Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities

Each week this spring, two design groups, one from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and one from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), pair up to discuss architecture, urban design, and how design and policy can improve the built environment for all residents. (More information about this conversation series)

The March 22, 2022 edition features:

• Steve Ziger Ziger|Snead Architects (Baltimore)
• Jan Knikker MVRDV (Rotterdam)
• Moderator: Sinisha Brdar Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Host: Cristina Murphy Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center

TIME & REGISTRATION

12:00pm EDT Maryland time, which is 17.00 CET Netherlands time. Each speaker talks about their work, followed by panel discussion and Q&A.

Open to the public. Advance registration required.

The webinar will be conducted in English language.

AUDIENCE

The lecture is geared towards architects, developers, community organizers, social enterprises, city planners, policymakers, and professors and students of architecture and urban design.

AIA Continuing Education Credits: 1 LU

About the speakers

Steve Ziger Ziger|Snead Architects (MCA)

Steve Ziger is a founding partner of Ziger|Snead Architects where he is a hands-on Design Partner, ever present during the entire evolution of a project. Through dedication to a distilled design approach, focus on relationships, and active community engagement, the firm’s mission that great design can have a positive impact on our quality of life has resulted in transformative projects for many non-profits and institutions in Baltimore and beyond. Steve currently serves on the boards of the Baltimore Design School, Baltimore Community Foundation, and The William G. Baker Fund. His life-long passion for design excellence, appreciation of art, and commitment to the community inspire his colleagues, clients, and friends. His commitment to design excellence contributed to his elevation to the AIA College of Fellows in 2018.

Ziger|Snead website

Jan Knikker MVDRV

Jan Knikker is Partner and Director of Strategy at MVRDV. Jan Knikker joined MVRDV in 2008. Prior to this, Jan Knikker shaped OMA’s public image for nearly a decade, after having first began his career as a journalist. As Partner and Director of Strategy at MVRDV, Jan Knikker drives Business Development and Public Relations efforts, spearheading a large and dynamic studio that also includes the office’s visualization capacity. He further leads the office’s branding efforts, and MVRDV’s expansion into new markets, by supporting the office’s ambition to generate solutions to global challenges through a multifaceted approach to architecture and urbanism.

MVRDV website

Sinisha Brdar Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Sinisha Brdar is an architect, urban designer and professor at UQAM School of Design in Montreal. He holds degrees from the Université de Montréal and Harvard GSD, where he studied on a Fulbright Fellowship. Sinisha has worked with a range of architecture and urban design firms, including OMA and Maccreanor Lavington in Rotterdam. Residing at the intersection of urbanism and politics, his current research focuses on the emerging paradigms of light urbanism and the notion of urban catalyst.

Profile page - UQAM

About this webinar series

This webinar is one of a series of design conversations with Baltimore + Rotterdam architects and urban designers.

See other webinars in this series

Series is coordinated by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, with assistance from Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC).

Event Partners: AIA Baltimore ; Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB)