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GSD Calendar - Fall 2009

    Spring 2009 · Spring 2010


September - October - November - December - January  

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august
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» Orient. for new int'l. students
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» Orient. and reg. for all new students
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» Studio options presentations and lottery
september
» Course pres.
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» Fall classes begin, module 1 classes begin
» FAS/GSAS classes begin
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» 5:00pm: Exhibition Opening and Reception: Distillations_Gropius_Japan_1954
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» Labor Day - offices closed, no classes
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» 12:00pm: Padraic Kelly, "Remaking the City"
» 12:00pm: A conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, author of Le Corbusier: A Life
» 6:00pm: Dr. Gilles Degois, "Le Kinkeliba: Medicine, Architecture, Public Health in a Rural Area of a Developing Country"
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» Fall study cards due
» 6:30pm: Kenzo Tange Lecture: Valerio Olgiati
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» 12:00pm: NOW? Public Projections and Instrumentations / Krzysztof Wodiczko in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
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» 12:00pm: The State of the Nation's Housing 2009: Harvard Release
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» 12:30pm: Place Makers: Planning and Developing the City
» 6:00pm: INSERT! Chinatown Storefront Library Exhibit Opening
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» 12:30pm: Place Makers: Protecting the Environment
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» 12:30pm: Place Makers: Designing through Political Engagement
» 6:30pm: The Return of Nature: Organicism Contra Ornament
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» 12:30pm: Place Makers: Telling the Story, Engaging the History
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» Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
» 8:00am: BIKE PARK[ING] DAY - HARVARD SQUARE
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» Rosh Hashanah
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» 6:00pm: Beyond no.1 - Scenarios and Speculations Bookazine Launch
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» 12:00pm: Reviving Mid 20th Century Architectural Drawings
» 1:00pm: Reviving Mid 20th Century Architectural Drawings
» 6:00pm: Utopia Across Scales: Exhibition Talk and Roundtable
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» Design Firm Leadership Conference
» 6:00pm: Design Education During Transformational Times: Professional Practice, Lifelong Learning and Applied Research
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» Design Firm Leadership Conference
» 6:30pm: Frank Gehry and Joe Brown: A Dialogue
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» Design Firm Leadership Conference
» 12:00pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series: Charles Waldheim, "ORD"
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» Yom Kippur begins at sundown
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» Yom Kippur
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» 6:30pm: Discussions in Architecture: Thom Mayne with Preston Scott Cohen
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» Deadline for non-GSD to submit cross-registration petitions to the GSD
» Last day to add or drop full-term courses
» 12:30pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series: Emily Bonafaci, "Securityscape: Implications of Security Design in Public Landscapes in Washington, DC"
» 6:00pm: GSD PhD Talks: M. Ijlal Muzaffar, "DESIGNED TRANSITIONS: Ecochard, Doxiadis, & Projects of Transformable Housing Under Military Rule in Pakistan, 1953-1959"
october
» 1:00pm: Fixing Broken Cities, the Implementation of Urban Development Strategies
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» 3:30pm: Max Bond, Multiculturalism, and Social Equity in the Built Environment
» 6:30pm: Michael Graves, "A Grand Tour"
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» 6:00pm: Multiculturalism or Cosmopolitanism? Multidiversity in the Social Sciences and in Politics / Ulrich Beck in conversation with Homi Bhabha and Mohsen Mostafavi
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» 6:30pm: Ulrich Beck, "Remapping Social Inequality in the Global Age"
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» 12:00pm: Cross-Border Cooperation on the Island of Ireland
» 6:30pm: CANCELED The Return of Nature: The Limits of Sustainability
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» Columbus Day - classes at discretion of instructor, offices closed
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» RISK and the CITY: The Case of Istanbul Workshop
» 12:00pm: Shared Legacies, Diverging Systems: Post-Colonial Approaches To Land, Housing and Planning In Ireland and Massachusetts
» 12:00pm: Lunch discussion with Fierce Pussy Artist Collective
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» 12:30pm: Rob Gogan, "Towards Zero Campus Waste: How Harvard can be a Zero Waste/Full Value Campus"
» 6:00pm: GSD PhD Talks: Ulrich Beck, "Methodological Cosmopolitanism: Imagined Communities of Global Risk"
» 6:30pm: Julia Czerniak, "Doing More with Less"
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» 12:00pm: Technology Lecture Series: Yolande Kolstee, "Augmented Reality in Art and Design: lessons learned and lessons to learn"
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» Module 1 ends
» 12:00pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series: Jacqueline Parish, "INFRASTRUCTURAL LANDSCAPES GENERATING NEW PUBLIC SPACES - CASE STUDY ZURICH"
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» Module 2 begins
» 12:00pm: NOW? Curating - 3 Models: The Retrospective, Historical Reinvention, and the Archive / Helen Molesworth in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
» 5:30pm: Building the Road to Recovery: Using Transparency and Other Tools to Ensure Federal Aid Creates Jobs and Lays a Foundation for Economic Growth
» 6:30pm: CANCELED Kengo Kuma, "Anti Object"
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» 6:30pm: Ricky Burdett, "Cities in an Urban Age: Does Design Matter?"
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» 12:30pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series: Leah Rominger, "The Montado: Portugal's Landscape of Economy, Ecology, and Regional Identity"
» 3:00pm: 2009 Real Estate Conference
» 6:00pm: BSA Exploring Design Lecture Series: Janet Echelman, "Fluid Movement"
» 6:30pm: Eelco Hooftman, "LAND / SCAPE / ARCHITECTURE"
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» 3:00pm: 2009 Real Estate Conference
» 2009 International Radiance Workshop
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» 2009 International Radiance Workshop
» 7:30pm: Club MEDINA Fall Movie Series: "Caramel," Directed by Nadine Labaki
