PROFESSOR JOEL LAMERE TAKES THE REINS AT U-SOA

AS THE NEW GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN ARCHITECTURE DIRECTOR

Professor Joel Lamere, the U-SoA’s new Graduate Programs in Architecture, received his Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before joining the U-SoA, he was Assistant Professor of Architectural Design and Homer A. Burnell Chair at MIT.

“Our approach is very consistent with the roadmap vision of lifelong learning at the U-SoA,” he said. “With the ecological, economic, technological, and social disruptions that will characterize the coming century – we have to prepare students for this uncertainty, not mere competency. This requires fostering many kinds of literacy and an expanded view of the field – preparing our graduates to be lifelong learners.”

Lamere emphasized that technological progress is not, in itself, enough to tackle the world’s many problems. Lamere believes that technology can foster more collaboration, which in turn can help with diverse community building, but for architecture to truly address issues of equity and inclusion, it must reconsider who it serves beyond its clients. “A more just architecture will need to commit to a broader constituency, and codify what qualifies as a public good in such a way that those interests cannot be ignored.” He added that U-SoA Graduate Programs in Architecture “have the distinct mission to prepare architects to be good in two senses: to be good at being architects, which means navigating rapid changes in the profession, but also good as citizens, focused on how we can be agents for positive change in the world.”

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