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    • Green Urbanism: Regenerating the Post-Industrial City

      October 10: Lunchtime Talk co-organized by Green GSD and TransUrban

      12:30-1:30pm

      Portico Rooms 122 & 123

      Professor Steffen Lehmann (Sydney - Berlin)

      Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development in Asia and the Pacific

      *Green Urbanism: Regenerating the Post-industrial City*

      Steffen will present his research in sustainable cities and talk about the design work he has been carrying out with his architecture students:

      City Campus and Port City.

      How can we transform and future-proof our cities through strategies of architectural and urban design?
      Steffen will present sustainable strategies for the urban regeneration of post-industrial cities and the principles of *Green Urbanism*.

      For more information visit: Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney - Berlin)

      For event details contact: Sean Corriel (scorriel@gsd.harvard.edu)

        12:30pm - 1:30pm ·   Portico 123, Gund Hall

    • Green Urbanism: Regenerating the Post-Industrial City

      October 10: Lunchtime Talk co-organized by Green GSD and TransUrban

      12:30-1:30pm

      Portico Rooms 122 & 123

      Professor Steffen Lehmann (Sydney - Berlin)

      Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development in Asia and the Pacific

      *Green Urbanism: Regenerating the Post-industrial City*

      Steffen will present his research in sustainable cities and talk about the design work he has been carrying out with his architecture students:

      City Campus and Port City.

      How can we transform and future-proof our cities through strategies of architectural and urban design?
      Steffen will present sustainable strategies for the urban regeneration of post-industrial cities and the principles of *Green Urbanism*.

      For more information visit: Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney - Berlin)

      For event details contact: Sean Corriel (scorriel@gsd.harvard.edu)

        12:30pm - 1:30pm ·   Portico 122, Gund Hall

    • "Deathbowl to Downtown: The Evolution of Skateboarding in New York City," Film Screening and Conversation with Co-Directors Buddy Nichols and Rick Charnoski

      Film screening and conversation with co-directors Coan "Buddy" Nichols and Rick Charnoski
      Moderated by Jerold Kayden, Co-Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design

      "Deathbowl to Downtown" chronicles four decades of life in New York City and showcases the emergence and influence of the urban skateboarding scene as it evolved in the gritty streets of the five boroughs. With narration by Chloe Sevigny and musical tracks provided by the Beastie Boys, Drunk Injuns, Minor Threat, Eric B. & Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan and the Talking Heads, among others, "Deathbowl to Downtown" is the first feature length film to show the rise of skateboarding from a New Yorker's perspective.

      Scripted by Jocko Weyland (author of The Answer is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World), "Deathbowl to Downtown" traces the untold and historically rich story of how skateboarding evolved in New York City, beginning in the mid 1970's with a group of skaters known as the Zoo York Crew and then developed into its present day form. "Deathbowl to Downtown" shows how New York skaters made due with the harsh realities of the city's urban landscape and unintentionally helped shape the face of modern skateboarding.

      In addition to candid interviews with dozens of prominent and influential skaters, "Deathbowl to Downtown" also features architects and scholars, who shed light on how the city's urban planning unknowingly led to the development of terrain that was quickly adapted by skateboarders looking for their own version of the California dream.

      "When we first showed the film in New York, the reception we received was overwhelming. The cultural aspects of skateboarding we explore in the film make it something that you don't have to be a skater to enjoy," noted Buddy Nichols, co-director of the film. "We've made some minor tweaks and can't wait to take it on the road to show it and skate in other cities."

      The film features interviews with:

      - Chris Pastras
      - Lance Mountain
      - Mike Vallely
      - Puppethead
      - Keith Hufnagel
      - Steve Rodriguez
      - Jeff Pang
      - Bruno Musso
      - Bill Thomas
      - Jerold Kayden (Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design)
      - M. Paul Friedberg (designer of the Brooklyn Banks)

      For more information visit: "Deathbowl to Downtown" official website

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:30pm - 9:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall

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Upcoming

  • October 14, 2008

    • Discussions in Architecture: Wes Jones with Preston Scott Cohen

      Discussions in Architecture:
      Wes Jones with Preston Scott Cohen

      Wes Jones is a partner in Jones, Partners: Architecture, a California-based architectural practice founded in 1993. Previously Jones had been the Design Partner at HHPJ, where his technologically inspired designs for completed buildings and theoretical projects received acclaim for their critical engagement with the contemporary cultural scene and their disciplinary sophistication. His eight Progressive Architecture Design Awards include recognition for the Astronauts' Memorial at Kennedy Space Center and the $180M South Campus Chiller Plant for UCLA. The work of J,P:A and HHPJ has been featured in many publications and exhibited widely. A recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture, Jones has lectured internationally on technology and the work of the firm, and has taught in the schools of Architecture at Harvard, Princeton, IIT, Columbia, UCLA, UC Berkeley, the Ohio State University, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Jones received the AB with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley in 1980, and the MArch with Distinction from the HGSD in 1983. In the fall of 2007 Princeton Architectural Press published their second monograph of his work, covering the period from 1998 to date, titled El Segundo.

      For more information visit: Jones, Partners: Architecture website

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:30pm - 8:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
  • October 15, 2008

    • Film screening + discussion with producer: "Doshi"

      HUNDREDHANDS PRESENTS
      "DOSHI"
      Film screening and discussion with Bijoy Ramachandran.

      Bijoy and Premjit Ramachandran have made a documentary feature on Balkrishna Doshi, Architect, Academician, and Philosopher. The film presents Doshi's architectural work, his role in the setting up of arguably the best school of architecture (Center for Environmental Planning & Technology, CEPT) in India, and posits these roles within the larger narrative of his philosophies on life and his relationship with people. The film is not a biopic, but a series of conversations around his projects and it serves as an insight into the way Doshi approaches life.

      About the film:
      Two monographs have been published on Doshi's work and he is regularly published in architectural magazines. The scope of these printed articles is limited in capturing the spatial and qualitative aspects of his work and do not adequately present Doshi's unique personality and his philosophy. Film is the perfect medium in which to capture architecture - it covers the spatial narrative and sequence, the quality of light and the impact of movement. It is also the best way to engage a person like Doshi. Having a conversation with him is to immediately understand his appeal and the reasons for his unique success. Not only is his work as an architect seminal but his contributions to academia through the setting up of the school of architecture in Ahmedabad and his own Vastu Shilpa Foundation are unparalleled. These successes are primarily due to his ability to communicate to and inspire the people around him, and his rigor as an architect. Both these aspects can be satisfactorily captured only on film.

      The film will not only introduce people to a truly great modern architect, but also to an evolved, cultured human
      being and help redirect our attention to the truly important questions of our time.

      His approach to the work, and the story of his practice would be great lessons for younger architects who struggle
      to negotiate the pressing commercial demands of running a practice with the "ideal" project/process. Doshi's constant search for alternative ways in which to articulate persistent themes in his work, like community, layering, fragmentation, and rootedness set him apart from many of his contemporaries, and this is particularly relevant today, where often the underpinnings of formal and spatial compositions are merely stylistic.

      He will also appeal to the non-architect as he talks about his work within the context of his philosophies about life. The film transcends the model of the architectural documentary focussing also on the person and not only on the architect. I believe his philosophy has universal appeal and his work demonstrates a way to simultaneously be modern/contemporary, local/of the place and sustainable.

      About Doshi:
      Dr Balkrishna Doshi, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of
      Architects was born in Pune at 1927. After initial study at the J J School of Architecture, Bombay, he worked for four
      years with Le Corbusier as Senior Designer (1951-54) in Paris and four more years in India to supervise his projects in Ahmedabad. His office Vastu-Shilpa (environmental design) was established in 1955.

      Dr Doshi has been a member of the Jury for several international and national competitions including the Indira
      Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Apart from his international fame as an architect, Dr Doshi is equally known as educator and institution builder. He has been the first founder Director of School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (1962-72), first founder Director of School of Planning (1972-79), first founder Dean of Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (1972-81), founder member of Visual Arts Centre,
      Ahmedabad and first founder Director of Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad. Dr Doshi has been instrumental in establishing the internationally known research institute Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in
      Environmental Design. The institute has done pioneering work in low cost housing and city planning.

      About Bijoy Ramachandran, the Architect
      Born in 1971, Bijoy Ramachandran is an architect and urban designer based in Bangalore. His firm, Hundredhands (hundredhands.com) is an internationally recognized practice and has been featured in Architectural Design (UK) magazine's survey of contemporary Indian architecture ("Made in India", January 2008). Other awards include an official selection for the Project South Exhibition and the Leone di Pietra at the Venice Biennale, 2006, and the Cityscape/Architectural Review Award in 2005. "Architecture & the City: A Bangalore Perspective", a documentary feature he made on professional practice in the city in 2005 is now part of the curriculum in schools across India. Bijoy also writes a regular column on architecture and urban issues for the Times of India group.

