Hello Archinect!
So I know I've been posting quite a bit lately, but I have two really important things to share:
1. My former PhD advisor, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, will be in town next weekend for Boston University's Architecture + Philosophy Conference, and will be joining us for an informal seminar on Sunday, April 10 before he leaves.
If you're interested and in town, it would be great to see you. (Everyone is welcome, but we're asking people to RSVP so we can order enough food). 
12:30 pm Sunday April 10 in the GSD porticoes. A light lunch will be served. Everyone is welcome. 121 Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA. RSVP if you plan to attend (you can send me a message through Archinect with your name) by April 5, so that we can order food and distribute readings. Sponsored by GSD Trays and Canada GSD, with special thanks to Boston University Department of Philosophy.
2. I just thought you should see this. This is of no relation to the seminar (...or maybe it is...?)
Thanks for reading!
Lian
This blog was most active from 2009-2013. Writing about my experiences and life at Harvard GSD started out as a way for me to process my experiences as an M.Arch.I student, and evolved into a record of the intellectual and cultural life of the Cambridge architecture (and to a lesser extent, design/technology) community, through live-blogs. These days, I work as a data storyteller (and blogger at Littldata.com) in San Francisco, and still post here once in a while.
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baby panda?
bebbeh polar beh!
Not a real one, though. I thought it was at first, but I was deceived.
Any chance of getting this recorded and posted on Archinect?
@afrdzak! Yes, I will be able to post something from this event. Either I'll do an interview with Alberto, or I'll voice-record and blog the seminar.
...Or did you mean the baby polar bear?
a bit off topic but...
what's the chances of getting a write up of the sanaa lecture?
I, uh, had some urgent eating and drinking to attend to tonight so I'll be blogging Nishizawa's lecture tomorrow night from MIT...
I was thinking polar bear, but really meant Alberto. :-)
I'm mostly annoyed that he's talking about Damasio and calling it cognitive science, while ignoring the PDP crowd (Rumelhart, Smolensky, McClelland), who in turn have a lot more to contribute to our field. Especially since they operate in between levels (complex computation, biology and perception), while Damasio is more of a neural correlates theoretician (something far simpler than what the computational guys are grasping at)..
Add to that the fact that doing your homework and actually understanding what these guys are developing has the side effect of giving you an immense array of tools that you can use both in theory and actual architectural practice...
By "he" do you mean Alberto, fluxb? Alberto didn't write the event brief. I did, on the basis of my questions and on conversations with my student colleagues here who have related questions and interests.
yes, albero perez-gomez.
i think it's sensible to assume that the event brief covers the expected content of the seminar.
Hi again, fluxb.
Of course, but what I meant is that you shouldn't take the brief as some kind of statement from Alberto, because it's not, nor are we pretending to provide absolute answers to anything. Rather, it's my attempt at articulating some questions that I (and other students) have about these issues. We are using these questions as a framework to set up a conversation with each other and with Alberto, over lunch, about questions of mutual interest.
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