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UNLV School of Architecture Welcomed
Shashi Caan
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:00-8:30 pm

Lecture title: Vision & vocabulary
Lecture available on VHS & DVD: Arch Media NA2750 .V57 2005 (b)
Video Cover information:
Shashi Caan is the Chair of Interior Design at the Parsons School of Design in New York and principal of Shashi Caan Collective. In this lecture she questions and re-evaluates our concepts of design and architecture and investigates the appropriateness of current design methodology. Shashi claims there is no more avant garde and that design has become entranced by Hollywood/Bollywood, and she seeks answers for the future by critiquing the designs of today. She discusses issues such as form making and the result of too much intellectual design, why today's architecture does not provoke delight at discovery, design vocabulary versus communication (and what we truly mean), designing for humans, color-generated design, and technology in real life

Materials by or about Shashi Caan in the ASL Library Catalog

Websites about Shashi Caan:

Shashi Caan Collective
http://www.shashicaan.com/ (accessed 11/05)

Profile: Shasi Caan (accessed 11/05):
http://www.iidany.org/IIDA_Winter_2003.pdf