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Judith Dupré lectures frequently, most notably at gatherings sponsored by the American Institute of Architects; American Museum of Natural History, New York; Australia National University; Brooklyn Museum; Brown University; Museum of the City of New York; Museum of Western Art, Denver, CO; Salve Regina College; Redwood Library; Design Build Institute of America; and on the Queen Mary 2. She has discussed the built environment on numerous television and radio shows, including CBS, WOR/New York; All Things Considered; New York & Company; the History Channel, the Learning Channel, Bloomberg News; Science Live, the John Williams Show; and Radio National Australia, among others.

Lecture topics include:

The Evolving Monument: Because consensus about historical perspectives, shared values, and appropriate visual vocabularies is increasingly rare, monuments must find new ways to inspire and console. This illustrated lecture explores the evolution of the American from traditional, neo-classical structures to contemporary memorials that are temporary, spontaneous, and mobile.

Church Building: An Eternal Collaboration: This illustrated one-hour talk explores the roots of the design and construction process in the construction of landmark Christian churches. It investigates the nature and extent of historic and contemporary ecclesiastical collaborations here and abroad-between master builders and patrons, architects and theologians, congregations and corporations-that have resulted in some of civilization’s most memorable structures.

Creating Identity through Bridges: This illustrated one-hour talk features striking photographs of the world’s great bridges. The talk examines the role of bridges, historic and contemporary construction methods, and how bridges create and confer identity. It looks at several new bridges that reflect the growing interest of ordinary citizens in having their say about what’s built, and the slow but sure trend of producing more aesthetic bridge designs that solve transportation problems as well as do double duty as icons of a city.

The American Skyscraper: This illustrated one-hour presentation examines the rise of the tall building in New York and Chicago, the two great laboratories of early skyscraper design. It investigates the economic, geographic, and political reasons for building tall, and the future of the American skyscraper. The construction and iconography of skyscrapers throughout the United States are contrasted and compared with the skyscrapers now under construction in Asia.