Film screening of Jill Magid's The Proposal, followed by discussion with Caroline A. Jones, Timothy Hyde, and Ana Miljacki.
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Lectures (archive)
Feb 10, 2020 - 4:30pm
E15-070 Bartos Theater
Feb 10, 2020 - 6:00pm
3-133
This presentation examines the relationship between palace building and poetry writing at Samarra, the capital of the Abbasid Empire in Iraq from 836 to 892 CE. Unusually, Samarra’s palaces became the subject of a number of poems written by the most talented court poets of the day. These architectural poems, consisting of twenty to forty lines written in the idiom of the classical Arabic ode, were lauded at the time of their composition as excellent examples of the poetic craft.
Feb 13, 2020 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of in-completion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, nARCHITECTS argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived—or in the architects’ words, Almost Buildings.
Feb 20, 2020 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Image courtesy of RICA*Studio
Feb 20, 2020 - 6:00pm
3-133
This talk and open discussion is taken from Stewart's new study, The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2020). There she traces, from classical texts to twentieth-century monuments, the Western fascination with ruins and asks why, paradoxically, ruins and ruination have became central to our aesthetics, including the practices of painters, print-makers, poets, and architectural theorists.
Feb 24, 2020 - 6:00pm
3-133
Lecture to be followed by a panel discussion with Aga Khan Professors: From Harvard, Gülru Necipoğlu; and from MIT, Nasser Rabbat and James Wescoat.
Feb 27, 2020 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Mar 2, 2020 - 12:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Building Technology Group | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
12:30 pm, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Mar 2, 2020 - 6:00pm
E15-001 Cube
Lecture followed by discussion with Renée Green and David Joselit.
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Mar 3, 2020 - 6:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:30 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Organized by the Critical Broadcasting Lab
Mar 5, 2020 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:00pm, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Organized by Associate Professor Rafi Segal
Mar 13, 2020 - 5:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
***Canceled***
Computation Group Spring 2020 Lectures
Mar 16, 2020 - 6:00pm
3-133
***Canceled***
Mar 19, 2020 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
***Canceled***
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
Mar 30, 2020 - 12:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
***Canceled***
Building Technology Group | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
Apr 2, 2020 - 6:00pm
E14, 6th Floor, MIT Media Lab
***Canceled/Postponed***
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
"Urban Plans in Progress," Christine Binswanger, Senior Partner at Herzog & de Meuron
6:00 pm, MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor
Apr 3, 2020 - 5:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
***Canceled/Postponed***
Computation Group Spring 2020 Lectures
5:00 pm, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Apr 7, 2020 - 6:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
***Canceled/Postponed***
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Organized by the Critical Broadcasting Lab
Apr 13, 2020 - 6:00pm
3-133
***Canceled/Postponed***
Apr 14, 2020 - 6:00pm
7-429 Long Lounge
No event has given “democracy” a worse name than the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 with the pretext of bringing democracy to Iraq. Since then, more controversies have obstructed Iraq’s right to heal from conflict.
Apr 16, 2020 - 6:00pm
10-250
***Canceled/Postponed***
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lectures Series
6:00 pm, 10-250
30th Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture
Photograph by Kristian Ridder-Nielsen, Courtesy of OMA
Apr 16, 2020 - 6:00pm
This lecture will be held online. Details forthcoming.
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:00 PM EST. This lecture will be held online. Details forthcoming.
Apr 17, 2020 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Computation Group Spring 2020 Lecture Series
5:00 pm, Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Apr 23, 2020 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
***Canceled/Postponed***
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lecture Series
6:00 pm, Room 7-429/ Long Lounge
Apr 30, 2020 - 6:00pm
online, details forthcoming
MIT Architecture | Spring 2020 Lectures Series
"Informal to Formal," Reflecting on ten years of Leong Leong's practice and the studio's ongoing research into informal and formal collectivities.
Chris Leong, LEONG LEONG
6:00 PM EST. This lecture will be held online. Link and details forthcoming.
Organized by the MIT NOMAS Chapter
May 4, 2020 - 12:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
***Canceled***
Building Technology Group Spring 2020 Lectures
May 4, 2020 - 6:00pm
3-133
May 4, 2020 - 6:00pm
E15-001 Cube
Lecture followed by discussion with Jesal Kapadia.
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May 5, 2020 - 6:00pm
7-429 Long Lounge
This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines how cotton materially influenced the way black bodies were seen, and how black Americans saw themselves, as both enslaved and free Americans.