For over 30 years, architects and designers from around the world have been coming to Portland every April to present at Architalx broadening awareness and understanding of architecture, landscape architecture, and design by sponsoring lectures that foster evocative and creative dialogue within the design community and with the general public.

Join us Monday, April 22 as Jeffrey L. Day of Actual Architecture Company speaks on "Nonsite Specific".

Using contemporary art as a path towards rethinking some old assumptions, Jeffrey Day will unpack alternative ways that the architecture–site relationship appears in the work of Actual Architecture Co. and the student design-build practice, FACT. The lecture challenges ideas reconsidering site specificity as the suitable matching of prototype to site: generic shape as site-adjusted architecture. He will discuss how In this process the architect takes on the role of product developer and site adjuster instead of the more familiar role as designer of supposedly unique objects.

Jeff is Douglass Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Nebraska and founding principal of Actual Architecture Company, an internationally recognized architecture and design firm based in Omaha, Nebraska, and operating around the world with expansive vision. At UNL Jeff runs FACT, an interdisciplinary design/build studio that engages nonprofits and communities in collaborations that span design and construction. By maximizing the potential of both academic and professional practices, Actual.AC integrates design-research, speculative design practice, and a commitment to building highly refined yet flexible architecture with diverse clients. Jeff has garnered numerous awards and his work has been exhibited in galleries all over the world.