Discipline Group Lectures
Building Technology — Computation — HTC — Aga Khan — Visual Arts
Building Technology
BT Lectures are held in the Advanced Visualization Theatre (AVT),
Room 7-431, Mondays from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
09/08/08
Building Schools in Sierra Leone
Dr. Jonathan Bart
President of Village Hope, Inc.
09/15/08
Freedom of Formfinding
Laurent Ney
Principal and Founder of Ney & Partners,
Brussels, Belgium
10/06/08
Greening an Architecture Practice
Meredith Elbaum
Senior Associate and Director of
Sustainable Design at Sasaki Associates
10/27/08
Recent
Works
Dr. Steven Van Dessel
Associate Professor at the
Department of Architecture
and Urban Planning at Ghent University, Belgium
11/03/08
Structuring Light: Three Explorations by James Carpenter
Joseph Welker
Senior Designer at James Carpenter Design
Associates
These lectures are sponsored by the MIT Building Technology Program. Light refreshments will be served. Please contact Alexandra Mulcahy [amulcahy@mit.edu] if you have any questions.
Computation
Computation lectures take place on Fridays from 12:30-2 p.m. in Room 3-133.
10/3/2008
Onur Yuce Gun
Architect, Design Computation Specialist, KPF, NY
Systemized Unclarity
11/7/2008
Kiel Moe
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
TBC
11/14/2008
Philippe Block
PhD candidate in Building Technology, Department of Architecture, MIT
Exploiting Structural Indeterminacy: Thrust Network Analysis for 3-D Equilibrium
12/5/2008
Jenny E. Sabin
Director, CabinStudio, Full-time Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Cellness
History, Theory + Criticism
KICK OFF RECEPTION
Hélène Lipstadt and Nancy Stieber
SPEAK ABOUT THEIR WORK
October 3, 2008 @5:00PM
Grier Room B (34-401B) 50 Vassar Street
Inaugurating the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund
and Celebrating the HTC Forum
HTC FORUM
Fall 2008
Sponsored by History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art with the generous
support of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund
HTC lectures begin at 6:30 pm in 3-133
Tuesday, October 21
The Unspeakable Subject of Hieronymous Bosch
JOSEPH KOERNER
Harvard University, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Thursday, October 23
Lucrezia Borgia and the Transformation of the
Ferrarese Landscape
DIANE GHIRARDO
University of Southern California, Professor, Department of Architecture
Tuesday, October 28
Micro-Cosmic Change: World Ornaments and Organic
Rudiments in Turn-of-the-Century Histories of Art,
Architecture, and Nature
SPYRIDON PAPAPETROS
Princeton University, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, History and Theory
Tuesday, December 2
Between Make-believe and Matter:
The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe
ARA MERJIAN
Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
New York University, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Art History
Aga Khan Program
An Evening With...
Lecture Series & Other Events
History, Theory, and Design Practice
September 15
The Cosmopolitan and The Particular:
Observations on Inhabitation, Culture, and Building-form at the Aga Khan University Hospital and Medical School in Karachi, Pakistan
Daniel Gorini
AIA, LEED AP
Bio & Abstract
October 20
Current Work in the Mideast and US
Hashim Sarkis
Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Harvard University
November 17
Architecture and Cultural Significance.
The Recent Works of RMA Architects Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
Associate Professor, Architectural Design
MIT, School of Architecture and Planning
December 1
Submerged Lands:
The Public Trust in Waterfront Design from Chicago to Karachi
James Wescoat
Aga Khan Professor, MIT
December 8
Renovation of Syrian Water Wheels in the Orontes Valley
Adriana de Miranda
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Faculty of the University of Bergamo
Unless noted, events are on Mondays at 5:30 pm
in MIT room 3-133 (map).
Events are free and open to the public.
Access to the HTC@MIT Calendar
Includes all Architecture Department and Department of Urban Studies activities, as well the MIT Galleries exhibits.
Visual Arts Program
The MIT Visual Arts Program is sponsoring a cross-disciplinary lecture series THIS IS TOMORROW: Urban Utopia – Dystopia – Heterotopia featuring speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and related research fields from MIT and around the world. The complexity of “everyday life” calls for an exchange beyond disciplines. The series is free and open to the public.
Location:
Joan Jonas Performance Hall, MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3FL
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
For more information:
web http://web.mit.edu/vap/
blog http://urbanutopias.mit.edu
617-253-5229
September 29 at 7PM
Imagining Communities
Ute Meta Bauer, Director MIT Visual Arts Program; Yvonne P. Doderer, architect and urban researcher, MIT Visiting Professor in Visual Arts; Jesko Fezer, architect, collaborator with the Institute of Applied Urbanism in Berlin, Germany, and coeditor of AnArchitektur.
October 6 at 7PM
Urban Utopia?
Peter Marcuse, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, NYC; Pia Maria Ahlback, Lecturer and Researcher in Comparative literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Ahlback is a critic and writer whose dissertation was "Energy, Heterotopia, Dystopia. George Orwell, Michel Foucault and the Twentieth Century Environmental Imagination" (2001).
October 20 at 7PM
The Right to the City
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, member of Raqs Media Collective and Sarai.net, New Delhi, India, co-curator of manifesta7, Bolzano, Italy; Philippe Rekacewicz, geographer and cartographer for Le Monde Diplomatique, France and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/Grid), Arendal, Norway.
October 27 at 7PM
What City? Whose City?
Regina Bittner, curator and coordinator of the Bauhaus Kolleg at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany; Stefano Boeri, Editor-in-Chief of Abitare, Milan, Italy, teaches at the Milan Polytechnic and is a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Italy, curator and editor of The (Un)Common Place: Art, Public Space and Urban Aesthetics in Europe.
November 3 at 7PM
Mobile Life, Ghost Towns
Lukas Feireiss, Berlin, Germany, curator, and editor of Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment, and visiting professor, Brown University; AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmith University of London, UK.
November 17 at 7PM
Remote Habitats
Lucy Orta, Studio-Orta, Paris, France, and Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment, London College of Fashion, UK; Nichlas Makris, Professor of Engeneering and Director of the MIT Laboratory of Undersea Remote Sensing; Armin Linke, photographer and film maker, Milan, Italy, and guest professor at the HFG Karlruhe, Germany.
December 1 at 7PM
Urban Culture, Urban Agriculture
Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén, artists, Oslo, Norway; Nikolaus Hirsch, architect, current work includes the European Kunsthalle in Cologne, United Nations Plaza (with Anton Vidokle) Berlin, Germany, and a cultural laboratory for a new residential area in Delhi, India.
