BRANDON PACE | "PAST/PRESENT" | SOA'S FALL '23/SPRING '24 LECTURE SERIES

Past/Present

Brandon Pace visits FAU SoA on Tuesday, November 11, 2023, presenting a lecture titled “Past/Present” that begins at 3 PM at the Main Library . Brandon will share stories of Knoxville’s inner-city neighborhoods through a series of projectsthatillustrate how the social, economic, and cultural circumstances that shaped 20^th century development in Knoxville inform the Firm’s design process. The talk will focus on recent public, private, and institutional projects and the historic development patterns that shaped each site.

Sanders Pace Architecture

Formed in 2002, Sanders Pace Architecture combines the design talents of John Sanders and Brandon Pace to provide full-service architecture, planning, and design services to clients seeking a thoughtful, progressive solution to meet their goals and needs. Initially focused on unique adaptive reuse and renovation projects in the central core of Knoxville, their practice has grown to include small-scale custom residential work, innovative institutional buildings, and large-scale public sector projects that integrate research into a collaborative design process which leads to unique and inventive solutions. With over 100 planning, preservation, and design awards received among other accolades, Sanders Pace has established itself as one of the most thoughtful and imaginative firms practicing in the Southeast.

Brandon Pace, FAIA

Brandon Pace is a founding partner of Sanders Pace Architecture, started in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2002 with partner John Sanders. With work that is extensively researched and thoughtfully executed, Brandon has become a critical voice for a region and context often overlooked. In an era of increasing globalization, Brandon approaches architecture with a local mindset, identifying and expanding upon those cultural, physical, and social characteristics and circumstances that define a place and make it unique. By identifying opportunities within these constraints Brandon has established a foundation and framework for a design process that has led his projects to more than 50 local, regional, and national AIA design awards and publication in books and magazines throughout the world. Brandon holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Tennessee where he has served as an Adjunct Lecturer and invited critic. He is also an active critic and lecturer at colleges of architecture and design across the United States and has become a resource to other AIA chapters across the country through invited lectures and as jury chair for multiple local and state AIA design awards programs. In recognition of his design work and contribution to the profession, Brandon was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2019.