Dan Jonas Roche
Andrew Santa Lucia
Lane Rick
Aaron Cayer
In conversation with James Heard
“AMA” Ask Me Anything
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THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 12, 9:00PM ET
ON ZOOM
Dan Jonas Roche is news editor of The Architect’s Newspaper and part-time lecturer at The New School. His writing has been featured in eflux, Brooklyn Rail, The Architectural Review, Art of the Working Class, New York Review of Architecture, and other publications.
Andrew Santa Lucia is an architectural designer, theorist, and educator whose research and design practice are grounded in antifascist politics, mutual aid, and collective self-determination. He is co-author of Antifascist Architecture, which situates architecture within struggles against fascism and neoliberal capitalism, with a focus on contemporary utopianisms. His work explores how grassroots organizing, mutual aid networks, and community control can build collective power and advance alternative forms of social and spatial organization. Moving between architectural history and theory, design, graphic communication, and political organizing, Santa Lucia approaches research and practice as mutually informing processes. He is Associate Professor of Practice at Portland State University’s School of Architecture, where he teaches design and history, theory, and criticism. He also serves as Vice President of Communications and Public Relations for the PSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors. He was born and raised in Miami-Dade county.
Lane Rick is an architect, illustrator, and educator based in New York City. She is co-founder of Office of Things, a collaborative architecture and design studio exploring perception, material, and movement through installations and spatial interventions. She teaches architecture at City College New York and the University of Pennsylvania. Alongside her architectural practice, her drawings use detail, erasure, and layering to explore moments of engagement between people and space. She recently illustrated Antifascist Architecture.
Aaron Cayer is a Los Angeles-based historian, writer, and professor of architecture. He is currently an Associate Professor at Cal Poly Pomona and is the Co-President of the Board of Directors of the Architecture Lobby. His first book, Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire was published by UC Press in 2025. In it, he traces the rise of US-based architecture and engineering corporations, such as AECOM, as well as their impact on professions and politics after World War II.
James Heard is a PhD Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP and a licensed architect in California. His most recent work includes “Our best organizer!,” an essay for the Avery Review on the continuing relevance of the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians co-authored with Joshua Barnett, Adare Brown and Jack Rusk; and Stull & Lee: Black Architecture Vision for an Infrastructural City, an exhibit on how the work of architecture firm Stull & Lee has shaped the city of Boston, prepared in collaboration with Gabriel Cira and Julian Phillips.
This “Ask Me Anything” event will be a conversation about research and writing practices that examine alternative narratives and critique current dominant systems of architectural practice.
⇨ What shapes academic research and how do individuals or institutions determine which questions about architectural history, theory or practice to pursue?
⇨ How can architectural history and theory move beyond critique to influence models of alternative forms of practice and production?
⇨ What can architectural workers learn from higher education organizing to build collective power across the discipline?
