Christine Blau 
Christopher Martin, nationally renowned furnishings structure-maker, will be giving a Hyde and Kunzendorf co-sponsored lecture titled “Design Tangents A Story of Exploration and Widespread Threads,” at 4 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Union Swanson Auditorium.
Martin is founder of Christopher Martin Home furniture and performs as a household furniture designer and maker on commission get the job done and generates a line of little batch furnishings items for sale online. He also collaborates with standard artisans in Ghana and India.
Ahead of opening his individual small business, Martin taught furniture design in the Section of Art and Visual Culture at Iowa Point out University starting off in 1999, and retiring in 2022 as an emeritus professor.
In 2008, Martin took depart from his training place to provide as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the West African state of Ghana for two a long time. He was deeply affected by his activities there and his study and innovative outputs show this.
Far more lately, Martin was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to devote five months in India operating with both classic artisans and modern day craftsmen and professionals to produce a series of present-day home furniture pieces that pay back reverence to the richness of India’s regular craft culture.
For this lecture, Martin will give an illustrated tour that will delve into his entire body of home furniture parts. He will discuss the a lot of sources of inspiration, his fascination with material and process and the progression of his own work.
This presentation is aspect of the Faculty of Architecture’s 2022-2023 Hyde Lecture Collection showcasing speakers from throughout disciplines that are united underneath the popular concept of “Information Stimulus — New Paradigms in Organizing and Style.” Now, additional so than at any time, the evolution in information and facts technological innovation is remaining pushed by novel signifies of uncovering, transferring, and disseminating information. State-of-the-art paradigms have emerged by the information and facts drawn from other disciplines and the technology of revolutionary procedures and tools and how they effect the professions of setting up and layout now and in the future.
The college’s Hyde Lecture Collection is a long-standing, endowed, community method. Every year the faculty hosts powerful speakers in the fields of architecture, interior layout, landscape architecture and arranging that enrich the ongoing dialog all over agendas which are paramount to the style and design disciplines and our graduates.
