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Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, urbanist, writer, and Associate Professor of Architecture & Urban Design at UC Berkeley.
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4/17/13 Lecture, Princeton University School of Architecture. 6:30 PM, Betts Auditorium
...................................4/17/13 2013-2014 Rome Prize
...................................3/1/13 Public Lecture, Bartlett School of Architecture 6:30 PM. Cruciform Lecture Theatre (B304), Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
...................................10/17/12, Public Lecture, UTS, Sydney, 6:30 PM.
...................................10/15/12, Public Lecture, Griffith University, Queensland, 6:00 PM, Arts Center Gold Coast.
...................................10/2/2012, Public Lecture at Syracuse University School of Architecture, Slocum Hall, 5:00 PM
...................................9/26/2012, Presentation at SUDes 2012, Sustainable Urban Design Program, Department of Architecture, University of Lund.
...................................9/21-9/23/2012, Local Code Venice / Ecology of Strangers, workshop, part of Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good" at the US Pavillion, 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
...................................8/29/2012 Opening of the US Pavillion , 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, winner of a special mention from the Golden Lion Jury.
...................................8/28/2012 Panel on “Spontaneous Interventions” at the US Pavillion, 13th. Venice Architecture Biennale with Moshen Mostafavi, David Rockwell, Toni Griffith and Amale Andraos.
...................................8/17/2012, Renny Pritkin at Art Practical praises “truly surprising” installation of Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes
...................................8/1/2012, KCET LA Feature on collaboration with the Amigos de Los Rios, Los Angeles, designing over 800 micro-parks for billboard lots in Los Angeles.
...................................7/12/2012-7/14/2012 Workshop, Can there be a Science of Cities, at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
...................................6/19/2012, Presentation on design, mapping and sustainability at Rio+20 summit, Riocentro, Rio de Janiero.
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A heavily linked text (and not just in the sense of sausage), Meatropolis examines the shared history of meat and the city. It was written in 2006 for the art magazine 
A collaboration with 
What if cities saw olympic-scaled events as a strategic stimulus, and not stagecraft? This design research project at the 
(with Thomas de Monchaux). Our cities are defined by two types of architecture; that which is seen as permanent, and therefore subject to a range of conservative pressures, and that which is seen as temporary, and therefore given spatial, and conceptual license. Yet our experience of the city is defined by a regular upending of this relationship; that which is seen as permanent, is often not — and that which is “temporary” regularly defines our long-term experience of the city. A 
What if the spaces and capacities of urban infrastructure were seen as a shared resource? As machines, or, to use a onetime synonym, organs, of urban robustness? This research project at the 
The events of September 11, 2001 forced the 