After eight years as Dean of Architecture at California College of the Arts, Keith Krumwiede reflects on what he has learned from CCA: its people, its culture, and its particular way of framing our work as designers, teachers, and learners in a complex and fast-changing world.

Drawing on his experiences at CCA during a period of significant change for the college, the discipline, and higher education, Krumwiede reflects on how educational cultures are made and who makes them. The talk is both personal and speculative: a reflection on an institution and a community, but also an exploration of what CCA might teach us about the future of design education and practice.

Following the talk, Krumwiede will be joined in conversation by longtime CCA faculty members Lisa Findley and Mark Donohue.

Keith Krumwiede is Dean of Architecture and Professor at California College of the Arts. His research, teaching, and design work explore architecture in relation to its cultural, social, and political contexts, and he is the author of Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction and a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture.

Lisa Findley is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at California College of the Arts, where she taught for more than 30 years, founded and chaired the MArch program, chaired the BArch program, and twice served as Interim Dean. A scholar and architectural journalist, she explores architecture in relation to political, cultural, social, economic, and environmental change and is the author of Building Change: Architecture, Politics, and Cultural Agency.

Mark Donohue, AIA, is a licensed architect and educator who has taught at California College of the Arts for more than 25 years and has twice served as Chair of Undergraduate Architecture. He is principal and cofounder of Visible Research Office, a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary practice whose work explores questions of space, form, structure, light, and geometry alongside research into new fabrication techniques and materials.

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