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SOM's new Schwarzman College of Computing opens at MIT

2024-05-01T14:02:00-04:00

The new home for the recently established MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been completed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

What will be a research hub for AI and other disciplines in the computing sciences offers 185,000 square feet of labs, collaborative spaces, classrooms, and faculty areas inside a shingled profile that defines two eight-story pavilions.

Image credit: Dave Burk © SOM

The structure's design was limited by an existing railroad track running along the site’s north axis, creating the need for a 44-foot bridge that connects to either volume across three levels. After entering its oak-finished triple-height lobby from a central plaza area, engineers and researchers have space to explore flexible arrangements in the offices along its perimeter on Vassar Street.

Image credit: Dave Burk © SOM

The building includes social kitchens, a large 250-seat lecture ...

SOM shares photos of new Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge

2023-12-28T18:15:00-05:00

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have shared photos of their new U.S. DOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center project in Cambridge, Massachusetts following the building’s formal public inauguration in September.

The 13-story, 410,000-square-foot building reclaims an existing 14-acre lot in Kendall Square that has been used by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) since 1970. Added outdoor public spaces replete with an undulating Maya Lin land art piece and further landscaping designed by Reed Hilderbrand surround the new design, which houses formerly separate laboratory facilities, data centers, and administrative offices into a singular “vertical campus” concept for the first time.

Image: © Dave Burk/SOM

The building is oriented to maximize the sun’s position throughout the year while also working to minimize glare and solar radiation at the east and west elevations. The Center's footprint has been reduced to 4 acres as part of a land-use agreement signed with MIT’s...

Harvard GSD details Gund Hall renovations

2023-12-21T12:06:00-05:00

Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has unveiled plans for a slate of renovations that will culminate next year and are aimed at improving the user experience for students and faculty at 51-year-old Gund Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The project will help preserve the familiar John Andrews design for new generations while serving as a model for the sustainable redevelopment of midcentury structures, the school announced. Boston-based Bruner/Cott Architects will be leading the process, leaning on its past renovation and remodeling of the Harvard Holyoke Center with Hopkins Architects that was completed in 2019.

The first phase of construction will insulate the building envelope in order to reduce energy costs and increase occupational comfort. Gund Hall’s iconic ‘trays,’ the terraced glass structures covering studio spaces will be reglazed. The GSD is testing out prototypes in Gund Hall’s 'The Pit' multiuse area and says they are especially hopeful for a hybrid vacuum-insulated ...

Cambridge researchers develop AI model to help retrofit and decarbonize housing

2023-11-02T11:45:00-04:00

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unveiled a “first-of-its-kind AI model” that can help policymakers identify and prioritize houses for retrofitting and other decarbonizing measures. The deep learning model, trained by researchers from the university’s Department of Architecture, promises “to make it far easier, faster, and cheaper to identify these high-priority problem properties and develop strategies to improve their green credentials,” the team says.

The model and wider research centers on ‘hard-to-decarbonize’ (HtD) houses that, while responsible for a quarter of all direct housing emissions, are rarely identified or targeted for improvement. According to the team, the age, structure, location, availability of data, and socioeconomic context can all lead to a house being classified as HtD.

In response, a team including urban researcher and data scientist Maoran Sun and the university’s Sustainable Design group lead, Dr. Ronita Bardhan, has developed their AI mo...

LOLA Landscape Architects tapped as designers for mixed-use Hartree development in Cambridge

2023-07-19T16:57:00-04:00

Rotterdam-based LOLA Landscape Architects has been selected by developers Landsec U+I and TOWN to design the new 48-hectare Hartree development, a mixed-use neighborhood in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The Hartree site in Cambridge.

The masterplan for the urban quarter development was designed by Swedish practice Kjellander Sjöberg Architects. The design team includes various disciplines including, urban planners, architects, engineers, and sustainability experts. The collaboration is supported by renowned architecture practices, such as Bell Phillips, Haworth Tompkins, 5th Studio Architects, Feilden Fowles, Nooma Studio, Alison Brooks Architects, Useful Projects, and Pell Frischmann.

One of the numerous basins at the current facility plant.

Hartree is owned by water company Anglian Water and the Cambridge City Council. The site is currently home to the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant, a gold driving range, and commercial buildings. The development places a strong emphasis on the...

