Frances Loeb Library Faculty Colloquium

Faculty Colloquium

Event poster for a Harvard Graduate School of Design Frances Loeb Library colloquium, featuring the book cover “Chinese Experimental Architecture or French Poststructuralist Theory” by Ruo Jia. Text announces a talk, “Chinese Experimental Architecture OR French Poststructuralist Theory,” Ruo Jia in conversation with K. Michael Hays, at Frances Loeb Library on Tuesday, February 17th from 12:00–1:00 pm.

Event Location

Frances Loeb Library Lobby

Date & Time
Free and open to the public

Event Livestream

Feb 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT

Event Description

Hosted by the Frances Loeb Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Faculty Colloquium Series provides a venue for GSD faculty members to launch newly published books, discuss recent or in-process publications or research in which they are currently engaged, or present their thoughts on pedagogy and innovative approaches to teaching.

Upcoming Events

Chinese Experimental Architecture OR French Poststructuralist Theory
Ruo Jia in Conversation with K. Michael Hays
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Working in Time
A Temporary Exhibition of Temporal Public Spaces
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Previous Events

AI in GSD Classrooms: Experiments in Co-Intelligence
Rachel Weber, Dana McKinney White, Alison Pasinella, and Yun Fu in conversation
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University


Jay Wickersham, Jenny French, Chris Milford, and Hope Mayo in conversation
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

The Art of Architectural Grafting


Jeanne Gang and Antoine Picon in Conversation
Thursday, March 27th, 2025

Event-Cities 5: Poetics


Bernard Tschumi and Sarah Whiting in Conversation
Monday, March 24th, 2025

Reimagining Libraries as Public Space: Design, Access, and Democracy


Shamichael Hallman with Diane Davis, Eric Howeler, and Ann Whiteside
Monday, March 10th, 2025

Panel Discussion: Reflecting on 50+ Years of iPress Publishing and Women in Architecture


Doris Cole, Mary Otis Stevens, Pelin Tan, Aliza Leventhal & Nicole Baas in Conversation Co-Sponsored by iPress
Monday, December 4th, 2024

New Design for Ancient Monuments: Bath Abbey and the Roman Baths, UK
David Fixler & Geoff Rich, RIBA AABC in Conversation
Friday, October 11th

Agonistic Assemblies (On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality)


Markus Miessen & Diane Davis in Conversation
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024

Design Thinking and Storytelling in Architecture


Peter Rowe & Michael Hays in Conversation
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024

Invisible Topographies: Exploring the Impact of the Unseen


Thursday, February 29, 2024

Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground
Yun Fu in conversation with Peter Rowe


Tuesday, February 6, 2024

One year after ChatGPT: How will generative AI shape teaching and learning?
Sebastian Schmidt Dalzon in conversation with Jose Luis García del Castillo, Stephen Gray, Curry J. Hackett, Sabrina Osmany, Carole Voulgaris, Charles Waldheim & Andrew Witt


Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Sharing Tokyo


Mohsen Mostafavi in conversation with Michelle Hauk, Seng Kuan, Ann Tanaka & Sky Araki-Russell


Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Presentation of Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy
Dean Sarah Whiting in conversation with Petar Bojanic, Snezana Vesnic & Paul Guyer
Friday, November 3, 2023

A Discussion on Data and Why it Matters in Design


Emre Keskin in conversation with Alex Yuen & Bruce Boucek


Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Technical Lands: A Critical Primer
Jeffrey S. Nesbit & Charles Waldheim in conversation with Peter Galison, Caitlin Blanchfield, Neil

Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh, and Rania Ghosn
September 28, 2023

An Asian Trilogy: Korean, Southeast Asian, and Chinese Modern Architecture and Urbanism
Peter Rowe in conversation with Rahul Mehrotra


March 28, 2023

Verify in Field
Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon in conversation with Amanda Reeser Lawrence


March 21, 2023

Typologies for Big Words


Sergio Lopez-Pineiro in conversation with Neeraj Bhatia


March 1, 2023

Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California
Edward Dimendberg in conversation with Eve Blau, Mark Jarzombek, Alex Krieger
November 18, 2022

BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions
Malkit Shoshan in conversation with Gizem Sucuoglu


October 20, 2022

Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns
Charles Waldheim in conversation with Gary Hilderbrand, Stanislaus Fung, and Bing Wang


September 29, 2022

Books, Booxhibitions, and Exhibooktions: Communication through Design
Gareth Doherty, in conversation with Emanuele Coccia and Marina Correia


April 12, 2022

Second Site by James Nisbet
With Anita Berrizbeitia, introduction by Sarah Whiting


April 8, 2022

Launch Event for Inhabiting Displacement: Architecture and Authorship


Edited by Shahd Seethaler-Wari, Somayeh Chitchian (GSD), Maja Momić

April 4, 2022

Mise-en-Scène: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes by Chris Reed and Mike Belleme
With Sara Zewde


March 9, 2022

Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation by Jill Desimini


February 18, 2022

The Kinetic City & Other Essays by Rahul MehrotraWith Sarah Whiting


November 29, 2021

The Materiality of Architecture by Antoine Picon
With Ron Witte


November 18, 2021

Radical Normal: Propositions for the Architecture of the City by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani


With Seng Kuan
September 23, 2021

Studio Ecologies: Designing Landscape Architectural Education for Unpredictable Futures edited by Rosalea Monacella & Bridget Keane
With Anita Berrizbeitia, Elisa Cattaneo, Fadi Masoud, Elise Shelley, Paola Vigano, and Jane Wolff
April 23, 2021

Immensity and American Matter Out of Scale
Launch Event for Manifest #3
April 13, 2021

New Towns for the Twenty-First Century edited by Richard Peiser and Ann Forsyth


March 16, 2021

Fusion: The Performance of Architecture
With Andrea Love, Kevin Sullivan, and Mark Lee


January 26, 2021

Architect: Observations by Toshiko Mori
With Andres Lepik and Nicholas Fox Weber 


November 20, 2020

Working in Mumbai by Rahul Mehrotra
With Eve Blau and Mark Lee


November 13, 2020

A Glossary of Urban Voids by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro


With Jill Desimini
October 9, 2020

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