Architecture Lecture Series

Spring 2009 Department of Architecture Lecture Series:

The New Craft of Architecture
Craft is as much about technology as about tradition.
While certain techniques and/or skills may fade away with the
advancement of technology, the idea of craft only evolves.
Today, craft of architecture is defined by both robotics and carpentry.

Lectures are free and open to the public. For some lectures, members of the MIT community with IDs will be admitted between 5:45-6:10pm and the general public will be admitted as space permits at 6:20pm. Room 34-101 is located at 50 Vassar Street. Rooms 7-338, 7-431, and 10-250 are located at 77 Massachusetts Avenue. An interactive map may be found on-line at: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg. Download a flyer of these lectures
(Note: different LOCATION than other lectures in series) Thursday, February 12 5:00pm Room 7-338, Wolk Gallery Opening and Reception 6:30pm Room 7-431, Panel discussion with Rahul Mehrotra, Mary Woods (Cornell) and Nasser Rabbat (MIT) Rahul Mehrotra Rahul Mehrotra Associates; MIT “Working in Mumbai ”
GOLDSTEIN LECTURE IN ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND SCIENCE Thursday, February 26 6:30 pm Room 34-101 James Carpenter James Carpenter Design Associates, New York City “Constructing the Ephemeral”
(Note: different DAY and LOCATION than other lectures in series) THE 15TH PIETRO BELLUSCHI LECTURE Tuesday, March 3 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Rafael Moneo Architect, Madrid; Professor of Architecture, Harvard “Contingency as Ally of the Architect”
Thursday, March 5 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Marlon Blackwell Marlon Blackwell Architect, Fayetteville “The Architecture of Unholy Unions”
Thursday, March 12 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Stanley Saitowitz Stanley Saitowitz/ Natoma Architects, San Francisco “Frameworks”
Thursday, April 2 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler Gramazio & Kohler, Zurich “Digital Materiality in Architecture”
Thursday, April 9 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Tony Fretton Tony Fretton Architects, London “Tony Fretton: Across Europe”
(Note: different DAY than other lectures in series) Wednesday, April 15 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Riken Yamamoto Architect, Tokyo “Recent Work ”
THE 21st SCHEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE Thursday, April 16 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Alvaro Siza Alvaro Siza, Architect, Porto “My Last Built Project”
Thursday, April 23 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Sebastian Irarrazaval Sebastian Irarrazaval Architect, Santiago de Chile “Chile-scapes: Irarrazaval Recent Works”
Thursday, April 30 6:30 pm Room 34-101 Vittorio Lampugnani ETH Zurich “The New Craft of Urban Design”