(Burbank, CA ­ January 15, 2003) Brazilian architect Angelo Bucci will kick off the 2003 Woodbury University lecture series exploring issues related to architecture and design.

The lectures, sponsored by the Woodbury University School of Architecture and Design and Toyota Motor Sales USA, are open to the public and are free.

Bucci, who teaches at Belas Artes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will speak at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, January 28 at Woodbury University, Design Center Gallery, 7500 Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank.

Four additional lectures will take place in February and March. All lectures begin at 6 p.m. and will be held at the Design Center Gallery on the Woodbury campus.

• Tuesday, February 4 — Lorraine Wild, design theorist and principal of Lorraine Wild Design in Los Angeles
• Friday, February 21 — Lebbeus Woods, architect, educator, theorist and director of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA) in New York
• Tuesday, March 11 — Julia Czerniak, professor and architect and landscape architect, Syracuse University School of Architecture
• Tuesday, April 1 — Michael Rotondi, principal of RoTo Architects in Los Angeles

This marks the fourth year that Woodbury and Toyota Motor Sales USA have hosted the lecture series. For more information, please call 818.767.0888

Founded in 1884, Woodbury University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Southern California. An accredited, nonprofit university, Woodbury is located on a 22-acre residential campus in Burbank and offers bachelor's degrees from the School of Architecture and Design, Business and Management, and Arts and Sciences. Woodbury also offers a master of business administration as well as weekend and evening study for working adults. A San Diego campus was established in 1998 to offer bachelor of architecture degrees.