Wednesday, Nov. 8, 5:30 p.m., 301 Crosby Hall: "Competition to Completion," Michael R. Winstanley, AIA, AICP, Cannon Design.

Winstanley, design leader and vice president of Cannon Design, chronicles the progress of a major project-the Center for Environmental Science and Technology at SUNY Albany-from design competition through construction. He illustrates how architects and designers deal with the many hurdles they encounter on the road from concept to completion.

Wednesday, Nov. 29 , 5:30 p.m., 301 Crosby Hall: "Community Input into Neighborhood Planning," Jan Peters, executive director, Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers.

Jan Peters is a well-known community organizer and administrator under whom the BFNC has developed from a $400,000-a-year, not-for-profit-organization to one that annually administers $4.5 million in diversified community services for all age groups. She will discuss how a community can make or break the best laid plans, and how input from those to be served can be solicited by neighborhood planners and used to best effect.

Wednesday, Dec. 6, 5:30 p.m., 301 Crosby Hall: "The Art of Design and Delineation: 'I Know What it Looks Like But I Can't Draw It,"

James Piatt, Piatt Associates.

James Piatt is an influential perspective delineator whose architectural renderings not only illustrate the work of architects, but actually help to determine the end result. He will discuss his way of "seeing" and depicting a project still in the conceptual phase and his relationship to the design process.