Harris Armstrong Fund Lecture: Michael Maltzan
Michael Maltzan founded Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc., in 1995. His projects cross a wide range of typologies, from cultural institutions to city infrastructure. Maltzan’s notable projects include the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, MoMA QNS, Star Apartments, the Pittman Dowell Residence, the new Sixth Street Viaduct, MIT Vassar Street Residential Hall, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery Inuit Art Centre.
Maltzan earned a master of architecture from Harvard University, and bachelor of fine arts and bachelor of architecture degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received the 2016 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal. He is a recipient of a 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award and was inducted as a member in 2023. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2020, and currently serves on the dean’s leadership council and visiting committee at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was featured in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s 2019 film, “What It Takes to Make a Home,” delivered the 20th annual John T. Dunlop Lecture for the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, and his work was named “One of the 25 Best Inventions of 2015” by Time Magazine.
One AIA continuing education credit available.
(Michael Maltzan, photo by Ron Eshel)