Aleksander Tamm-Seitz: Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture
Aleksander Tamm-Seitz will deliver the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
About Aleksander Tamm-Seitz
Aleksander Tamm-Seitz, AIA, NCARB, is an award-winning architect and urban designer at Morphosis Architects in Los Angeles, where he is an associate principal. He has over two decades of architectural experience designing, managing, and building projects around the world, including more than 35 projects at Morphosis Architects, where Tamm-Seitz worked with Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne for over 19 years. His major projects include the O’Donnell Athenaeum Phase I and II at UT Dallas (2021-26), a regional planning project in the Middle East (2019-21), the Beirut New Embassy Campus (2015-25), the Perot Museum of Nature and Science (2008-12), the Taubman Complex at Lawrence Technological University (2012-16), and Centennial Tower in Singapore (2015-16).
In addition to his professional work, Tamm-Seitz maintains an active academic presence through lectures and university presentations and has previously taught design studio at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). Tamm-Seitz has a bachelor of science in design, cum laude, from Clemson University, and a master of architecture and a post-professional master of urban design from Washington University in St. Louis. He is licensed in California and a member of the national American Institute of Architects.
Aleksander Tamm-Seitz
Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor, Spring 2026
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Nov 11 at 5:30pm • Kemper Art Museum
Roots and Rhizomes: Relational Networks in the Art of Carolina Caycedo
In 2022, Carolina Caycedo stewarded the planting of an indigenous shadbush tree in a community garden in New York City’s East Harlem (El Barrio). This living organism, whose metaphorical seeds grew from Caycedo’s ongoing “Genealogy of Struggle” series, inspires Susanna V. Temkin’s exploration of the artist’s work within larger relational networks. Expanding ecological and symbolic concepts associated with roots, seeds, and branches, Temkin considers connections within Caycedo’s practice and across broader art histories of the Americas. In particular, Temkin will address connections to other artists in Caycedo’s work, along with broader histories of protest, ecofeminism, solidarity, and resistance.
This talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots”, as well as the forthcoming presentation of Confluencias at El Museo del Barrio, New York (originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo).
About the Speaker
Susanna V. Temkin is an art historian and the interim chief curator at El Museo del Barrio, where she has worked since 2018. Temkin earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas, with a concentration on Cuba. At El Museo, her curatorial credits include the museum’s fiftieth anniversary exhibition, "Culture and the People" (2019), “La Trienal” (2020, 2024, and forthcoming 2027 edition), and the recent monograph of photographer Sophie Rivera (2026), among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as assistant curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin contributed essays to several exhibition catalogues and publications and is currently serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.