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.
Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor, Spring 2026
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Apr 15 at 5:30pm • Museum Lobby
Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal, historical, and material dimensions in their art.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27, 2026.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series