Harvard University Graduate School of Design Spring 2010 Events

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Spring 2010 Events

- All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
- Unless noted, events are held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
- For more information visit the GSD Event Calendar: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/index.cgi
- Contact: Brooke King, Event Coordinator (events@gsd.harvard.edu and 617.496.2414)

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FEBRUARY 10 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Form
John Portman and Jack Portman with Mack Scogin
http://www.portmanusa.com/

FEBRUARY 17 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Infrastructure Design in the Contemporary Landscape
Marcel Smets
http://www.naipublishers.nl/architecture/Landcape_infrastructure_e.html

FEBRUARY 22 / 12:00 pm / Stubbins Room
Technology Lecture Series: Adaptive Environments
Craig Schwitter
http://www.burohappold.com/BH/PEO_PRN_CraigSchwitter.aspx

FEBRUARY 22 / 6:00 pm / Piper Auditorium
Convergent Flux: Extended Topographies and the Korean Urban Condition
Including Seung H-Sang of IROJE architects & planners, Hyung Min Pai of the University of Seoul Department of Architecture, and Yoonjin Park of PARKKIM
http://kor.iroje.com/index.php
http://www.parkkim.net/

FEBRUARY 23 / 12:00 pm / Stubbins Room
NOW? Now or Never?
Bernard Tschumi in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
http://www.tschumi.com/

FEBRUARY 23 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Territories in Motion
Henri Bava
http://www.agenceter.com/

FEBRUARY 24 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Harvard GSD Symposia on Architecture
The Return of Nature: The Apparatus of Sustainability
Mark Jarzombek, Andrew Payne, and François Roche

MARCH 3 / 6:00 pm / Piper Auditorium
A ‘CityCenter’ for the Strip
Fred Clarke, Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido, A. Eugene Kohn, Daniel Libeskind, Sven van Assche, Rafael Viñoly, Christine Williams
Sponsored by MGM Mirage
http://www.citycenter.com/

MARCH 5 / all day / Piper Auditorium
The Mathematics of Sensible Things
Conference
Including a keynote lecture by Bernard Cache, and speakers Amy Dahan-Dalmedico, Antoine Picon, and George L. Legendre

MARCH 9 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
biglittleskipthemiddle
Ken Smith

MARCH 23 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Unsmooth work
Homa Farjadi
http://www.farjadi.com/

MARCH 24 / 12:00 pm / Stubbins room
NOW? Works and Humanitarian Activities
Shigeru Ban in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/

MARCH 24 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
“Fear in a Handful of Dust”: Topographies of Accumulation, Excess and Waste
Cindi Katz
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology/environmental/ckatz/ckatz_index.html

MARCH 30 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
On How Difficulties/Contingencies Improve the Work of the Architect
Rafael Moneo
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/moneo/index.html

MARCH 31 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Harvard GSD Symposia on Architecture
The Return of Nature: The Nature of Information
Elizabeth Diller and Antoine Picon
http://www.dillerscofidio.com/
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/picon/index.html

APRIL 1 / 5:00 pm (*note earlier start time)
Science and Democracy Lecture Series: Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain?
Arundhati Roy
Organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy

APRIL 2–3 / exact times TBA / Piper Auditorium
Critical Ecologies
Colloquium
Keynote Speakers Sanford Kwinter, Piet Oudolf, Richard Wrangham
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/kwinter/index.html
http://www.oudolf.com/piet-oudolf
http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/directory/researchers/richard-wrangham

APRIL 6 / 12:00 pm / Stubbins room
NOW? Territories and Territoriality
Martha Rosler in conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
http://www.martharosler.net/

APRIL 7 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Color is not a decoration
Claude Cormier
http://www.claudecormier.com/

APRIL 8 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Harvard GSD Colloquia on Landscape
On the Future of Landscape History
John Dixon Hunt in conversation with Mark Laird
http://www.design.upenn.edu/people/hunt_john-dixon
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/laird/index.html

APRIL 12 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Architectural Agency: The Case of Elemental
Alejandro Aravena with Andres Lepik, Toshiko Mori, and Hashim Sarkis
Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
http://www.elementalchile.cl/?lang_pref=en

APRIL 13 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Harvard GSD Symposia on Architecture
The Return of Nature: The Nature of Architecture
Peter Eisenman, Sarah Whiting, and Jorge Silvetti
http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com/
http://www.wwarchitecture.com/
http://www.machado-silvetti.com/

APRIL 14 / 12:00 pm / Stubbins room
Discussions in Architecture
Peter Eisenman with Preston Scott Cohen
http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com/
http://www.pscohen.com/

APRIL 15–16 / exact times TBA / held at The Radcliffe Institute
Inside/Out: Exploring Gender and Space in Life, Culture, and Art
Conference (**requires registration)
Organized by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design

APRIL 16–17 / exact times TBA / Piper Auditorium
Cambridge Talks IV: Design Politics
Symposium

APRIL 20 / 6:30 pm / Piper Auditorium
Digital Culture in Architecture
Antoine Picon
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/picon/index.html

APRIL 21–23 / exact times TBA / Piper Auditorium
Design, Infrastructure Sustainability, and Social Responsibility
Conference (**requires registration)

MAY 8 / exact times TBA / held at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Palladio Oggi: Palladio and the Present
Symposium (**requires registration)
Organized by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in collaboration with the Morgan Library & Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects