AMES, Iowa – Belgian architect and co-founder of Traumnovelle Johnny Leya will present the 2024 Curt F. Dale Guest Lecture in Architecture at Iowa State University.
Part of the Department of Architecture’s 2023-2024 Public Program series, “Of the Land,” his free lecture will be at 4 p.m. Friday, April 5, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 101 College of Design.
About the speakers
Leya joins Léone Drapeaud and Manuel León Fanjul as founding partners of Traumnovelle. The Brussels-based architectural collective uses architecture and fiction as analytical, critical and subversive tools to emphasize contemporary issues and dissect their resolutions.
Leya has worked in various architecture and urban planning offices, including the Charleroi Bouwmeester, Buro Ole Scheeren in Beijing and Studio Muoto in Paris. He is an architecture professor at the ULB Faculty of Architecture and he teaches a design and politics graduate workshop at ERG in Brussels. He is regularly invited as a guest critic at the National School of Architecture of Versailles, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. Leya received his master of architecture with honors from the ULB Faculty of Architecture in Brussels in 2015.
About the Curt F. Dale Guest Lecture
The Curt F. Dale Guest Lecture in Architecture was established in 2003 in memory of 1969 Iowa State architecture alumnus Curt F. Dale, who died in a skiing accident that year. Dale’s family and his firm, AndersonMasonDale Architects in Denver, Colorado, created the endowed fund for the ISU architecture department to bring distinguished practitioners to campus as guest lecturers.
Contacts
Peter Zuroweste, Public Programs Committee Chair, Department of Architecture, peterz@iastate.edu
Lauren Johnson, Communications Specialist, College of Design, laujohn2@iastate.edu
