Please join us on Thursday, April 30th, 6:30-8:30 pm, for a special evening with Winka Dubbeldam.

In collaboration with the Helms Design District and the Cal Poly SLO/LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design

Helms Design Center        
8745 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232

Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.

Lecture is Free and Open to the Public with RSVP

Winka Dubbeldam is the Director and CEO of SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, following a decade as Professor and Chair of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (2013–2023), where she received the Louis I. Kahn Award for Outstanding Leadership and was named one of DesignIntelligence’s 30 Most Admired Educators (2015).

She previously taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Cornell, and currently serves as RIBA External Examiner for the DRL at the Architectural Association (2024–2027), and the Bartlett, UCL (2018–2023). An active voice in global architectural discourse, she frequently serves as juror and chair for major awards including the Prix de Rome, SARA, ULI, and AIA Awards, and has spoken at the UIA World Congress, CTBUH Conference, COP28, and the United Nations Headquarters on architecture’s social and environmental agency. She is Creative Director of the CityX Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021–2025) and serves on the Editorial Board of PLAN Journal.

In 1994, Dubbeldam founded Archi-Tectonics NYC, a research-driven design studio with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Hangzhou. Together with partner Justin Korhammer, she leads a multinational team working across scales and typologies through a methodology that integrates systems thinking, advanced computational design, and performance-based fabrication; from parametric modeling and 3D printing to full-scale manufacturing and user-experience optimization, bridging historical intelligence with future innovation.

Archi-Tectonics has received numerous international honors, including the SARA Excellence Award, CTBUH Excellence Award in Urban Habitat (2023), Architizer A+ Architecture Innovation Award (2023), and AIA Award (2022). The firm has exhibited at Aedes Berlin, MoMA, MoCA, and multiple Venice Architecture Biennales (2000, 2023, 2025). Its publications include Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things (Actar, 2021), with Monsters & Mutants: Explorations in the Architecture–Nature Continuum forthcoming Spring 2026 (Park Books). Dubbeldam holds memberships with AIA SARA, ULI, and CTBUH, and is WBE Certified.

Follow link for pre-sale purchases: Monsters & Mutants: Explorations in the Architecture–Nature Continuum forthcoming Spring 2026 (Park Books)

Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things (Actar, 2021) will be available at the Helms lecture for purchase and signing.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, FAIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).

Photos: (Top) Winka Dubbeldam; Hybrid Stadium & Concert Hall Facade. (Bottom) Hybrid Stadium & Concert Hall Facade Sunset View © Archi-Tectonics; Festival City Masterplan Aerial View © Archi-Tectonics.

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