The UNM School of Architecture + Planning hosts the final program for its Fall 2023 Lecture Series featuring Chris Cornelius, ASCA Fellows Lecturer, on Monday, Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the Garcia Honda Auditorium.
This event is free and open to the public. It will be accessible via Zoom:
Topic: ASCA Fellows Lecture: Chris Cornelius
Time: Nov 6, 5:30 p.m. Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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https://unm.zoom.us/j/92725196933
Meeting ID: 927 2519 6933
About Chris Cornelius:
Chris Cornelius is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. He is the founding principal of studio:indigenous, a design practice serving Indigenous clients.
He served as a cultural consultant and design collaborator with Antoine Predock on the Indian Community School of Milwaukee (ICS). ICS won the AIA Design Excellence award from the Committee on Architecture for Education. Cornelius holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Cornelius was the Spring 2021, Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant professor at Yale University. He has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Virginia.
Cornelius is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Including the inaugural Miller Prize from Exhibit Columbus, a 2018 and 2022 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award, and an Artist residency from the National Museum of the American Indian. Cornelius has been exhibited widely including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Studio:indigenous received a 2021 Architect’s Newspaper Best Of Practice Award – Best Small Practice, Midwest.
Cornelius lives and works on the ancestral lands of the Pueblo, Tiwa and Piro people.