This lecture is part of the "Under the Influence" Symposium:
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Lectures are free and open to the public. For some lectures, members of the MIT community with IDs will be admitted between 5:45-6:10 pm and the general public will be admitted as space permits at 6:20 pm.
Except as noted, lectures are at 6:30 pm in Room 7-429 (renumbered from 7-431), located at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.
An interactive map may be found on-line at: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
Feb 22
6:00 PM
Long Lounge, (7-429)
Feb 28
6:30 PM
Long Lounge, 7-429
The talk will be about recent projects in context to WHL Architects' design emphasis on materials and temporal correlation.
Mar 01
3:00 PM
33-116
Darren Chang, designer at RTKL in Washington DC, will present a study that explores aerodynamic performance as a driver for skyscraper form-generation, utilizing up-to-date parametric design and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technologies. Previous scientific research has suggested strategies in modifying the form of skyscrapers for the purpose of improving their aerodynamic performance. The study has incorporated six of such strategies into parametric design tool to produce a matrix of 60 prototypes.
Mar 07
6:30 PM
10-250
The 7th Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture
Mar 14
6:30 PM
10-250
The 19th Pietro Belluschi Lecture
Mar 21
6:30 PM
Long Lounge, 7-429
Rem Koolhaas is moving to the countryside. The heroic defendant of the Metropolis, a paragon of Modernism, is perhaps warning us that there is no longer a challenge for architects in the city. Yet cities are popping up like mushrooms all over the planet, cities that accommodate nothing, cities that are left to rot, cities that are only the hope of those who commission them and not the ones that are to live in them.
Apr 04
6:30 PM
Long Lounge (7-429)
Featuring the Ism Project, the Mat Project, the Urb Project, the Alt Project, and the Rep Project, through which one will get an idea of the current concerns of his practice.
This lecture is part of the Open House for Admitted Students.
Apr 18
6:30 PM
Long Lounge, (7-429)
The Inaugural Ahmad Tehrani Lecture
Our works evoke themes and stories but the ideas we pursue do not succumb to literal translations into architecture but are transformed by the sublime and ridiculous aspects of a design practice into the architectural realm. We see this transformation as exaggeration.
Apr 25
6:30 PM
10-250
The 24th Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture
Increasingly our interests as an office lie along a certain trajectory:
-in the work of constructing symbiotic relationships between things
-in the material built manifestations of those relationships
-in the resulting constructed material presence of that exchange
-and, in the complexities of execution that are engaged in the process
- related images attached:
Skating Shelters, Winnipeg, Manitoba
OLA Church project, Vancouver, BC
Daegu Gosan Library competition, Soeul, Korea
May 02
6:30 PM
Long Lounge, (7-429)
The focus of the presentation will be the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame with a brief survey of some of Trey's significant work.
May 07
6:30 PM
Long Lounge, 7-429
“Recently we have been seeing the return to a naked architecture in many places: architecture that is stripped bare, wiped clean, anti-decorative, simplified not just in its forms but also in its conceptual machinery. It is a generalized phenomenon, from the bottom up, that makes no reference to a defined system of thought, has no putative fathers and it is not supported by any academic institution.
May 30
6:30 PM
Kresge Auditorium
Image 1: Minna-no-Mori Gifu Media Cosmos
Image 2: The Taichung Metropolitan Opera House is built by the Taichung City Government, Republic of China (Taiwan)."