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Structural Instabilities: History, Environment, and Risk in Architecture

Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Uncertainty, risk, and instability are determinant features of contemporary life. In recent years, substantive new scholarship has emerged around structural conditions of economic precarity—on both the individual and societal levels—and around the systemic effects of climatic instability, increasingly evident in storms and other events, the impacts of which are intensified by spatial and economic inequities.

Picturing Policy: How Visual Culture Shapes the Urban Built Environment

Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Images play a critical role in shaping perceptions of what cities are, have been, and should be. Documentary images, in particular, have both influenced and reflected the implementation of urban policy. In the Progressive Era, for example, Jacob Riis’s lantern slides stimulated tenement reform in New York City. In the 1930s, Farm Security Administration photographs helped justify

Fall Lecture Series: Iñaki Echeverria

Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Architect and landscape urbanist who holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation as well as a professional degree from Mexico’s Autonomous National University. He is a member of Mexico’s CONDUSE expert sustainability panel as well as a fellow at the Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México.

Gary Hilderbrand: “Visible / Invisible”

Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Gary Hilderbrand, principal at Reed Hilderbrand and Professor in Practice at Harvard GSD presents, "Visible | Invisible." Co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and the Department of Landscape Architecture.    

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