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KSU Regnier Visiting Professor Miguel Roca
to explore urban design in Kansas City

The Kansas City Design Center is pleased to announce that the distinguished Argentinean architect and educator Miguel Angel Roca will be visiting the KCDC in early September as the 2007-2008 Victor L. Regnier Visiting Faculty Chair in Architecture at Kansas State University.

In addition to several visits to the Manhattan campus in the coming year, Prof. Roca will be working with students in Prof. Vladimir Krstic's fifth-year studio on strategic urban and architectural interventions in downtown Kansas City.

Profs. Roca, Krstic and their KSU students will be in residence at the KCDC on September 4 and 5, as well as September 11 and 12, where they will engage with local architects and city planners on contextual interventions in Kansas City's South Loop.

Prof. Roca also will give a public lecture in Kansas City on September 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the Helzberg Auditorium, Fifth Floor, Kansas City Public Library, 14 West 10th St., Kansas City, Missouri. A reception precedes the lecture, which is free and open to the public. Click here for more information on the lecture, or to reserve a a seat.

About Miguel Angel Roca

Miguel Angel Roca studied architecture and urban design at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, and at the University of Pennsylvania under Louis Kahn, for whom he worked. His architectural practice has earned him numerous international design awards, and has been featured in eight monographs.

He has authored a number of important theoretical articles on architecture and urbanism, and has served as a professor or visiting professor at many prestigious universities in South America, Europe, and the United States. He has been a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba since 1975, and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism from 1992 until 2002. While continuing his prolific architectural practice, Prof. Roca also serves as Professor of Architecture at the National University of Buenos Aires.

The Victor L. Regnier Visiting Faculty Chair in Architecture at Kansas State University is funded by the Victor and Helen Regnier Family Foundation of Mission, Kansas. The chair was established in 2003 through the extraordinary generosity of his children Victor A. Regnier, Robert D. Regnier, and Catherine M. Regnier, who sought to enrich the educational experience of Kansas State University architecture students by exposing them to the finest architects from around the world.