Events

2018 Nov 29

The Ghosts of Gombe

6:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s research site in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, left camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating at the base of a high waterfall. What happened? Drawing on his recent book, The Ghosts of Gombe...

HHF Architects Lecture

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

HHF Architects was founded in 2003 by Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler. Since its establishment, HHF have realized numerous projects in Switzerland, Germany, China, France, Mexico and the USA. The scope of work ranges from urbanism and large-scale construction to public pavilions and interior design.

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2018 Nov 27

Guest Speaker: Shirin Neshat

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Shirin Neshat‘s lecture will offer an overview of the development of her art and her ongoing multi-media practice involving still-photography, video installations, performance, and feature length films. She will primarily focus on her most recent projects, including her direction of an opera “Aida,” which was presented at the Salzburg Music Festival in 2017, in collaboration with world renowned Riccardo Muti and Soprano singer, Anna Netrebko; as well as speaking, and showing clips of her latest movie “Looking for...

2018 Nov 19

Yara Sharif, “The Not So Ordinary: Capturing Possibilities Through The Gaps”

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Dr. Sharif will be sharing a collection of the various thoughts and ideas provoked by her own journeys and narratives when she lived and worked in Palestine, and which were later transformed into projects.

The work will unpack alternative means to re-read and redraw the Palestinian landscape – from a Palestinian perspective – by stripping it off the dominant power of lines. Dr. Sharif will be using speculation – and at times...

2018 Nov 16

Accessibility & Art-Making: A Talk on Inclusivity in the Arts

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St., Cambridge, MA

A panel discussion with Professor Michael Stein, Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and one of the world’s leading experts on disability law and policy; Heidi Latsky, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Heidi Latsky Dance, a physically-integrated dance company; Tiffany Geigel, dancer with Heidi Latsky Dance; Dr. Debra Levine, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media; and other Harvard faculty. This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required due to...

2018 Nov 15

Stanislaus Fung, “Recent Projects in Rural China”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138

Stanislaus Fung is a researcher in landscape architecture and architecture who has written extensively on Chinese landscape architecture and architecture in both traditional and contemporary contexts. He is best known for his...

2018 Nov 14

The Veronica Rudge Green Prize In Urban Design: The High Line

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

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

Please join us for two days of events in conjunction with the 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, awarded to the High Line.

The events begin Wednesday, November 14 at 6:30 PM with remarks in the GSD's Piper Auditorium from Diane Davis (Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, GSD), Ric Scofidio (Diller Scofidio & Refro), James Corner and Lisa Tziona Switkin (...

2018 Nov 13

Anna Heringer, “Architecture is a Tool to Improve Lives”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

HGSD, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

“The vision behind, and motivation for my work is to explore and use architecture as a medium to strengthen cultural and individual confidence, to support local economies and to foster the ecological balance. Joyful living is a creative and active process and I am deeply interested in the sustainable development of our society and our built environment. For me, sustainability is a synonym for beauty: a building that is harmonious in its design, structure, technique and use of materials, as well as with the location, the environment, the user, the socio-...

2018 Nov 09

Conference: Disability and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives

9:00am to 1:30pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

This conference will explore the ways in which contemporary notions of disability are linked to concepts of citizenship and belonging. Leaders in advocacy, education, medicine, and politics will consider how ideas of community at the local, national, and international levels affect the understanding of and policies related to disability—and how this has manifested itself, in particular, in higher education.

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2018 Nov 08

Thomas Woltz, “Threatened Landscapes: Designed Countermeasures of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Public parks are a source of civic identity for the communities they serve – inclusivity and authenticity are crucial. Similarly, memorials are bastions of democratic exchange and act as repositories of our cultural past and evolution. Thomas Woltz will present projects from the portfolio of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) that demonstrate the power of the firm’s research-based design to reframe our relationship with civic, ecological, and cultural systems within the public realm. Lastly, Thomas will present NBW projects that...

2018 Nov 08

Exhibition Opening: Measure

5:00pm

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Anna Von Mertens is an exhibited artist who uses the structures of quilting and drawing to explore the frontiers of human understanding. Her new exhibition "Measure" explores the life and work of Henrietta Leavitt, one of the women “computers” hired to study glass-plate astronomical photographs at the Harvard College Observatory a century ago. Leavitt’s findings provided a unit of measurement for galactic distances. Reimagined in meticulous stitches and intricate graphite marks, Von Mertens examines our current understanding of the size and shape of...

2018 Nov 07

Jan Boelen, “Design as Learning”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

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

Why do design? What is it for? These are forward-looking questions for a creative discipline that seems more slippery to define than ever. In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. Learning and unlearning should become part of an on-going educational practice. We need new proposals for how to organize society, how to structure our governments, how to...

2018 Nov 07

Photographing Tutankhamun: How the Camera Helped Create “King Tut”

6:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Christina Riggs, Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

When Howard Carter found the sealed entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, he secured the services of archaeological photographer Harry Burton to document the site. Over the course of ten years, Burton produced more than 3,000 glass negatives of the tomb, its contents, and the many people—including Egyptian men, women, and children—who participated in the excavation. Christina Riggs will discuss how Burton’s photography helped create “King Tut” at a...

2018 Nov 07

Corinne Wasmuht: The Speed of Painting

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Corinne Wasmuht (b. 1964) is considered one of the most important German painters of her generation. In this lecture, the artist will discuss her work, from her early naturalistic structures of the late 1980s to more recent large-scale oil paintings, which reflect her interest in digital imagery and the anonymity of public space.

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2018 Nov 01

Open House Lecture: Irma Boom

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Irma Boom is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer who specializes in making books. After earning her B.F.A. in graphic design from the AKI Art Academy in Enschedé, she worked for five years at the Dutch government publishing and printing office in The Hague. In 1991 she founded ...

2018 Oct 29

Guest Speaker: Elisa Silva

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Elisa Silva is director and founder of Enlace Arquitectura established in Caracas Venezuela 2007. Projects focus on raising awareness of spatial inequality and the urban environment through public space, the integration of informal settlements and community engagement in rural landscapes. Public space interventions in informal settlements through participatory methodologies are also...

2018 Oct 26

How to See Architecture: Bruno Zevi (March ’42)

1:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

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

One hundred years after his birth, the prolific work of Roman architect Bruno Zevi continues to engage current problems in theory and criticism, and deserves to be revisited. From the publication of Towards an Organic Architecture, in 1945, to his monograph on Erik Gunnar Asplund published the very year of his death in 2000, many of his books have had an electrifying effect on architects and historians. Active as educator and as political activist, he was an engaged, charismatic...

2018 Oct 25

Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Michael Van Valkenburgh

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

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

Michael Van Valkenburgh is the founder of the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, with offices in Brooklyn, New York...

2018 Oct 23

Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Fritz Haeg, Nils Norman, and Julieta González

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

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

Please join us for a conversation between visual artists Fritz Haeg and Nils Norman and Julieta González, Artistic Director of Museo Jumex. They will discuss their recent project Proposals for a Plaza at Museo Jumex. Proposals for a Plaza was commissioned as part of the series Agora: Blueprints for a Utopia, and the temporary sculptural installation invites the public to imagine and...

2018 Oct 22

Guest Speaker: Marty Poirier

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Stubbins, Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

For 40 years, Marty Poirier has combined insatiable curiosity with love of community life to practice landscape architecture fused with urbanity, social purpose, and aesthetics. His designs strive to shape expressive places that people connect with.

Marty’s career is filled with assignments informed by the downtown centers in which he has lived and worked – Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cambridge, New York, and San Diego. His work has focused on places of dense...

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