The Mix is All – Keller Easterling 2026

Overview

The UB School of Architecture and Planning presents “The Mix is All,” a lecture by architect and writer Keller Easterling as part of its Spring 2026 Public Programs. The event takes place at Hayes Hall, University at Buffalo South Campus, and is also accessible remotely via Zoom.

Focus

The lecture explores alternative approaches to architecture and design that challenge dominant modernist frameworks. Easterling questions singular solutions and binary thinking, proposing instead emergent relationships and productive combinations as responses to global challenges such as climate change, inequality, and concentrations of power.

Program

The session addresses themes from Easterling’s recent publications, including Medium Design and Extrastatecraft, alongside her ongoing research on land activism in the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. Her work examines infrastructure, governance, and spatial politics, which contributes to contemporary architectural events and discourse through her research.

Speaker

Keller Easterling is the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Her work spans research, writing, and exhibitions presented internationally, including participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale. She is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Architecture and Design and recipient of the Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking.

Event Details

✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight

“The Mix is All” by Keller Easterling establishes architectural practice as part of the essential infrastructure systems which operate under governance frameworks and spatial political systems while it challenges the existing modernist dualities and solution-centered approaches. The lecture presents relational methods together with adaptive systems which create spatial solutions that address climate change and social inequality and power dynamics through their indirect yet comprehensive system changes. The architectural field considers its value through the way design transforms into a dynamic force which influences political and economic systems instead of existing as a separate field of study. The session establishes a theoretical framework which helps architects understand how they should conduct their work with institutional and territorial systems.

Closing Note

The lecture presents uncertainty as a valuable space where spatial design can develop instead of an obstacle that should be removed. The system describes its operational framework through adaptive practices which establish relationships inside complex political environments and technological systems.

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