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» 6:00pm: 10th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture: Shaun Donovan, "Toward a More Sustainable Future: Housing, Place and the New Federalism"
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» 6:30pm: Iwan Baan, "Architectural Photography and The Decisive Moment"
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» 12:30pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series: Chris Reed, "Beyond Landscape"
» 6:30pm: Josep Lluis Sert Lecture: Jerold Kayden, "The Place of Planning"
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» 12:00pm: NOW? Ideas on the Art, Science & Design of Taste / David Edwards in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
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» 5:00pm: ADD+ ARQUITECTURA_bailo+rull_BARCELONA
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november
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» 6:30pm: Margaret McCurry Lecture in the Design Arts: Patrick Blanc, "The Vertical Garden, From Nature to the City"
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» 12:30pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series: Pierre Belanger, "Maasvlakte 2100"
» 1:00pm: Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges: Homelessness
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» 6:30pm: BalletGSD Film Screenings: "Pulcinella" and "Ballet Mecanique"
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» GSD Admissions Open House
» 9:00pm: Green Design Film Series: "Koyaanisqatsi"
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» 9:00am: Preparing Urban Planners and Urban Designers for Our Urban Age: A Colloquium at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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» 6:30pm: Opening for The Laboratory at Harvard
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» 12:00pm: Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges: A Neighborhood in Providence
» 12:00pm: Akihisa Hirata, "Recent Works"
» 6:30pm: Vittorio Lampugnani, "Towards a New Discipline of Urban Design"
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» Veteran's Day - classes at discretion of instructor, offices closed
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» 12:00pm: Responsive Environments Technology Lecture Series: Hod Lipson, "Adaptive and Self-Reflective Systems"
» 4:00pm: Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City, "Sustainable Mega-Cities"
» 6:00pm: Ambiguity in Collective Re-Presentation: a talk on architectural practice in China
» 6:30pm: ALUMNI EVENT: John Stilgoe, "Landscape Nationalism"
» 6:30pm: Paisajes Emergentes_ Projects, Competitions and Methods
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» 12:30pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series + Club MEDINA: Aziza Chaouni, "Developing Infra-tectures"
» 7:30pm: Club MEDINA Fall Movie Series: "Door to the Sky," Directed by Farida Ben Lyzaid
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» 10:00am: Materiality & Construction: 5 Positions in Contemporary Swiss Architecture
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» 9:00am: Frances Loeb Library Semi-Annual Book Sale
» 6:00pm: Luminosity I: Artist's Reception for photography exhibition
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» 9:00am: Frances Loeb Library Semi-Annual Book Sale
» 6:30pm: The Return of Nature: The Sublime Plan
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» 6:30pm: Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Niall Kirkwood, "MUMBAI elegy? matters of design in an arduous landscape"
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» 12:00pm: Responsive Environments Technology Lecture Series: Michelle Addington, "Material Progeny"
» 6:30pm: Thomas Shipley, "The Unitization of space and time: Segmentation and recognition of objects and events"
» 7:30pm: Film Screening: "Dark Days" Directed by Marc Singer
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» 12:00pm: Landscape Lunchbox Series: Bridget Baines, "GROSS.MAX.: Recent Works"
» 12:00pm: GSD PhD Talks: Meenu Tewari, "Growth in the face of Instability: Exploring the historical geography of resilient regions"
» 12:00pm: Rodrigo Perez de Arce, "Doing Nothing: Play, Leisure & Urban Place"
» 5:00pm: New Geographies #2 Book Launch: LANDSCAPES OF ENERGY
» 8:00pm: landGSD Film Screening: "Manufactured Landscapes"
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» 12:30pm: Major Masterplanning in London: Two case studies with widely different constraints
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» Thanksgiving recess
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» Thanksgiving recess
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» Thanksgiving recess
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» Thanksgiving recess
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» 12:00pm: Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges: Boston Neighborhoods--Planning Challenges
december
» 6:30pm: HOK/Bill Valentine Lecture in Sustainable Design: Janine Benyus, "Borrowing Nature's Blueprints: Biomimicry and The Art of Well-Adapted Design"
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» 5:00pm: Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Raghuram Rajan, "Fault Lines: Repairing the Cracks in the Global Economy"
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» Last day of Fall classes, module 2 ends
» Last day to submit leave of absence applications
» Leaves on or before this date = one quarter tuition refund, after = no refund
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» Fall Final Reviews
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» Fall Final Reviews
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» Fall Final Reviews
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» Fall Final Reviews
» 12:00pm: Tackling the Nation's Toughest Housing Challenges
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» Fall Final Reviews
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» Fall examinations
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» Fall examinations
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» Fall examinations
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» Fall examinations
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
» Gund Hall and 7 Sumner Rd. close at 6:00 p.m., no access over Winter Recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
january
» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Winter recess
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» Gund Hall reopens
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» Martin Luther King, Jr., Day - offices closed
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» Thesis Final Reviews
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» Studio options presentations and lottery
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» Course presentations
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» FAS/GSAS classes begin
» Spring classes begin, module 3 begins
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