The 2024-2025 Keating Visiting Architect Lecture by Jeffrey Mansfield
As the 2024-2025 Keating Visiting Architect, Jeffrey Mansfield will deliver a public lecture on the intersection of disability, education, and space at Barnard College on March 26, 2025.
Date and Time: 6:00-8:00 PM, Wednesday, March 26th, 2025.
Location: 504, The Diana Center, Barnard College
Registration: Advance registration is required. Please register here before March 24, 2025.
Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a principal at MASS Design Group, where he works on a portfolio of projects that uplift the lived experience and cultural memory of the Deaf and Disability communities. For his work on The Architecture of Deafness, which traces the architectural history of the Deaf school as a typology located at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and power, Jeffrey was named a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, and an inaugural recipient of the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Disability Futures fellowship. Jeffrey co-authored The Architecture of Health and co-edited MASS Design Group's first Monograph, Justice is Beauty. Jeffrey was also the 2023 Lifchez Visiting Professor of Practice in Social Justice at the University of California-Berkeley and the 2023 Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. He has taught design studios at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Jeffrey received his A.B. in Architecture at Princeton University and M.Arch at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has been deaf since birth.
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About Barnard and Columbia Architecture
The Barnard Architecture Department is the home of undergraduate architecture at Columbia University. Students study with renowned faculty who are dedicated to the unique opportunities of teaching architecture within the liberal arts while they are pursuing research and creative practices of extraordinary breadth and depth. Alumni of our Department are leaders in the architecture profession, in academia, in related fields, and sometimes in fields very different from their undergraduate major. They are designers and activists using their unique education and skills to actively engage in shaping the world and imagining new futures.
Acknowledgements:
This program is organized by the Barnard Architecture Department and has been made possible through the generous funding of the Keating Family.
This event is coordinated with the book launch for Window Shopping with Helen Keller by David Serlin at Barnard College on Wednesday, March 27th at 10:10 AM. It is also coordinated with GSAPP’s Actioning Summit 7: How to Project Disability Forward, co-curated by Igancio Galan together with Andrés Jaque, Dean, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, on Thursday, March 27th at 6:30 PM.
ASL interpretation will be provided. Masks will be encouraged and provided. Please make any accommodation requests in the registration form.
