SJL Client, AIA Wisconsin Announces 2025 Capitol Day (2/7)
Wednesday, February 7
AIA WI Capitol Day - "What Democracy Needs" Program and Reception
AIA WI Capitol Day - "What Democracy Needs: Spaces for Public Discourse" Program and Reception
Date and time
Wednesday, February 7 · 4:30 - 7pm CST
Location
Park Hotel
22 S. Carroll St Capitol Room Madison, WI 53703
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Refunds up to 7 days before event
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About this event
Join us for a reception and presentation "What Democracy Needs: Spaces for Public Discourse" by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro.
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Cocktail Reception with Legislators
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Program: "What Democracy Needs: Spaces for Public Discourse" by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
6:30 – 7:00 pm
After hours networking
This event is free and open to the public.
Please consider a donation to Wisconsin Society of Architects/Political Action Committee
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro is an interdisciplinary architect operating at the intersection of architecture and landscape, and exploring emptiness and allied spatial concepts (such as voids, nothingness, or limbo) to imagine a public realm where groups of free, diverse, and spontaneous strangers become a public body. Currently, he is focusing on the spatial needs and expressions of democratic acts that generate trust between strangers, such as voting or conversing face-to-face with citizens of opposing political views.
He is the author of A Glossary of Urban Voids (Jovis, 2020) and Typologies for Big Words (ORO Editions, 2022). Lopez-Pineiro is the director of the design studio Holes of Matter and an Assistant Professor in Architecture at the School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he teaches design studios and theory seminars focusing on the public nature of the built environment. He has previously held the 2006-07 Reyner Banham Fellowship at the University at Buffalo and the 2014-15 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellowship at Harvard University.
Lopez-Pineiro is a licensed architect in Spain. He trained at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University, where he was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize.
