Michael Sorkin to Present 'Work on the City' Lecture on March 4

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The design for a seven star hotel in Tianjin, China. (Credit: Michael Sorkin, M.Okazaki, L.Yin, Y. Sun, R. Culligan, Q. Su)

Michael Sorkin will present a lecture titled “Work on the City” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City, a design practice focused on urbanism and green architecture. He is also president of Terreform, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and intervention in issues of urban morphology, sustainability and equity, and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York.

His books include Variations on A Theme Park, Exquisite Corpse, Local Code, Giving Ground, Wiggle, Some Assembly Required, Other Plans, The Next Jerusalem, After The Trade Center, Starting From Zero, Against the Wall, Indefensible Space, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan and All Over the Map.

This is the William F. Pendergrass Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates.