist, Filmmaker & Author / Milwaukee
Fernau & Hartman / Architect / Berkeley
Florian Maurer / Architect / Canada
Frank Barkow / Architect / Berlin
Fritz Haeg / Eco-Activist / Los Angeles
Fritz Mesenbrink (OMFG) / Brand Designer / Portland
Frog / Product Design, UX/UI / San Francisco
Frost Produkt / Product Design / Oslo
Fuhrimann Hächler / Architect / Zurich
Futurefarmers / Artist & Designer / San Francisco
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George Kunihiro / Architect / Japan
Glenn Murcutt / Architect / Australia
Goro Hirata / Artist / Japan
Günther Vogt / Landscape Architect / Zurich
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Hamish Fulton / Photographer, Writer, & Artist / Britain
Harri Koskinen / Industrial Design / Helsinki
Hasan Elahi / Artist / Washington D.C.
Holt Hinshaw Jones / Architect / San Francisco
Hugh Broughton / Architect / London
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Iwamotoscott, Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott / Architect / San Francisco
Iwan Baan / Photographer / Nomadic
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Jakob Trollback / Graphic Designer / New York
James Burnett / Landscape Architect /Houston
James Carpenter / Architect / New York
James Cutler / Architect / Washington
James Turell / Environmental Artist / Flagstaff
James Victore / Graphic Designer / New York
James Wines / SITE / New York
Jan Henriksson / Architect & Professor / Sweden
Jennifer Siegal / Architect / California
Jennifer Sterling / Graphic Designer / New York
Jenny Holzer / Visual Artist / New York
Jerry van Eyck (!melk) / Landscape Designer / New York
Jessica Hische / Letterer & Illustrator / San Francisco
Jessica Stockholder / Visual Artist / Chicago
Jet Construction/ Architect & Installation Artist / Seattle
Joe Gerhardt (Semiconducter) / Filmmaker & Artist / United Kingdom
Joel Salatin / Farmer / Virginia
Joep Van Lieshout / Architect, Designer & Artist / Rotterdam
John Patkau / Architect / Vancouver
Judith Clark & Adam Phillips / Fashion & Psychoanalyst Author / London
Juhani Pallasmaa / Architect / Finland
Julie Bargmann / Landscape Architect / Virginia
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Karen Finley / Performance Artist / New York
Karim Rashid / Product Design / New York
Kathryn Gustafson / Landscape Architect / France
Klein Dytham / Architect / Japan
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Lateral Office / Architect / Toronto
Lava (Hans Wolbers) / Graphic Designer / Amsterdam
Lead Pencil Studio / Art & Architecture / Seattle
Lincoln Shatz / New Media Artist / Chicago
LOT-EK / Architects / New York
Lucy Lippard / Cultural Critic / New Mexico
LUST / Multidisciplinary Graphic Design / Netherlands
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Mads Hagstrom / Graphic & Product Designer / Oslo
Marian Bantjes / Graphic Design / Canada
Marlon Blackwell / Architect / Arkansas
Mark Fox / Artist / New York
Marko Peljhan / Communications & Digital Media Artist / Santa Barbara
Mary-Ann Ray / Architect / Los Angeles
Mary Mattingly / Visual Artist / New York
Mary Miss / Visual Artist / New York
MASS Ensemble / Musicians, Dancers & Visual Artists / Chicago
Matthias Loebermann / Architect / Nuremberg, Germany
Matthew Burtner, Ecosono / Composer & Eco-Acoustician / Virginia
Maura Rockcastle & Ross Altheimer, Ten x Ten Studio / Landscape Architects / Minneapolis
Mehmet Sander / Performance Artist / Los Angeles
Merrill Elam / Architect / Atlanta
Michael Ford / Hip Hop Architect / Madison, WI
Michael Murphy (MASS Design Group) / Architecture / Boston
Miriam Shevland / Landscape Architect / Tasmania
Moriyama & Teshima / Architect / Toronto
MY Studio/Howeler + Yoon Architecture / Architect / Massachusetts
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Nader Tehrani of Office dA / Architect & Designer / Boston
Ned Vaivoda / Architect / Portland
Neil Durbach / Architect / Sydney
Nervous Systems / Design Studio / Boston
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Olson Kundig / Architect / Seattle
Omar Gandhi / Architect / Toronto & Halifax
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Perimetre-Flux / Designer / San Francisco
Peter Cardew / Architect / Vancouver
Peter Eisenman / Architect / New York
Peter Zumthor / Architect / Switzerland
Pezo von Ellrichshausen / Architect / Chile
Pierre Thibault / Architect / Canada
PK arkitektar / Architect / Reykjavik
Plasma Studio / Architect / London
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R & SIE / Architect / Paris
Rachel Perry Welty / Artist / Boston
Rebar (Blaine Merker & Adam Green) / Artist / San Francisco
Reed Kroloff / Architect, Designer, Editor, Educator / Michigan
Reiulf Ramstad / Architect / Oslo
Richard Horden / Architect / London
Rick Joy / Architect / Arizona
Rinde Eckert / Performance Artist / Los Angeles
Robert France / Landscape Planner / Boston
Robert Magne / Architect / Montreal
Robert Murase / Landscape Architect / Oregon
Robert Wong / Chief Creative Officer, Google Creative Labs / New York
Rok Oman, OFIS Architecture / Architect / Slovenia
Ronald Rael / Designer, Activist, Architect, Author / California
Rosan Bosch / Artist, Designer, Play Consultant / Copenhagen
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Scott & Scott / Architect / Vancouver
Shawn Skabelund / Sculptor / Arizona
Shigeru Ban / Architect / Japan
Shim & Sutcliffe / Architect / Canada
SITU Studio / Architect / New York
Skylar Tibbits, MIT Self-Assembly Lab / Designer & Computer Scientist / Massachusetts
Solid Objectives / Architect / New York
Spurse (Iain Kerr & Petia Morozov) / Design Consultancy / New Jersey
Stanley Saitowitz / Architect / San Francisco
Stefan Sagmeister / Graphic Designer / New York
Stefan Sjöberg / Architect / Sweden
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir / Fashion Designer / Reykjavik
Steve Badanes / Designer Builder / New Jersey
Steven Erlich / Architect / California
Strong Towns, Charles Marohn / Civil Engineer, Land Use Planner, Activist, Author / Minnesota
Studio Granda / Architect / Iceland
Supermachine / Multi-Disciplinary Design / Thailand
Susan Joy Share / Artist / Alaska + New York
Synthesis Design & Architecture (Alvin Huang) / Architect & Educator / Los Angeles
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Tezuka / Architect / Tokyo
Thom Mayne / Architect / Los Angeles
Tim Eliassen / Product Designer / Massachusetts
Tod Williams & Billie Tsien / Architects / New York
Tom Henaghan / Art Critic / Sydney Australia
Tucker Viemeister / Industrial Designer / New York
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Vincent James / Architect / Minnesota
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Wade And Leta / Branding, Experiential, Photography, Design / New York
Wendell Burnette / Architect / Phoenix|Werner Sobek / Structural Engineer / Stuttgart Germany
Will Bruder / Architect / Phoenix
William Turnbull / Architect / San Francisco
Wolfgang Buttress / Artist / Nottingham
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XSIGHT! / Performance Group / Chicago
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Yves Behar / Product & Industrial Designer / San Francisco
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5468796 (Johanna Hurme & Sasa Radulovic) / Architect / Winnipeg