34th Annual NE/SAH Student Symposium

Feb 13, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett

February 18, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 1:30- p.m.
Bush Room, 10-105
Sponsored by New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians
Free and open to the public.
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Aga Khan Program Student Travel Grant Awards

Feb 13, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett

THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE, AKPIA@MIT

2012-2013 STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT AWARDS

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT is now accepting applications for Student Travel Grant Awards for the Summer 2012 and IAP 2013 periods. Awards are open to all students in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, especially graduate students preparing theses, or undergraduate students preparing an Optional Senior Thesis.

Aga Khan Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2012-2013

Dec 21, 2011. Posted by Darren Bennett

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (AKPIA@MIT) is pleased to announce its postdoctoral fellowship program for the academic year 2012-2013. The fellowship program is intended for scholars with a Ph.D. in any field related to architecture — including architectural, art, landscape, and urban history; design, technology, computation, urban planning, anthropology, and archeology — who are engaged in research on an Islamic topic. One to three fellowships will be granted.
Sep 15
7:00 PM
CCA

Rabbat lecture at CCA to be live streamed

Oct 31, 2011. Posted by Site Admin

Learning From… Cairo: The Dialectic of History and Modernity given by Nasser Rabbat at the Canadian Center for Architecture on 15 September 2011 at 7 pm.

http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/education-events/1524-learning-from-cairo-nasser...
Oct 21
6:30 PM

Haacke: LVAC exhibition & HTC Forum

Oct 31, 2011. Posted by Site Admin

Caroline Jones, professor of art history in and director of the HTC program, has organized an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center to run October 21 through December 31, 2011. For a complete description and details on the October 20 opening reception, please see the page at the LVAC web site.
http://listart.mit.edu/node/694

The HTC Forum on Friday, October 21 features Hans Haacke in conversation with Caroline Jones and Mark Jarzombek.
Oct 01
9:00 AM
56-114

AKPIA alumni symposium

Oct 31, 2011. Posted by Site Admin

Saturday, October 1, 2011 MIT’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is hosting a symposium featuring alumni of the program. For details please go to the online flyer.

http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/30reunion.htm

New faculty publication: Aalto and America

Oct 31, 2011. Posted by Site Admin

Long anticipated and nearly a reality: Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske and David Fixler, eds. Aalto and America is in production and is due to be released in February/March 2012 by Yale University Press (London).
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300176001