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 Oct 02
New Voices Lecture with Summer Chen
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard 224 Western Ave, Allston MA 02134
Summer Chen recently completed a month-long residency program in Jingdezhen, the world’s porcelain capital, where she re-examined her culture through the eyes of a ceramic artist. During her talk, Summer will present images and videos of ceramic factories she visited, discuss the process of making work in Jingdezhen, talk about the work she made while she was there and share detailed information about all the residency opportunities in town. Free and open to the public; RSVP to reserve your seat.
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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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2018 Sep 07

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, “Deciduous Plan”

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

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

Through a selection of detached houses in remote natural settings produced by the studio, the lecture will examine the temporal dimension of... Read more about Pezo von Ellrichshausen, “Deciduous Plan”

2018 Jul 25
Perspectives on New Media in Museums
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Kate Lewis, the Agnes Gund Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will discuss the challenges of caring for time-based media art. Conservators must... Read more about Perspectives on New Media in Museums
2018 Jun 19

Translating into Colors: Van Gogh’s Copies after Millet

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Van Gogh Museum curator Nienke Bakker will explore Van Gogh’s copies after the French artist Jean-François Millet, one of which is now ... Read more about Translating into Colors: Van Gogh’s Copies after Millet

2018 Jun 11

Cambridge Open Archives

5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit... Read more about Cambridge Open Archives

2018 Jun 11

Cambridge Open Archives

4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit a... Read more about Cambridge Open Archives

2018 May 22

50 Years a Curator: Whatever Happened to the Art World We Knew?

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., curator of American art, emeritus, at the Harvard Art Museums, and former curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,... Read more about 50 Years a Curator: Whatever Happened to the Art World We Knew?

2018 May 21

Photography as Performance: A Conversation with John Schabel and Gary Schneider

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

To mark the opening of the exhibition Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001 (May 19–August... Read more about Photography as Performance: A Conversation with John Schabel and Gary Schneider

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