Landscape Department Colloquium: “Environment, Engineering, Landscape”
Landscape architecture has historically enjoyed a porous border with disciplines that describe, act upon, and…
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Lecture: Renée Daoust, “From the City to the Object”
As a multidisciplinary firm actively involved in the fields of architecture and urban design throughout…
LatinGSD Lecture: Filipe Balestra and Andres Gutierrez, “Parallel Practices”
Two young emergent practices using alternative strategies for spreading design reach. Urban Nouvau + The…
Lecture: Giancarlo Mazzanti, “Operations and Social Actions”
Giancarlo Mazzanti (1963, Barranquilla, Colombia) is an Architect of the Javeriana University, Bogotá – Colombia…
Harvard East Asia Urban Forum: “Growth vs. Development: New Urbanization in China”
Speaker: Prof. Yifan Yu With a French PH.D degree (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en…
Tadashi Yanai, “Design + Management = Innovation”
Tadashi Yanai studied economics and political science before turning to retailing. From a single UNIQLO…
GreeceGSD Lecture: Irena Sakellaridou
Irena Sakellaridou holds a Dipl in Architecture from AUTh., a MArch from the University of British…
LatinGSD Lecture: Mauricio Rocha, “Work and Practice”
Mauricio Rocha was born in 1965 in Mexico City. He studied architecture at “Max Cetto…
Alumni Insights Lecture: Teddy Cruz “Where Is Our Collective Imagination?”
**This scheduled lecture by Teddy Cruz, in the Alumni Insights series, was rescheduled due to…
LatinGSD Lecture: Juana Canet Arquitectos, “Designing with Nature & Participatory and Citizen Interaction Design”
Juana Canet will showcase two different lines of work developed by her own studio and…
ChinaGSD Lecture: Prof. Richard Peiser, “Reflections on Investing and Developing Real Estate in China”
Professor Peiser will discuss his experience as an investor and developer in China from 2004-2008 as…
Adaptive Design Lecture: Philip Beesley, “Radiant Soil: Diffusion and Extimacy”
If my clothing floats and ripples outward, and if fluxing heat and cold cloaks me,…
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: James Corner
Landscape architect James Corner is chair and professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of…
GSD Talks: Chris Reed in conversation with Charles Waldheim, “Projective Ecologies”
Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity of contemporary ecological research and theory…
GSD Talks: Cambridge Talks VIII: Framing Architecture; Environments, Institutions, Practices
Vitruvius suggested two millennia ago that the architect must be well versed in drawing, geometry, history, philosophy,…
Conversation: Peter Sealy, Eldra D. Walker, Christina Crawford, and Delia Duong Ba Wendel, “Architecture’s Archive”
A conversation on the usage of objects and evidence in writing architectural history. Moderated by…
Lecture: India Pierce Lee, “Clevelands Greater University Circle Initiative: Building a 21st Century City through the Power of Anchor Institution Collaboration”
Greater University Circle Initiative (GUCI) is a unique multi-institutional anchor-based partnership with Case Western Reserve…
LatinGSD Lecture: Aflredo Brillembourg of Urban Think Tank, “Lado Sur: Architecture in the Southern Hemisphere”
The philosophy of U-TT is to deliver innovative yet practical solutions through the combined skills…
GSD Talks: Jane Thompson in conversation with Alexandra Lange
Jane Thompson worked with Walter Gropius on a research project in the early 1960s and interviewed…
Grace La and James Dallman, “On Integration”
Architects Grace La (Professor of Architecture) and James Dallman engage in projects…
LandGSD Lecture: Kees Lokman, “Contested Terrain: In Search of Niagara”
“Contested Terrain: In Search of Niagara” is the third and final lecture in the “Critical Conversations: Beyond…
Gallery Talk: Matthew Allen, “Representing Representation”
Curator Matthew Allen, MArch ’10, will discuss the connection between software, representational techniques, and design…
Open House Lecture: Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks of MASS Design Group
Michael Murphy, MArch ’11, and Alan Ricks, MArch ‘10, are cofounders of MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architecture…
Practice as Project Lecture: Sheela Maini, “Strategy Design: Inside BIG”
Sheela Maini Søgaard is a partner at BIG Architecture and as CEO, is responsible for…
MDes Lecture & Workshop: Christien Meindertsma, “Pig 05049”
MDes Lecture 6:30-7:30 in Piper MDes Workshop 1:30-3:00 in Stubbins Christien Meindertsma explores…
UPD Lecture: Nabeel Hamdi, “The Art of Practice in Development Planning”
The lecture will first outline some of the key issues facing cities today, in particular…
MDes Noontime Lecture: Sam Auinger
Sam Auinger Sonic thinker, composer, sound-artist Together with Bruce Odland he founded O+A in 1989.
Lecture: Vijay Iyer, “Framed Acts: Designing Space in Creative Music”
Vijay Iyer, who counts architecture as a “recurring point of reference, as a constructed (‘composed’)…
Japanese Carpentry Tools Demonstration: Akinori Abo
A master carpenter from Japan, Mr. Akinori Abo, will hold a public demonstration of traditional…
Lecture: David Adjaye
Adjaye Associates has completed projects at a variety of scales, from residential to commercial, civic…
Innovate: Holly Samuelson “Near-Zero: Simulation-Aided Design of a Low-Energy House” and Mark Mulligan “Horizon House: A 21st-century Sustainable House in Rural Japan”
Two student teams, joined by their factuly sponsors, will present their projects. Near-Zero: Simulation-Aided Design…
AsiaGSD Lecture: Alastair Townsend, “The Upside of Down: Building a Home in Japan”
Alastair Townsend holds a diploma from London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he also…
LatinGSD Lecture: Albert Tidy
Unlike what happens in more developed countries, the Latin American practices deal with an atmosphere…
Info Session: Science and Technology Leadership Association Forum 2014
STeLA is an international student organization devoted to science and technology leadership. Improve your leadership skills, build your international networks,…
Lecture: Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates, “On Continuity”
With projects sensitive to place, experience, and environmental concerns, Sergison Bates has worked at scales…
Innovate: Josemaría de Churtichaga
Innovation occurs on multiple scales, frequently crosses disciplines, and occasionally changes lives, cities, and culture.
ChinaGSD Lecture: Prof. Jinhua Zhao, “Managing Mobility for China’s Urban Billion: Superficial Fairness, Purposeful Policy Leakage, and Interactive Policy Making”
The astronomical growth in private cars in China, which surpassed the US to become the…
Lecture: Erika Naginski, “Impossible Design: Porsennas Tomb and French Visionary Architecture”
Porsenna’s tomb is a monstrous, incommensurable object of wonder that haunted the Western architectural imaginary…
KoreaGSD Lecture: Leena Cho and Matthew Jull, KUTONOTUK
KUTONOTUK represents a unique combination of design and research excellence that is international in scope…
Lecture: Muriel Waldvogel, “Sentient Spaces”
Muriel Waldvogel is co-founder and principal of Convergeo. Her work explores the nature of multi-sensory…