MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Global Practice

Spring 2008


By now, global architectural practice has already graduated from the initial phase of being a somewhat mysterious and glorified enterprise. The jetsetters have long become tired jetlaggers. Today, global practice seems to be just another approach to survival for many architects and firms. This new condition deserves a moment of reflection:

How has global practice impacted architecture, art, and design?

What is the current status of global practice?

How may global practice further transform the way we work and think?

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All lectures are on Thursdays at 6:30 pm in Room 34-101. Lectures are free and open to the public. For some lectures, members of the MIT community with IDs will be admitted between 5:45-6:10 pm and the general public will be admitted as space permits at 6:20 pm.

Room 34-101 is located at 50 Vassar Street, in Building 34 (EG&G Education Center). An interactive map may be found on-line at: http://whereis.mit.edu/ map-jpg.
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Thursday, February 21
6:30 pm
Room 34-101

The 14th Pietro Belluschi Lecture
Juan Herreros
Architect, Abalos & Herreros, Madrid
"Infrastructural Geography"

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

Dan Graham
Artist, New York City
"Works between Art and Architecture"

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Thursday, March 13
6:30 pm
Room 34-101

Hailim Suh
Architect, Himma Architecture Studio
“Recent Work”

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Thursday, March 20
6:30 pm
Room 34-101

Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Architect and Urban Designer, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, New York City
"Recent Work”

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Thursday, April 3
6:30 pm
Room 34-101

Seung H-Sang
Architect, Iroje, Seoul
"Landscript"

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Thursday, April 10
6:30 pm
Room 34-101

Frank Barkow
Architect, Barkow Leibinger, Berlin
"Trans/Baukultur"

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Thursday, April 24
6:30 pm
Room 34-101

The 2nd Goldstein Architecture, Engineering and Science Lecture
Werner Sobek
Engineer, Werner Sobek Ingenieure, Stuttgart
Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design
"High-Eco-Tech: Building avant la garde”

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

The 20th Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture
Kengo Kuma
Architect, Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo
"Anti-Object "

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see you there!