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Janet Echelman

Wed, Oct 29    1pm

Please join the Historic Preservation program at GSAPP for a lecture by Janet Echelman, an artist known for sculpting at the scale of buildings and city blocks, creating large-scale, fluid installations that merge art, architecture, and engineering.

Please register here if you are a non-CU affiliate and would like to attend this event.

Echelman uses unconventional materials—from atomized water particles to fiber stronger than steel—blending traditional craft with advanced computational design. Her monumental works anchor public spaces across five continents, in cities including New York, London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. Permanent installations in locations such as San Francisco, Vancouver, and Porto continually evolve with shifting light and air. Echelman’s unconventional path includes a degree from Harvard, five years living in a Balinese village, and graduate studies in both painting and psychology.

Her major new monograph from Princeton Architectural Press, [Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman (2025)], is a comprehensive sourcebook that unpacks Echelman’s vital practice and her ongoing commitment to, “Taking Imagination Seriously,” the title of her TED Talk, which has been translated into thirty-five languages and has more than two million views. Oprah has ranked Echelman’s work #1 on her List of 50 Things That Make You Say Wow!, and she received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Visual Arts, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and has taught at MIT, Harvard, and Princeton.

The Preservation Lecture Series is organized by the MS in Historic Preservation program.