All events -- except for ACT talks -- will be Room 7-431 (soon to be known as the "former AVT")
MIT DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ~ FALL 2010
DEPARTMENT, DISCIPLINE and PROGRAM GROUP LECTURES
ACT: MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (lhickler@mit.edu, 617-324-6289)
AD: Architectural Design (617-253-7791)
AKPIA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (jlar@mit.edu. 617-253-1400)
BT: Building Technology Program (kross@mit.edu, 617-253-1876)
COMP: Computation (danielas@mit.edu, 617-253-7493)
DEPT: Department of Architecture Lecture Series (617-253-7791
HTC: History, Theory, and Criticism (brearley@mit.edu, 617-258-8439)
SEPTEMBER
ACT Monday, September 13, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
Elke Gaugele, Cultural anthropologist and Professor for Fashions & Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria
“Climate Changes in Science Fashion”
DEPT Thursday, September 16, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Marc Tsurumaki
Architect, LTL Architects, New York City
“Catalyzing Constraints: Recent Work of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis”
AD Friday, September 17, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Amanda Reeser and Ashley Schafer, Praxis Journal
Mark Pasnik and Chris Grimley: pinkcomma gallery, Boston
BOS “On Curating”
ACT Monday, September 20, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
Professor Regina Maria Moeller, Artist and professor, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“Com(ment)ic: Wondersuits, Fast Skin and Poison Ivy”
AD Friday, September 24, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
STAKES “Global Critical”
Alexander D’Hooghe, Yung Ho Chang, Hashim Sarkis, Kapil Gupta, Ralph Nelson, Xiangning Li
AKPIA Monday, September 27, 6:00 pm, Room 7-431
An Evening With...
Lecture Series
Chad Oppenheim, Architect,
Oppenheim Architecture + Design, Miami
“Adventures in Arabia and Beyond”
ACT Monday, September 27, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
Professor Laura Anderson Barbata, Artist and professor, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México
“21st Century Living in the Amazon: In The Order of Chaos”
DEPT Wednesday, September 29, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Jürgen Mayer
Architect, J. Mayer H., Berlin
“pre.text/vor.wand – patterns of speculation"
DEPT Thursday, September 30, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner
Architects, Urban Think Tank, Caracas and Zurich
“Curriculum for a Crowded City”
OCTOBER
BT Monday, October 4, 12:30-2:00, Room 7-431
Martha VanGeem, CTL Group
“High Performance Green Buildings”
ACT Monday, October 4, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
Bulbo, media collective, Tijuana, Mexico
“Tierra Brillante”
HTC Tuesday, October 5, 6:30-8:00 pm, Room 7-431
HTC Forum: Clapperton Mavhunga
Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
“Mobility as Archive for Innovation: Developing a Video-Photographic Method of Excavating It”
DEPT Friday, October 8, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Architect, Foreign Office Architects, London
“Envelopes”
COMP Friday, October 15, 12:30-2:00
Phillip Anzalone, AIA, Principal, Atelier Architecture 64
Director, Building Technology Sequence / Director, Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture
Title: "Epistemological Constructions"
AD Friday, October 15, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Rodolphe el-Khoury, Architect, Khoury Levit Fong, Toronto
IN PROGRESS “Designing with Scent”
ACT Monday, October 18, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
Dava Newman, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT
“Second Skin Bio-Suit”
DEPT Thursday, October 21, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Roisin Heneghan + Shih-Fu Peng
Architects, Heneghan Peng, Dublin
“Transparency”
ACT SPECIAL EVENT Friday, October 22, 4:00-10:00 pm, Bartos Theater and The Cube (E15-Lower Level)
Sound Shapes and Ear Dances: A Tribute to Maryanne Amacher
This event honors Maryanne Amacher, a pioneering sound artist and former MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies fellow on the first anniversary of her death. Lecture by Anne Hilde Neset, The Wire magazine, London. Roundtable discussion with Neset, and electroacoustic composers Florian Hecker, Vienna; Kevin Drumm, Chicago; Jessica Rylan Piper, Los Angeles. Sonic Presentations by Florian Hecker, Kevin Drumm, Jessica Rylan Piper.
http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2010/0813_act_amacher.html
AD Friday, October 22, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
TRICKS “MIT Students Present”
Organized by Architecture Student Council
BT Monday, October 25, 12:30-2:00, Room 7-431
Thomas Schielke
“LEDs and Sustainability in Labs and Architecture: Synergy or Lighting Rivals?”
AKPIA Monday, October 25, 6:00 pm, Room 7-431
An Evening With...
Lecture Series
Saleema Waraich,
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
“Mughal Monuments and the Politics of Memory”
ACT Monday, October 25, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
To be announced
HTC Tuesday, October 26, 6:30-8 pm, Room 7-431
HTC Forum: Daniel A. Barber, Environmental Fellow, Center for the Environment and GSD, Harvard University
“The World Solar Energy Project: Maria Telkes after the Dover Sun House”
SPECIAL DEPT Wednesday, October 27, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Sponsored by The MIT Women’s League
Robert Campbell, Author and Architecture Critic, Boston Globe
Topic: Buildings/Architecture v Community
DEPT Thursday, October 28, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Philippe Rahm, Architect, Philippe Rahm Architectes, Paris
“Meteorological Architecture”
COMP Friday, October 29, 12:30-2:00 pm
Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg
Co-Founders, Nervous System
“Title to be announced”
AD Friday, October 29, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Cristina Parreno, Architect, Madrid
IN PROGRESS “Urban Recycling: Two Projects”
NOVEMBER
ACT Monday, November 1, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
To be announced
DEPT Thursday, November 4, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Sharon Johnston, Architect, Johnston Marklee, Los Angeles
“Too Young to Reason, Too Grown Up to Dream”
COMP Friday, November 5, 12:30-2:00 pm
Edouard Din, Associate Professor, Tuskegee University
“Surface Symmetries”
AD Friday, November 5, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
MIT Department of Architecture Discipline Group Faculty
STAKES
AKPIA Monday, November 8, 6:00 pm, Room 7-431
An Evening With...
Lecture Series
Talinn Grigor,
Assistant Professor of Fine Art, Brandeis University
“Reviving the Invented:
The Neo-Achaemenid from Parsi Bombay to Qajar Tehran”
ACT Monday, November 8, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)
ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"
Lauren Bon, artist and MIT alumna. Her Metabolic Studio is based in Los Angeles.
“Metabolic Studio”
COMP Friday, November 12, 12:30-2:00 pm
Neri Oxman, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
MATERIALECOLOGY Design, Principal
"Mediated Matter”
AD Friday, November 12, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Sheila Kennedy, Architect, Kennedy Violich, Boston
Carlo Ratti, Director, MIT Senseable City Lab
BOS “On Activating”
BT Monday, November 15, 12:30-2:00, Room 7-431
Christoph Buxbaum
“Passivhaus Design”
HTC Tuesday, November 16, 6:30-8:00 pm, Room 7-431
HTC Forum: Juliet Koss, Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, Scripps College
“Monumental Snapshots of a Soviet Future”
DEPT Thursday, November 18, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Lisa Iwamoto, Architect, Iwamoto Scott, San Francisco
“Synthetics”
AD Friday, November 19, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431
Michael Meredith, Architect, MOS, Cambridge and New Haven
IN PROGRESS “MOS”
DECEMBER
No lectures scheduled at this time.
