Frances Loeb Library Colloquium

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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.

Previous Events

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 Mehrotra
With 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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