Knowlton SoA exhibition examines architecture’s role in the Great Lakes Megalopolis

A new exhibition at the Knowlton School of Architecture on The Ohio State University campus aims to explore the work of The Great Lakes Architectural Expedition, a public architecture office founded in 2019 that takes Lake Erie as its principal client. Created by Knowlton LeFevre Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture Galen Pardee, the exhibition uses archival models, drawings, documents, and studies to explore "the organizational structure of the Great Lakes Architectural Expedition itself, as well as early attempts by the Expedition’s Lake Erie Board to establish their roles as public advocates and draft the contours of non-human architect-client relationships," according to exhibition text.  "The Expedition’s mission has prompted a fundamental re-thinking of architecture’s role in the Great Lakes Megalopolis—engaging legal and physical terrains with equal dexterity, expanding architectural practice with non-human client structures, and transforming architects into agents fo...