FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — On any given day architect, inventor and entrepreneur Darell Fields divides his time between his lab and showroom and a spacious studio where he critiques plans and models crafted by University of Arkansas architecture students. In addition to developing sleek modular housing, patenting new inventions and working with students, Fields finds time to edit Appx, a groundbreaking journal that examines racial issues in architecture and other creative disciplines.

Fields will focus on his design work in a lecture titled “Recent Concepts” that will take place at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, at the Arkansas Arts Center lecture hall.

“I will be discussing the conceptual origins for my L-E house and the House for Josephine Baker,” Fields said. These two projects represent the full range of Fields’ design invention, from a pragmatic scheme for prefabricated housing to theoretical work developed for the 2004 exhibition “Harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor” at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Fields’ lecture is part of an ongoing series co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas School of Architecture, the Arkansas Arts Center and the central Arkansas section of the American Institute of Architects. A 6 p.m. reception will precede the lecture.

Originally from Dallas, Texas, Fields received his Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in architecture from Harvard University and taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Northeastern University before joining the School of Architecture faculty in 2005. He has won awards in numerous national and international design competitions and has initiated and participated in projects in Dallas, New York, Boston and Tokyo. For more information on his prefabricated housing and Appx journal, visit Fields’ Web site.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Continuing Education Units will be awarded to design professionals.