Today

Today is the greatest day Ive ever known in MIT
難得studio有機會校外教學 一大早從North Station坐車去看Louis Kahn的 Phillips Exeter Academy Library
難得同學一起出去玩, 感覺很好
果然生活中少了 Studio 一切都很美好

晚上又到Harvard Sq. 看了Omara Portuondo的表演 Buena Vista Social Club裡面的女主唱
想不到她已經是高齡八十歲了, 這樣賣靈魂的表演
一口氣也唱了兩個小時, 又留了一個小時幫大家簽名, 很偉大
自己很幸運地能夠看到她本人還要到了簽名跟合照,
她真的算是傳奇的人物

阿... 世界上真是充滿很多美好又偉大的事情

Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day
That I have ever really known

第二學期開始啦, 時間好快

第二學期開始啦, 時間好快

從台灣回到Boston, 其實一切都很習慣,
習慣的溫度, 習慣了熬完夜瞇一下隔天繼續上課, 習慣這邊Chinese Food的味道, 習慣了禮拜天一早起床, 就走到電腦前面坐下來開始畫圖, 一路畫到晚上, 結果還是哀嚎
有時候走在Studio外的走廊, 會突然很懷念上學期, 甚至是上學期的座位, 在那間Studio的每個晚上
一開始狀況外, 什麼東西都搞不懂, 傻傻的, 剛開始被學校強暴的好慘, 連想家的機會都沒有

新學期開始了, 也許是習慣了, 步調感覺很快, 感覺像是不久之後學期又要結束了...
到頭來, 最懷念在學校的, 應該都會是最當初最懵懵懂懂的第一個學期吧

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

MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Spring 2010

MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Spring 2010



Thursday, February 18, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

Xiaodu Liu

Architect, Urbanus, Shenzhen and Beijing

“Housing/Urbanus”

Thursday, February 25, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

Stephen Bates

Architect, Sergison Bates Architects, London

“Living Spaces"

Monday, March 1, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

The 16^th Pietro Belluschi Lecture

Winy Maas

Architect, MVRDV, Rotterdam

“Housing/MVRDV”

Thursday, March 4, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

Stephen Cassell

Architect, Architecture Research Office, New York

“Architecture Research Office: Work”

Thursday, April 1, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

The 4^th Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture

David MacKay

Physicist and Chief Scientific Advisor,

Department of Energy and Climate Change, London

“Sustainable Energy – without the hot air”

Thursday, April 8, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

Dietmar Eberle

Chair, Faculty of Architecture, ETHZ, Zurich

“Housing at Different Scales”

Thursday, April 15, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

Lawrence Vale

Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, MIT, Cambridge

“Developing and Redeveloping Public Housing: The Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities”

Thursday, April 29, 6:30 pm, Room 34-101

Boston Housing Symposium: Yung Ho Chang, Moderator

Timothy Love, Utile Design

Nader Tehrani, Office dA

William Rawn, Rawn Architects

Elizabeth Whittaker, Merge Architects

Kyu Sung Woo, Kyu Sung Woo Architects