A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei from multiple vantage points. Organized by the Harvard GSD with M+, Hong Kong, and the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong Full list of speakers and full schedule to come. Image by Victor Orlewicz, Courtesy Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Anyone
Architect and designer Patricia Urquiola presents a talk at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Patricia Urquiola studied architecture and design at Madrid Polytechnic and Milan Polytechnic, graduating with Achille Castiglioni. She worked with Vico Magistretti and later as head of design at Lissoni Associati. She has received the Gold Medal of the Arts and the
Borders shape and consolidate relations between states, people, jurisdictions, political entities, and territories, and they often lie at the center of conflict between them. They are tools entangled in complex socio-political and economic ecologies. While some borders are relatively stable, others are in a constant flow. They regulate economic relations and people’s access to places,
Architect Michelle Chang presents a talk entitled "Songs You Know By Heart" at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. If the prevailing pictorial modes in antiquity and the Renaissance were tied to each era’s ideas on form and space, what assumptions do contemporary representational frameworks bring to architecture today? In “Songs You Know by Heart,” Michelle
Architect Erik L’Heureux, winner of the Harvard University GSD’s 2015 Wheelwright Prize, discusses his two years of Wheelwright Prize travel and research for his project "Hot & Wet." "Hot & Wet" traces five dense cities across the equator from the large mega-cities of Asia and South America to the mid-scale cities found in India and Africa. Each
Please join us at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for a lecture by Junya Ishigami, founder, and principal of junya.ishigami+associates, Tokyo. Born in Kanagawa, Japan, Junya Ishigami graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with an MFA in architecture in 2000 and joined the office of Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Please join us for a evening with K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory, and Andrew Holder, Assistant Professor of Architecture, as they discuss their exhibition, Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech(Druker Design Gallery, January 22 – March 11, 2018). Curatorial statement for Inscriptions: If recent theory has highlighted architecture’s turn to evident resemblance and signification, we argue
This lecture will look into the life cycle of exhibitions, institutions, and buildings through a selection of projects Esparza Chong Cuy has been involved in over the last decade. José Esparza Chong Cuy is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he recently co-organized a major collection exhibition to celebrate
This lecture will look into the life cycle of exhibitions, institutions, and buildings through a selection of projects Esparza Chong Cuy has been involved in over the last decade. José Esparza Chong Cuy is the newly appointed Executive Director and Chief Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture. He will be assuming this position on November
A close examination of architecture and design’s relationship to translations in two- and three-dimensions. Norman Kelley is an architecture and design collaborative based in Chicago and New Orleans. Founded in 2012 by Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley, their work draws on the limits between two- and three-dimensions. Results vary in scale and medium: site-specific drawings,
Separating land and water is not just an act of division; it is also an act of creation. It creates land and water from ubiquitous wetness, defining them on either side of a line. It is one of the first acts of design, setting out a ground of habitation with a line that has largely
This talk borrows the sub-title from Reyner Banham’s seminal book Megastructure, published in 1976. As a reference, Banham’s text critiques the failure of translating the energy and optimism of 60’s era civic projects into lasting institutions; thus creating fertile conditions for the seeds of our own post-ideological crisis to germinate in the capitalist restructuration of the mid 70’s. Hartt will focus on the relationship between the speculative
