Javier García-Germán is founder of TAAs, totem arquitectos asociados, in Madrid. Pictured is the 159-unit Carabanchel collective housing project. (Photo: Courtesy TAAs)
Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture: Javier García-Germán
Javier García-Germán will deliver the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture titled “Climate, Body, and Pleasure: a Typological Approach to Architecture.”
Founder of the award-winning practice TAAs — totem arquitectos asociados — García-Germán also directs the Madrid School of Architecture’s graduate programs in collective housing and ecological building. Recent projects include the Castellana 94 office building and the 159-unit Carabanchel collective housing for the Madrid city council.
García-Germán is currently the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture at WashU’s Sam Fox School.
One AIA continuing education credit available.
Upcoming Public Lectures
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