2018 Oct 18
Guest Speaker: José Esparza Chong Cuy
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Stubbins, Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
José Esparza Chong Cuy is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he recently co-organized a major collection exhibition to celebrate the museum’s 50thanniversary and curated solo shows of Tania Pérez Córdova and Mika Horibuchi. Upcoming projects include a major commission with Federico Herrero, a solo exhibition with Jonathas de Andrade, and a large-scale retrospective on the life and work of Lina Bo Bardi, co-organized with the Museu de arte de São Paulo and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Prior to the MCA Chicago, Esparza Chong Cuy was...
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2018 Oct 17
An Evening with Ian Schrager
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Since the 70's, entrepreneur Ian Schrager, Founder and Chairman of Ian Schrager Company, has achieved international recognition for concepts that have revolutionized the entertainment, residential...
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2018 Oct 16
Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: Bruno Latour
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Bruno Latour is now emeritus professor associated with the médialab and the program in political arts (SPEAP) of Sciences Po Paris. Since January 2018 he is for two years fellow at the Zentrum fur Media Kunst (ZKM) and professor at the HfG both in Karlsruhe. Member of several academies and recipient of six honorary doctorate, he is the recipient in 2013 of the Holberg Prize. He has written and edited more than twenty books and published more than one hundred and fifty articles.
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2018 Oct 16
Nature vs. Fiction in Sci-Fi Movies
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Miaki Ishii, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Recent volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala remind us of how devastating these geological eruptions can be. Popular culture depictions of volcanic disasters found in movies like Dante’s Peak and Volcano can strongly distort the public’s understanding of volcanic activity and its immediate effects. As with many science-fiction films, Hollywood depictions of natural phenomena don’t always align with the scientific facts. Seismologist Miaki...
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2018 Oct 16
Dragonfly Eyes: What Counts as Art Today?
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Xu Bing is a world-renowned artist, professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), and an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Working at the forefront of Chinese contemporary art, Xu has focused with particular intricacy on the challenges of translation between East and West. This discussion will delve into the range of Xu’s art and its multifaceted impact on the global contemporary art world.
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2018 Oct 12
PRACTICE: Outside In | Inside Out
2:00pm to 6:00pm
This symposium considers discourse on contemporary issues of design practice in two parts: the external pressures of economic, environmental, and political systems, and internal forces of tools, techniques, and strategies for design. Addressing the multifaceted nature of the profession, we will explore themes for the design of practice, such as work and labor, tools and technology, and ethics and agency. The symposium highlights potential avenues for the growth and constitution of...
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2018 Oct 11
Guest Speaker: Sou Fujimoto
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido in 1971. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University, he established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. In 2018, he won two International Competitions for the Village Vertical in site of Rosny-sous-Bois and for the HSG Learning Center in Saint Gallen. In 2017, he was the winner of two International Competitions, for the Nice Meridia and the...
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2018 Oct 11
(Why) Reporting the Voices of African Women and Girls Matters
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton is an award-winning broadcaster and NPR’s Africa correspondent. An all-purpose Africa reporter, Quist-Arcton will share stories and insight from her experiences listening to African women and girls talk about the continent, the world, and what matters to them. And to us all. Following her remarks, Quist-Arcton will be joined in conversation by Marco Werman, host of Public Radio International’s The World.
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2018 Oct 09
Guest Speaker: Christopher Hawthorne
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Hawthorne is the Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles, a position appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Prior to joining City Hall, Hawthorne was architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to early 2018. He is Professor of the Practice at Occidental College, where since 2015 he has directed the ...
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2018 Oct 05
Mohammad al-Asad, “The Center for the Study of the Built Environment: A Twenty-Year Journey”
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This presentation tells the story of The Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE), an independent non-profit think / do tank. It focuses on exploring how fields connected to the built environment, including architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, heritage...
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2018 Oct 04
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Hannah Beachler with Jacqueline Stewart
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design in welcoming Hannah Beachler in conversation with Jacqueline Stewart. Hannah Beachler is a prolific production designer with an affinity for evocative designs and visuals. Beachler designed Marvel’s Black Panther for director Ryan Coogler, which just became the 9th-highest grossing film of all time. Her incredible work on the film...
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2018 Oct 02
Carla Juaçaba, “Empty Space”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The lecture will present recent projects, focusing on Venice Architecture Biennale 2018: the project “Vatican Chapels” for the Holy See Pavilion, and “Ballast” for the curators of the Biennale. The continuity of the “Humanidade Pavilion”, a few exhibition designs done in Rio de Janeiro and housing project will also be presented.
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2018 Sep 27
Visual Storytelling, Visual Communication
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
We rely on our eyes like never before: to navigate not only the physical world, but also the narrative and information landscapes we increasingly inhabit. In a fast-moving cascade of images and ideas, the author and cartoonist Scott McCloud shares why there are no neutral visual decisions, why all pictures are words, and why an era of misinformation calls for a new approach to visual education.
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2018 Sep 25
Creating a King for Eternity
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Florence D. Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology,
Brown University
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2018 Sep 20
Ranjani Mazumdar, “Slums in the Cultural Imaginary”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The slum has been a visual force in a number of city films from across the world. The use of certain geographical locations and popular discourses about crime and poverty have given shape to a diverse range of images that are at once powerful, mythic and disturbing. This event, which will kick off a two-day conference on “Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon,” will explore the perceptions that have fuelled the imagination of the cinematic slum.
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2018 Sep 19
The Open University’s Course A305 and the Future of Architecture Education
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Taking The Open University's Course A305 as a starting point, this panel discussion will interrogate the role of online learning in the future of architecture education. Participants include Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays,...
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2018 Sep 17

Lecture: Alison Brooks

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, is one of the leading architects of her generation. She has developed... Read more about Lecture: Alison Brooks

2018 Sep 14

Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The European city is a nucleus in a network of approximately 500 cities with an average population of 50.000-1.000.000 inhabitants and an... Read more about Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”

2018 Sep 13
Feminisms Now!
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
What do millennial feminists want? This panel invites rising artists, thinkers, and organizers to share their visions of gender equality for the 21^st century. Panelists will reflect on their art and activism in the service of intersecting and sometimes competing feminisms. They’ll also discuss the ways they do—and don’t—engage the legacy of their 19^th- and 20^th-century foremothers as they work to move society forward.
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2018 Sep 11
Anna Puigjaner, “Kitchen Stories”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anna Puigjaner is an architect, editor and researcher. Co-founder of the architectural office MAIO, which works on spatial systems that allow theoretical and practical positions converge. MAIO’s works have been published in international magazines such as Domus, Monocle, Plot, Frame and Detail among others; exhibited at Biennale di Venezia,...
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