Cynthia Davidson is a co-founder and executive director of Anyone Corporation, the nonprofit think tank in New York, and editor of the international architecture journal Log.

She is the former editor of ANY magazine, a tabloid also known as Architecture New York, and Inland Architect magazine in Chicago. She has also edited nearly 40 books, including more than 20 in the Writing Architecture Series she produces with The MIT Press.

She has organized more than a dozen cross-cultural multidisciplinary conferences on architecture, and written for numerous periodicals, including Artforum, Arquitectura Viva and Abitare. Her work was recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Architecture Award in 2014.

Davidson will present a lecture at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.

In her lecture, she will discuss the exhibition for the United States Pavilion at the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon curated the exhibition, titled “The Architectural Imagination," which presents new speculative projects for Detroit. It features the work of 12 American architecture practices that were assigned sites in Detroit and asked to develop programs and forms that would catalyze positive change in this shrinking postindustrial city.

An unusual exercise for an exhibition, “The Architectural Imagination" raises questions about clients, socioeconomic issues, and the power of architecture and architectural ideas to effect meaningful change in how the city is inhabited today. Davidson will discuss how the projects were developed and how they will next be presented to the Detroit audience in 2017.

This is the Martha Dellinger Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Jim and Sharon Parker.