Mark Sanderson will present a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the U of A campus, as part of the spring lecture series in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

Sanderson, FAIA, is a designer, thought leader, and co-founder of DIGSAU, a deeply collaborative architectural practice whose projects promote art, creativity, discovery, exploration, learning, health, wellness, and more.

In his lecture, “Perfecting Imperfection,” Sanderson asserts that the designer's role as “orchestrator of improvisation and imperfection” offers an opportunity to produce authentic, enduring architecture that is rooted in place.

DIGSAU’s projects explore the improvisation and imperfection inherent in the act of making by counteracting the construction industry’s continuous march toward the selection of universal products that are quickly assembled. The design industry's shift away from craft and making toward product selection has led to a proliferation of ubiquitous, repetitive and placeless architecture.

This is the Cromwell Architects Engineers Lecture in the Role of Engineering in Architecture and Design.

This lecture is open to the public. Admission is free, with limited seating.

For more information, visit https://fayjones.uark.edu/news-and-events/lectures/2024-2025/mark-sanderson.php.

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