Don't miss the third installment for the 2025 AIA San Diego Lecture Series Featuring:

Weston Walker, AIA
Design Principal and Partner at Studio Gang

WHERE: Casa Del Prado Patio B, Balboa Park
WHEN: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
TIME: 6 PM Networking + Check-In | 7 PM Lecture | 8 PM Q&A

Architect Weston Walker, AIA, is a Design Principal and Partner at Studio Gang, an internationally recognized architecture and urban design practice founded and led by Jeanne Gang. As Partner in Charge of Studio Gang’s New York office, Wes oversees a robust portfolio of cultural, residential, and civic work across the city and throughout the Americas.

Wes has led projects across a range of typologies and regions, from the Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to a design cohort planning effort for San Francisco’s new Mission Rock neighborhood. His current projects include Harvard University’s first building with a mass timber structure--the David Rubenstein Treehouse--in Boston, a new U.S. Embassy in Brasília, and a student residential complex in Southern California.

Verde, Studio Gang. © Jason O’Rear

His lecture will present a selection of Studio Gang projects that demonstrate the firm’s ecological approach, which considers how architecture can create and facilitate new and exciting connections between people, communities, and the natural world.

Register Below! Limited capacity

$5 - AIA Members | $30 - General Admission | Free - Students

Proceeds from this event benefit the AIA San Diego Laura Shinn Diversity in Architecture Scholarship Fund, which supports the next generation of underrepresented students pursuing careers in architecture and design.

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About the Lecture Series

The AIA San Diego Lecture Series, in collaboration with NewSchool of Architecture & Design and UCSD Design Lab, explores the evolving future of urban architecture, design, and planning.

Featuring renowned designers, educators, and thought leaders from around the world, the series invites architects, students, and the public to join in bold conversations about how we shape — and reimagine — the cities we live in.


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