The Keating Visiting Architect Program
About
The Keating Visiting Architect Program, established in 2024 through the generous support of the Keating family, is designed to foster new connections between architecture students and leading professionals. Through this program, students will have the opportunity to engage with a visiting architect in various settings, both inside and outside the classroom. This initiative aims to enhance students’ academic experience at Barnard College and provide valuable insights into the contemporary practice of architecture.
The 2024 Keating Visiting Architect Program with Jeffrey Mansfield
The Barnard Architecture Department is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Mansfield will be the 2024 Keating Visiting Architect.
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.
As the 2024 Keating Visiting Architect, Mansfield will lead two workshops focused on the intersection of disability, education, and space for architecture majors during the fall 2024 semester. In the spring, Mansfield will continue his engagement by leading a visit to Gallaudet University for students in the Spring 2025 course taught by Ignacio Galán, Disability and Architecture, and will conclude by delivering a public lecture at Barnard College in March 2025.
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About Barnard and Columbia Architecture:
The Barnard College 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 annual program is organized by the Barnard Architecture Department and has been made possible through the generous funding of the Keating Family.