      For more information visit: "Doshi" film official site

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:00pm - 8:00pm ·   Rm 109, Gund Hall
  • October 20, 2008

    • Bent Flyvbjerg, "Follies of Infrastructure: Why the Worst Projects Get Built, and How to Avoid It"

      Bent Flyvbjerg
      Professor of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
      "Follies of Infrastructure: Why the Worst Projects Get Built, and How to Avoid It"

      Bent Flyvbjerg is Professor of Planning at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Doctor of Technology and Engineering (Dr.Techn.) and Doctor of Science (Dr. Scient.) from Aalborg University and holds the Ph.D. in Urban Geography and Planning from Aarhus University, Denmark. He was twice a Visiting Fulbright Scholar to the USA, where he did research at the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley and at Harvard University. He has been a Visiting Fellow with the European University Institute in Florence. Bent Flyvbjerg holds a concurrent position as Chair in Infrastructure Policy and Planning at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

      Bent Flyvbjerg's most recent books in English are Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Making Social Science Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice (The University of Chicago Press, 1998). His books and articles have been translated into 18 languages. His main research interest is urban policy and planning. He is currently conducting research on megaprojects, phronetic planning research, and the relationship between truth and lying in policy and planning. Flyvbjerg's research has been covered by Science, The Economist, The New York Times, the BBC, and other media.

      Bent Flyvbjerg has two decades of practical experience from working as a policy and planning adviser to more than 40 public and private organizations, including the EU Commission, the United Nations, national and local government, auditors general, banks, and private companies. His work covers both developed and developing nations. He has been adviser to the government of Denmark in formulating national policies for transportation, infrastructure, environment, and science.

      Bent Flyvbjerg is founding chairman of the Geography Program at Aalborg University, established in 2001. He is co-founder of the university's Program in Planning and Environment and founding director of the university's Research Program on Megaprojects. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Danish National Science Council Distinguished Research Scholarship (equivalent to the MacArthur Fellowship). In 2002, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark conferred upon Bent Flyvbjerg the Knighthood of the Order of the Dannebrog for his professional accomplishments.

      For more information visit: Professor Flyvbjerg's faculty page at Aalborg University

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:30pm - 8:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
  • October 22, 2008

    • Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Anita Berrizbeitia, "Recent Works"

      Frederick Law Olmsted lecture: Anita Berrizbeitia
      Landscape Architect, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
      "Recent Works"

      Anita Berrizbeitia is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, she studied architecture at the Universidad Simon Bolivar, received a BA from Wellesley College and an MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

      Berrizbeitia is the author of Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este 1956- 1961 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), for which she received the J.B. Jackson Book Prize in 2007. She is co-author, with architect Linda Pollak, of INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Between Architecture and Landscape (Rockport 1999), for which they won an ASLA Merit Award in 2002. She has published extensively on the theory of modern and contemporary landscape architecture.

      Berrizbeitia maintains a consulting practice, and has collaborated with several firms including Child Associates, DIRT Studio, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, and Arquitecturas Torres Nadal. She was the recipient of a Rome Prize Fellowship in 2006.

      For more information visit: Anita Berrizbeitia's faculty profile at the University of Pennsylvania website

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:30pm - 8:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
  • October 25, 2008

    • The European Landscape Convention: A Conference on its Implications for Education and Practice

      THE EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE CONVENTION:
      A CONFERENCE ON ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND PRACTICE
      Graduate School of Design
      Harvard University

      Organized by Carl Steinitz Alexander and Victoria Wiley Research Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning

      Adoption of the European Landscape Convention is causing a quiet revolution in how most European nations view, legislate, plan and manage their landscapes. Instigated by the Council of Europe, this international treaty has been signed by 35 countries and ratified by 29. It is also being seen as a model for non-European countries, especially in Asia and South and Central America. The treaty has caused major reassessment of planning practices relating to the landscape, and has focused attention on the need for the education and provision of professionals to deal with landscape issues at urban, regional, national and international scales. A significant and parallel development is the Le Notre program, funded by the European Union to improve European (and worldwide) integration of education and practice in landscape architecture. Many in the next generation of academics and practitioners will be directly influenced by the principles, policies and guidelines derived from the European Landscape Convention.

