Public Lecture Series
 
 

Fall 2009 Department of Architecture Lecture Series:

The Big Issues

In recent decades, big issues have been often discussed and debated in the field of architecture: from city to climate change, from megaform to infrastructure, even including bigness itself. Has architecture been merely contextualized in a grander theoretical framework or is it being actually transformed and possibly super-sized by these concerns?

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.

All lectures are at 6:30 p.m. in Room 34-101, located at 50 Vassar St., Cambridge.

The symposium begins with a reception at 5:30 in Building 46, located at 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge. An interactive map may be found on-line at: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg.


Thursday, September 24

Alexander D'Hooghe
Associate Professor, MIT

“Territorial Abstraction”

    

Thursday, October 1

Charles Correa
Architect, Mumbai

“Propositions"

    

Friday, October 16
Building 46

Symposium: Roots & Bridges

5:30 Reception in the Atrium
6:30 Symposium in the Singleton Auditorium

Charles Correa, Martin Filler, Phyllis Lambert, Martin Filler;
Yung Ho Chang, Moderator

    

Monday, October 19

Ricky Burdett
Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism, ODA London
Professor, London School of Economics

"Designing the Social and Environmental Infrastructure of the Global City"

    
Wednesday, October 21

Kenneth Frampton
Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University

“Megaform”

   

Thursday, November 5

Albert Pope
Wortham Professor of Architecture, Rice University

"Energy and Form"

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Thursday, November 12

Laurent Ney
Architect, Brussels

"Freedom of Form Finding"

    

Thursday, November 19

Marcel Smets
Professor, Catholic University of Leuven

"The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure"


    
 
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