First Posted: 3/20/2014

Architect Peter Bohlin of the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson will present the lecture, “The Nature of Circumstance” on Tuesday, April 8 at 4 p.m. in Evans Hall, Hibbard Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Respected as of the nation’s most preeminent architects, Bohlin is founding principal of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson with offices in Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle and San Francisco. The firm has received more than 540 awards for its civic, university, corporate and residential projects, including the Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor conferred by the American Institute of Architects. The firm’s work is published regularly in professional journals worldwide. Its portfolio includes work at local and international locations, including Pixar Animation Studios and Apple, Inc. stores worldwide, and current projects at Penn State main campus, Marywood University, and the University of Scranton.

Bohlin received his bachelor of architecture degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his master of architecture degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He received an honorary doctorate of arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Bohlin served as chairman of the AIA Committee on Design and has been a guest design critic and visiting professor at several leading schools of architecture. He frequently serves as a juror for national, regional, and state design competitions.