Pierre Hermé, “The Architecture of Taste,” with Sanford Kwinter and Savinien Caracostea
Pierre Hermé is widely considered to be the world’s foremost pastry…
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Charlie Hailey, “Camps: A Guide to 21st Century Space”
What is a camp? In August 2005, television news showed viewers an estimated 20,000 Katrina…
“Three Centuries of American Architecture Education: Framing and Reframing a Discipline,” Panel Discussion with Joan Ockman, Michael Hays, and Shantel Blakely
Today, at a moment when so many discourses have found their way into the design…
“Three Centuries of American Architecture Education: Framing and Reframing a Discipline,” Panel Discussion with Joan Ockman, Michael Hays, and Shantel Blakely
Today, at a moment when so many discourses have found their way into the design…
GSD Talks: Martha Schwartz and Charles Waldheim
A talk by Martha Schwartz, of Martha Schwartz Partners, in conversation with Charles Waldheim, Professor…
Nathalie de Vries (GSD Open House Lecture)
In 1993 Nathalie de Vries co-founded the Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice MVRDV in Rotterdam. The…
GSD Talks: Philipp Oswalt
A presentation by Philipp Oswalt, Director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Design Critic in Landscape…
William F. Baker, “Studies in Scale and Topology: the Structural Engineer’s Role in Creating New Architecture”
William F. Baker is the Structural and Civil Engineering Partner for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,…
Werner Sobek, “Building for the Future”
Educated as both an architect and a structural engineer, Werner Sobek has been a full-time…
Farshid Moussavi, “Style Agency”
Farshid Moussavi is Principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture in London. Her firm, founded in 2011,…
Jack Dangermond
“GIS and Geodesign in Transition” Jack Dangermond is a pioneer in the development of…
Toyo Ito, “What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake”
The Metabolist Movement in the 1960s established the foundation from which contemporary architecture in Japan…
Roger Duffy, “The Roger Duffy Studio / SOM: Imagination in Place”
None of our designs solutions are pre-determined. When we begin a project, we start by…
Kengo Kuma, “After March 11th”
The great disaster of March 11, 2011 differed from any other catastrophe since the 1755…
Günther Vogt, “City as Territory as Landscape”
Over the past ten years, Günther Vogt of Vogt Landscape Architects, Zürich, has designed a…
Daniel Bonilla, “Dissolving the Boundary”
Making reference to his projects from the past ten years, Bogotá-based architect Daniel Bonilla will…
Christian Kerez, Kenzo Tange Lecture: “The Rule of the Game”
Christian Kerez was born in 1962 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and educated at the Swiss Federal…
“On Imagination: Conversations with Architects,” Film Screening with Merrill Elam and Helen Han
This 90-minute video looks at imagination through the musings of some of today’s most creative…
“Tectonic Visions between Land and Sea: Works of Kiyonori Kikutake,” Panel Discussion with Ken Oshima and Mark Mulligan
This panel discussion addresses the work of visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake, a key figure in…
Jürgen Mayer H., “pre.text / vor.wand”
Since 1996, architect Jürgen Mayer H. (based in Berlin, Germany) has explored architecture as a…
GSD Talks: Cambridge Talks VI: “Over, Under, On: Architecture and the Earth”
Cambridge Talks is an annual spring conference sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Architecture, Landscape…
Kamiel Klaasse, NL Architects, “Mash-Up!”
Mash-up! A mashup (also mesh, mash up and mash-up) is a…
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Aga Khan Lecture: Nader Tehrani, “DA DA A NADAAA”
“The lecture will deal with the spatial, structural, and organizational contingencies that surround the topic…
Chantal Mouffe, “Democratic Politics and Agonistic Public Spaces”
A lecture by Chantal Mouffe, Professor of Political Theory and Director of the Centre for…
Chantal Mouffe, “Democratic Politics and Agonistic Public Spaces”
A lecture by Chantal Mouffe, Professor of Political Theory and Director…
Discussions in Architecture: Steven Holl with Preston Scott Cohen
This event features Steven Holl in conversation with Preston Scott Cohen, Chair of the Department…
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Catherine Mosbach, “Landscape on Trial”
“Landscape on Trial” will develop main concerns about landscape shapes. The movement…
Conference: “Landscape Infrastructure”
Landscape Infrastructure Systems & Strategies for Contemporary Urbanization A two-day symposium exploring the…
Rosalind Williams, “Infrastructure as Lived Experience”
Keynote Lecture, Landscape Infrastructure Conference. As the opening presentation for the Landscape Infrastructure…
Conference: “Landscape Infrastructure”
Landscape Infrastructure Systems & Strategies for Contemporary Urbanization A two-day symposium exploring the…
GSD Talks: Michael Jakob, “Park Bench Stories”
The GSD Talks series features visiting faculty and special guest speakers. “Small objects have…
Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Hélène Binet, “Composing Space”
“Hélène Binet has emerged as one of the leading architectural photographers in the world. Every…
Andrea Leers, “Crossing Scales/Cultures/Disciplines: a Personal Reflection on 10 Years of Design Studios”
Taken together, this series of studios reflects the investigations and trajectories within our school as…
Rem Koolhaas, “Current Preoccupations”
Rem Koolhaas will discuss a handful of interconnected topics that he is thinking…
Kathryn Gustafson, “Being Local When You’re Not”
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture practice based in Seattle, Washington. The…
“Building Geometry” Gallery Talk: Andrew Witt, Noam Andrews, Dan Borelli
The curators of Building Geometry, Andrew Witt and Noam Andrews, invite the GSD community…
Moshe Safdie, “On Invention and Fitness”
Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author who embraces acomprehensive and…
GSD Talks: Peter Walker in Conversation with Charles Waldheim
Peter Walker, FASLA, has exerted a significant influence on the field of landscape architecture over…
“Combinatory Urbanism: Thom Mayne in Conversation with Charles Waldheim”
Thom Mayne is principal of Morphosis Architects, Los Angeles. About Combinatory Urbanism:…
Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders, “Interface: Between Landscape and Architecture”
Joel Sanders and Diana Balmori will discuss their book Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, which…