current and UPCOMING Lectures
Ornament as Portable Culture: Between Globalism and Localism
April 13-14, 2012
"Women Making Democracy" Conference
March 29-30, 2012
Hashim Sarkis
"A Second Functionalism: Form, Flexibility, and the Architecture of Schools in the United States During the 1950s"
November 9, 2011
Han Tümertekin
"Redefining: Alteration Projects in Historic Istanbul"
November 1, 2011
Hashim Sarkis
"Bleu Outremer: The Displacement of Geography in Le Corbusier's Urbanism"
October 7-8 2011
Hashim Sarkis
"Le monde selon l'architecture"
October 6, 2011
PREVIOUS LECTURES
Hashim Sarkis
"The World According to Architecture"
May 26, 2011
Hashim Sarkis
"Working Grounds"
April 27, 2011
Ebba Koch
"The Mughal Touch on Indian Landscape"
March 8, 2011
Hashim Sarkis
"Working Grounds: Recent Projects in Lebanon"
Feb 24, 2011
Anna Heringer
"On Sustaining Beauty—Local Solutions for Global Challenges"
Nov. 23, 2010
Lamia Joreige
"Recent Works"
Oct. 22, 2010, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 5:00 pm
"The Image in Question. War-Media-Art"
Carpenter Center Lecture, Oct. 21, 2010
Alejandro Aravena
"Architectural Agency: The Case of Elemental"
April 12, 2010
Homi Bhabha
Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University
April 2, 2008, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 6:00 pm
Vladimir Djurovic: The Aga Khan Public Lecture
Landscape architect and winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2007
April 1, 2008, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 6:00 pm
Jala Makhzoumi
“Landscape Architecture and Development: Reconstructing Postwar Landscapes in South Lebanon”
October 25, 2007
The Aga Khan Music Initiative of Central Asia
"Space and Sound in Islamic Architecture and Music,"
hosted by Club Medina at the GSD, October 15, 2007
Sahel al Hiyari
Architect and winner of the Rolex Award
Spring 2007
Zaha Hadid
Architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize
Spring 2004
book talks
Over the course of the 2010-2011 academic year, and in order to celebrate the publications produced by the GSD Aga Khan Program, a series of "Book Talks" will be held with the authors of the publications. Please check this web site for updates.
Stephen Ramos
Dubai Amplified: The Engineering of Port Geography
April 4, 2011
Susan Miller
The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City
October 18, 2010