      For further information on the Convention, see http://www.coe.int/EuropeanLandscapeConvention
      and especially Section 6.

      I am very pleased to announce a one-day conference at Harvard Graduate School of Design on the European Landscape Convention and its implications for education and practice. The conference will explore the developing public awareness of landscape, and the landscape planning policies and practices now evolving as a result of the Convention. The Autonomous Region of Valencia, Spain will be a focal case study. Speakers will include:

      Maguelonne Dejeant-Pons, Head of the Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Planning Division of the Council of Europe and manager of the European Landscape Convention,

      Enrique Alonso, Permanent Councilor on Environmental Law of the Ministerial Council of Spain,

      Arancha Munoz Criado, Director of Territorial Landscape Planning for the Autonomous Region of Valencia, Spain,

      Richard Forman, Professor of Landscape Ecology, Harvard Graduate School of Design,

      Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London,

      Richard Stiles, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Vienna and leader of the Le Notre program,

      Martha Fajardo, Landscape Architect, Colombia, and Immediate Past President, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

      The conference will be held on Saturday October 25, 2008 from 9am to 4pm, in Piper Auditorium at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA. Lunch and coffee will be available at the GSD.

      Attendance is free and open to all interested persons. All attendees must register by October 15th and by email to shurley@gsd.harvard.edu

      For more information visit: The European Landscape Convention

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        9:00am - 4:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
  • October 28, 2008

    • Kathryn Moore, "Overlooking the Visual"

      Kathryn Moore
      Professor, School of Architecture, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design,
      Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
      "Overlooking the Visual"

      Kathryn Moore lifts the philosophical veil obscuring critical, artistic discourse. Questioning traditional theories of perception she builds up a sensible, pragmatic approach to design education and practice, demystifying the art of design and demonstrating the real value of design expertise. Crossing boundaries between philosophy, theory and practice it is an interdisciplinary analysis of consciousness and the creative process that is of considerable interest to those concerned with design quality in the built environment and to those striving to meet current global environmental challenges.

      For more information visit: Kathryn Moore's faculty profile on the Birmingham City University website

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:30pm - 8:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
  • October 30, 2008

    • Catherine Ingraham, "Towards a New Theory of Life in Architecture"

      Catherine Ingraham
      Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute, New York City
      "Towards a New Theory of Life in Architecture"

      When we presuppose the existence of living beings in an architectural project, we do not, typically, apprehend these beings as figural. Figuralization is a highly specific, usually mobile, manifestation of human (and animal) life that gathers its force from both biological and cultural places; in effect, it makes life sharp against its background. In fact, the human life typically presupposed in architectural work (conceptual and actual) is blurry, no matter how refined our photoshop renderings. We are still operating out of a modernist idea of programming -- even as we radically loosen the skin of architectural envelopes around living beings. This is not a trivial matter in any case, but it is now of urgent importance because life itself (animal and human) is undergoing drastic cultural and biological redefinition.

      For more information visit: Catherine Ingraham's faculty profile on the Pratt Institute website

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:30pm - 8:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
  • November 5, 2008

    • Ciro Najle, "motherhouse"

      Ciro Najle
      Principal, GDB general design bureau, Buenos Aires
      "motherhouse"

      An architect practicing in Buenos Aires, Ciro Najle is the former Director of the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Design Program and Diploma Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London, and has taught at different architectural schools and institutions worldwide, including Cornell University, Columbia University, the Berlage Institute, and the University of Buenos Aires. Director of GDB (General Design Bureau) and previously of MID, Young Architect of the Year Second Prize in London in 2001, he has practiced in Buenos Aires, New York and London since 1991. His work has been exhibited in various cultural venues including the Prague Biennale of Art and the Beijing Biennale of Architecture 2004, where he was the curator of the London Pavilion. Publications include essays and projects published in Quaderns, After the Sprawl, Oris, Architectural World, Egg Magazine, Esquire, Summa, the introduction to the 2G Monograph on FOA, the research, design and editing of 'Tokyo Bay Experiment,' and coediting of 'Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape,' together with Mohsen Mostafavi. He is currently working on his upcoming book 'Material Discipline.'

      For event details contact: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)

        6:30pm - 8:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
  • November 7, 2008

    • GSD Admissions Open House

      Open House for prospective students

      For event details contact: Jill Harrington (jharrington@gsd.harvard.edu)

        GSD First Floor


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