The aim of this symposium is to investigate emerging themes, identifying those figures, exhibitions, editorial
projects and paradigmatic constructions that support, or that have driven, particular critical approaches.

A lecture series on post-war exchanges on educational policy and school building.

The Institute for the Study of International Expositions (ISIE) presents “New Perspectives on National Pavilions at World Fairs.” This is the second lecture in the series.

Professor Tim Benton, a widely-cited expert on the work of Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray, will present a fascinating exploration of Badovici’s approach to his work on the modest Vézelay buildings.

This Talk Series brings together renowned academics and scholars of Japanese architecture and urbanism with the intent to present an overview of representative examples of buildings and designers which prompted a radical phase of change in the construction of larger cities and new modern buildings and infrastructures in Japan from the Meiji Era to the contemporary period.  

Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city’s inhabitants.

In this online session, the hosts have a discussion on the intersections of art, urban politics and protest in the Middle East in the form of public display of sculpture and art, especially as is related to issues of displacement, dispossession, diaspora and national identities.

David Escudero’s book appeared in October 2022 by Routledge, and will be introduced at the event by Daniela Ortiz dos Santos.

The History and Theory group of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning is hosting a lecture series on “materiality”.

The anthology – marking the 50th anniversary of the seminal treatise Learning from Las Vegas – paints a portrait of Scott Brown as seen through the eyes of leading architectural historians and practitioners.

In the 2022/23 winter semester, the “Designed Orders” series will ask, in a total of six evening lectures, how design structures the interactions of various factors and what role the conditions, norms, and tools of design play.