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Sean Lally | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst University of California, Los Angeles |
Occupation(s) | Architect, academic and author |
Practice | Sean Lally Architecture |
Website | seanlally nightwhiteskies |
Sean Lally (born April 1974) is an American architect based in Lausanne, Switzerland where he is the principal of Sean Lally Architecture Sarl. He is a clinical associate professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1]
Lally is a recipient of the the Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome[2]
Education and career
[edit]Lally received his Bachelor of Science Landscape Architecture (BSLA) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a Wortham Fellow at the Rice School of Architecture from 2002 to 2004,[3] and the Myles H. Thaler Visiting professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia in 2018.[4]
Lally's work looks at the implications of world problems (climate change, healthcare and communication technologies) and how they will shape spaces and communities in the future.[1] He is the author of the book The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come.[5]
Lally was invited to present his work at La Biennale de Venezia's 17th International Architecture Exhibition[6] and as University Design Research Fellow for the 2019 Exhibit Columbus.[7][6]
In 2016, Lally began the podcast Night White Skies.[8]
Awards
[edit]Lally received the Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome[9] and the Young Architects Award from the Architectural League of New York.[10]
Books
[edit]Authored
[edit]- Lally, Sean (2014). The Air From Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 9783037783931.
Edited
[edit]- Lally, Sean (2009). Energies: New Material Boundaries: Architectural Design. Wiley. ISBN 9780470753637.
- Lally, Sean; Young, Jessica (2006). Softspace: From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space. Routledge. ISBN 9780415402019.
Selected projects
[edit]- Shaped Touch, La Biennale de Venezia, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Arsenale, Venice Italy 2021 Curated by Hashim Sarkis[6]
- The Long Now, Installation as part of Exhibit Columbus, Columbus, Indiana, 2019
- EOS Series, Untitled One, Untitled Two, Untitled Three
- Gdansk Museum of World War II, Two Stage International Competition, Gdansk, Poland
- Tamula Lakeside Planning, Two-stage competition Voru, Estonia
- Estonian Academy of Arts, Two-stage competition, Tallinn, Estonia
- Amplification, Installation as part of the Gen(h)ome Project, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA[11][12]
- Cheltenham Museum Addition, One stage Competition, Cheltenham, England
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sean Lally - Architecture at UIC". University of Chicago, Illinois.
- ^ "Rome Prize Fellows - Sean Lally". American Academy in Rome. 3 June 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "Wortham Fellows". Rice University. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "UVA School of Architecture Welcomes Fall 2018 Visiting Faculty". University of Virginia School of Architecture. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "Sean Lally: Energy as Architecture". Metropolis. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
- ^ a b c "Biennale Architettura 2021". La Biennale di Venezia. January 11, 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "Sean Lally - Exhibit Columbus". Bustler. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ ""Night White Skies" Podcast Explores How the Design of Our Environment and Our Bodies is Changing Architecture". ArchDaily. November 19, 2016.
- ^ "Sean Lally". American Academy in Rome. 3 June 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "No Precedent: Architectural League Prize Winners Announced". Architect Magazine. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "Open Source Architecture". Schindler Lab. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
- ^ "Sensing future environments: Sean Lally". Landscape Australia. Retrieved 7 May 2025.