Curated by: Timothy Cooke and Andrew Ferentinos
At a time when digital media in architectural representation dominates, this exhibition highlights the beauty and utility of hand drawings. Beginnings displays a selection from over three hundred drawings that were created for the forthcoming textbook, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective (Wiley, 2013) by Mark Jarzombek, MIT Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture.
Deeper History: Contemporary Considerations of Architecture's Long Past is a symposium and tribute to HTC/MIT’s investment in histories of architecture and the arts before modernism announced itself.
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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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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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