LA-based architect to visit Stuckeman School for lecture

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Adam Sokol, founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based Adam Sokol Architecture Practice (asap/), will join the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at 4 p.m. Sept. 30 to present, “The Shape of Time,” an exploration of his firm’s work, in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space as part of the school’s lecture and exhibit series. The lecture, which is cohosted by the Department of Architecture, will also be live-streamed via Zoom.

Ranging through a variety of programmatic and formal typologies, the talk will revisit the formal language the firm has developed over time, with an evolving, rigorous use of geometry as an instigator of form and a means of understanding and analyzing site and context.

Sokol is a graduate of Columbia and Yale Universities and has also studied at Harvard University and the Université-Paris IV Sorbonne. While at Columbia, he studied with renowned historian and curator Barry Bergdoll, and theorist and critic Kenneth Frampton. Later at Yale he was an assistant to legendary historian Vincent Scully while also studying with noted architects Frank Gehry, Demetri Porphyrios and Robert A.M. Stern.

This unique background combining history and theory with design and practice continues to inform the work produced by the asap/ studio, with a keen interest in the broader spectrum of human history and culture, and a consideration of how that context may intelligently and critically influence contemporary practice.

Sokol is a registered architect in the states of New York and California, and a member of the American Institute of Architects. A native New Yorker, he can also be found in disguise as an enthusiastic Angeleno. His interests include piano, photography, hiking and travel, and he speaks English, French and Spanish.