The Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design is pleased to announce that distinguished Scottish architect Alan Dunlop is the 2009-2010 Regnier Visiting Chair of the Department of Architecture.

During the first of two periods in residence during the 2009-2010 academic year, Dunlop will present a public lecture entitled

Working Drawing

at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 11, 2009, in the Little Theatre of the K-State Student Union. The lecture is open to the public without charge.

Concentrating his teaching time in the graduate architectural design studios, Dunlop will be working particularly with the studio of Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates whose project is the design of a residential facility, based in Glasgow, Scotland, to serve multiple-sensory impaired young adults in making a transition from living with their families to a more independent way of life. He will also be joining in discussions of the graduate architectural studios taught by other architecture faculty members.

Alan Dunlop is a partner in Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects (gm+ad) based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and was educated in London and at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. He is a committed educator and is currently visiting Professor at Robert Gordon University, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen. He has taught in schools of Architecture in Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow and lectured internationally. Widely published in the architectural press and in national broadsheets, he is an established commentator on architecture, design and social issues on television and radio.

Dunlop is acknowledged as a gifted draughtsman, and his drawings have been exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and since 1996 at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 2008, his drawings were awarded the Royal Gold Medal in Architecture from the Royal Scottish Academy. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, the Lighthouse in Glasgow, in Europe and at the Venice Biennale.

The firm gm+ad is recognised for the innovative nature of its projects. In the twelve years that the partnership has been established it has won over thirty five national and international awards, including Europa Nostra; Royal Institute of British Architects Awards; the Scottish Design Awards: Grand Prix for Architecture; a Special Award from the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland; a British Construction Industry: Best Practice Award; a DesignShare Honor Award and two International Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.

Of special note is the firm’s recent design of the Hazelwood School in Glasgow for children that are deaf and blind. This multi-award winning design has seen wide publication including Architectural Record, http://archrecord.construction.com/schools/08_Extra_Sensory.asp

The work of the practice regularly features in the architectural press and other international publications and the partnership has published two monographs; Challenging Contextualism in 2001 and Curious Rationalism in 2006.

The Victor L. Regnier Visiting Faculty Chair in Architecture at Kansas State University, funded by the Victor and Helen Regnier Family Foundation of Mission, Kansas, was established in 2003 through the extraordinary generosity of his children, Victor A. Regnier, Robert D. Regnier, and Catherine M. Regnier, who sought to enrich the educational experience of Kansas State University architecture students by exposing them to the finest architects from around the world.

Attendance at any CAPD-sponsored lecture can be submitted as continuing education credit by design professionals by contacting Diane Potts.

For more information, contact:
Peter Magyar, 785.532.5953
Don Watts, 785.532.1128
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090