Award-winning architect Aaron Cayer '12 returns to speak at 51Թ
An architecture alumnus returns to his alma mater for a guest lecture.
51Թ’s School of Architecture + Art lecture series continues Friday, Jan. 16, at 1 p.m. in Chaplin Gallery with a lecture by alumnus Aaron Cayer ’12.
The event is free and open to the public. A livestream will also be .
Cayer’s research has been recognized and supported by international awards and fellowships. Most recently, he was the only individual in the field of architecture to receive a 2025 Carnegie Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation.
He also received the 2024 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a 2021 Thom Fellowship from the Huntington Library, and the inaugural Kristine Fallon Prize by the International Archive of Women in Architecture in 2022. In 2020, he was named to the Architecture League of New York’s “American Roundtable” for his research on rural economies and communities.
His first book, “Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire,” was published by UC Press in 2025. In it, he traces the rise of U.S.-based architecture and engineering corporations, such as AECOM, as well as their impact on professions and politics after World War II.
1.5 LU’s (pending)
This series is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, a philanthropic organization supporting cancer research, education, volunteerism, and other charitable endeavors, backs the School of Architecture + Art Lecture Series. For more than 10 years, the Byrne Foundation and 51Թ have partnered to bring eminent national and international architects, designers, artists and writers to campus. Events are free and open to the public.
51Թ is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. 51Թ offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. 51Թ was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. 51Թ is one of our nation's six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
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