Lincoln, Nebraska, March 30, 2026 — Jeffrey L. Day, professor of architecture at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will present the next Nebraska Lecture on April 14. Day’s lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union’s Swanson Auditorium, with a Q&A session and reception to follow. The lecture is free and open to the public. Titled “House-ing,” Day’s lecture will focus on the house’s role as a site for testing new architectural ideas and ways of living, but also as a contested realm intersecting social conflict, access and financial inequity. “This lecture explores the house as a site for experimentation and crisis and focuses on potential opportunities and solutions,” said Day, professor of architecture and landscape architecture. Featuring specific houses from refined custom homes to affordable housing prototypes, the talk considers the house not only as a private realm, but the foundation for community. The visually engaging presentation will showcase projects designed by the speaker’s award-winning practice, Actual Architecture Company. Day also will discuss work produced through his UNL student workshop, the Fabrication and Construction Team (FACT), including the New Attainable House and OurStory, a community-based project in Omaha that asks, “How do we want to live as we age?” and offers potential solutions for the housing crisis. Day, a registered architect in Nebraska, Iowa and California, joined the Husker faculty in 2000 as a lecturer. He served as director of the architecture program from 2012 to 2017. In addition to his faculty role, Day has been a founding principal of Actual Architecture Company since 2018. He was also founding principal of the Min | Day firm from 2003-2018. Day is a fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, the world’s largest, most influential network of architects and design professionals. He earned a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995 and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1988. Day has won 136 design awards and produced about 180 publications of design work in his career. The Nebraska Lectures are offered twice a year and feature high-profile presentations by distinguished Husker faculty who address topics of broad interest in an engaging, accessible format. Archived videos from each lecture are available at https://research.unl.edu/nebraskalectures. The Nebraska Lectures: The Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor, Office of Research and Innovation and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Speakers were selected by the UNL Research Council.
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by Dan Moser
March 30, 2026
