Baumer Lecture Series – Mack Scogin & Merrill Elam

Join the Knowlton School for the next Baumer Series lecture on October 23.

Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the two principals of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, have worked together throughout their careers. They have and continue to pursue self-referential architecture distinguished by situational differences. Each of their projects—diverse in type, size, and location—embodies a search for an architecture of expansive specificity.

Projects by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam have received design awards including eight National American Institute of Architects Awards of Excellence. Knowlton Hall is among the eight. The work of Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam has been widely published including the 1992 Rizzoli, Scogin Elam and Bray: Critical Architecture / Architectural Criticism, the 1999 University of Michigan publication Mack & Merrill, and the 2005 Princeton Architectural Press Mack Scogin Merrill Elam: Knowlton Hall. Their work has been exhibited at museums and galleries, nationally and internationally, including the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.

Both principals have been engaged in architectural education. From 1990 to 1995, Mack Scogin served as Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he taught as the Kajima Professor in Practice of Architecture until 2023. Merrill Elam lectures broadly and has taught at over twenty schools of architecture. In addition to practice and teaching, mentorship, pro bono work in the arts, and involvement in the AIA, have and continue to flavor their careers. Mack Scogin served as Chair of the AIA Committee on Design from 1985 to 1987.

Current and recent projects include the new United States Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa for the General Services Administration; Jackson Park in Queens, New York for Tishman Speyer; Lodge and Boathouse at Gathering Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the George Kaiser Family Foundation; and a new museum for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta, Georgia.

October 23, 2024
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

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