nowNM 2026 - Keynote

Title: A Sort of Homecoming

Presenter: Hadrian Predock

Credit: 1.5 AIA LU/HSW

This lecture presents a retrospective view of the work of Hadrian Predock Art and Architecture and will explore

what an expansive/multi-hyphenate practice means within our current cultural context. Predock’s life in architecture is

centered around the interplay between forms of art making, the practice of architecture, and teaching the discipline of

architecture.

Through a non-linear presentation, 25 years of work will be framed within short stories or narratives that draw out

consistent threads of thought and design exploration -- some material, some conceptual, some curatorial, and some

based around questions of visual representation. Architecture will be presented as an ongoing, never complete

experiment, constantly returning to itself – a sort of homecoming.

Schedule:

Thursday, April 23, 2026

5:30 - 7:00 PM | Keynote with Hadrian Predock

Friday, April 24, 2026 | The AIA New Mexico State Conference

8:00-9:00 AM | Registration and Vendor Setup

9:00-10:00 AM | Breakfast with Vendors

10:00 - 10:50 AM | Speaker

11:00 - 11:50 AM | Speaker

12:00-2:00 PM | Lunch & Vendor Mixer

2:00-4:00 PM | Panel

6:00 PM | elevAte Design + Honor Awards

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$1,500 Panel Sponsor | 2 Maximum | Includes 4 Tickets

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Hadrian Predock Biography

Hadrian Predock was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and received his Bachelor of Arts in  Architecture from the University of New Mexico and his Master of Architecture degree from  the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has lived and worked in Los Angeles for 30 years.  

Hadrian has a broad range of activities in both architecture and art including teaching,  writing, curating exhibitions, and practicing, which is fostered by his belief in having  expansive disciplinary boundaries and varying roles. His architectural practice, Hadrian  Predock Art and Architecture evolved out of the dissolution of his sixteen-year collaboration  with John Frane (Predock_Frane Architects). His professional work ranges from small-scale art projects to large public venues. He purposefully constructs a permeable and fluid  boundary between his work in academia and his art and architecture practice.  

Hadrian is currently a Professor of Practice at the USC School of Architecture and was the  Director of Undergraduate Programs from 2014-2020. His prior academic posts include  faculty positions at UCLA AUD (2007-2014), Otis College of Design and the University of  New Mexico in addition to teaching fellowships at both UC Berkeley and Tulane University. 

Hadrian’s professional accolades include the 2004 and 2012 Venice Biennale, the  Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Architectural League Emerging Voices, multiple AIA  Honor Awards, and has exhibited his work internationally in prestigious institutions  including MOCA Los Angeles, the US Pavilion in Venice, Italy, the Pomona College  Museum of Art, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, the Yale Art and  Architecture Gallery, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in  New York. He has been a visiting critic at many schools and has lectured extensively. 

As an artist, Predock works on the interchange between art and architecture. His art  practice serves to illuminate questions surrounding architecture from outside of the  discipline, generating new understandings and liveliness through art making.  Engaging the periphery of what helps to constitute architecture and architectural  practices, Predock works through painting, objects and spatial environments to  reveal and enhance the more peripheral subjects of architecture. This work includes  subjects of digital representation, architectural props like figures, furniture and  landscape, and self-reflection on his own architecture practice.