New study finds that modular construction produces 45% less carbon than traditional methods

2022-06-15T15:03:00-04:00

Factory-produced homes can produce up to 45% less carbon than traditional methods of residential construction, according to new research by academics from the University of Cambridge and Edinburgh Napier University. A study found that two modular housing schemes designed by HTA Design, consisting of a total of nearly 900 homes, saved a combined 28,000 tonnes of carbon.

The two schemes studied were the 44 and 38-story Ten Degrees towers in London’s Croydon borough, the world’s tallest completed modular building, and The Valentine, a 10-story student housing project in London’s Redbridge. Both were completed in 2020. The report found that these developments achieved embodied carbon savings of 41% and 45%, respectively, compared to traditional construction methods.

This difference comes down to modular buildings requiring less carbon-intensive products, such as concrete and steel, and less transport for on-site workers and materials. According to University of Cambridge senior research associate Tim Forman, the study highlights the importance of quantifying carbon in construction and across a building’s life cycle. The results make a strong case for the broader adoption of modular construction, especially as it has the potential to address the challenges of the climate crisis and the shortage of housing.

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Cambridge's Ingrid Schroder is named the next director of the Architectural Association

2022-05-19T12:32:00-04:00

London’s Architectural Association (AA) has named a new leader in its search to replace ousted former director Eva Franch i Gilabert.

Dr. Ingrid Schroder is the new head of the AA beating out Berkeley CED professor emerita Jill Stoner, Clancy Moore director Andrew Clancy, and two other shortlisted candidates to helm the 175-year-old institution. Schroder will remain in her current role as director of the University of Cambridge’s M.Phil in Architecture and Urban Design (MAUD) program until officially stepping into the AA post in late August.

Schroder comes to the position with over 20 years of experience teaching at Cambridge. She held several titles (Supervisor, Lecturer, Studio Master, Professional Practice Coordinator, Academic Exchange Coordinator, and Research Group Coordinator) outside of the MAUD program, which she helped establish in 2012, and has spent time at several other academic institutions, including the ETH Zurich, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Royal College of Ar...

Vacant jewels: a closer look at Boston's empty buildings

2019-06-17T14:40:00-04:00

All over town, buildings sit empty, somehow unused despite a fierce shortage of housing and a long-running development boom that has transformed long-quiet patches of the city into hot property. [...] Some are better kept than others. Some have more prestigious addresses. But each is a puzzle unto its own.

Boston Globe reporter Tim Logan investigates the factors behind Boston's many vacant buildings — despite a booming real estate market. "Even crumbling and empty buildings serve a purpose in a new Boston where so much is shiny and fresh," writes Logan.

Valerio Olgiati offers an alternative to Harvard GSD expansion

2019-06-07T18:10:00-04:00

This article has been updated from the original version, making it more clear that this is an alternative proposal to the winning proposal by H&dM.

Though Herzog and de Meuron recently made clear that they have won the bid to expand the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the design competition entry offered by Valerio Olgiati provides an alluring alternative to what things could have been.

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His studio's Instagram recently uploaded three renders of the alternative design, including one featuring a triangular-shaped addition to the school's main building, designed by John Andrews and completed ...

The Power of the Facade: French 2D explains how facades are punctuations on the urban landscape

2019-05-24T19:03:00-04:00

What's in a facade? For those outside the architecture and design profession, the function, importance, and commonality facades play in the built environment might not be so clear. But the exterior wall, or "face" of a building, in fact, plays a crucial role in conveying a building's structural design as well as the artistic intentions of the designer.

Because the look of facades has dramatically changed over time to become more sleek and streamlined, thanks to material exploration and advances in building technology, it's easy to forget the amount of detail, and intention that goes into design.

New York by Gehry. Image courtesy of New York by Gehry

Tara Theatre designed by Aedas. Image by Philip Vile

Despite this trend, especially within bustling urban landscapes, facades create opportunities for buildings to be loud, imposing, simple, or decorative. Regardless of their visual intention, however, facades also have the power to prompt the general public to look and notice the built...

Herzog & de Meuron, Beyer Blinder Belle selected to transform Harvard GSD's Gund Hall

2018-07-26T14:04:00-04:00

Harvard GSD's iconic Gund Hall will undergo a significant transformation and expansion, the school announced this morning. Selected for the task are Herzog & de Meuron as design consultant and Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) as architect of record.

Photo courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Designed by Australian architect John Andrews (himself a GSD graduate), the brutalist Gund Hall has served as the school's primary campus building since 1972. With the expansion, the administration hopes to add new space for growth and more cross-disciplinary engagement with other academic fields and programs at Harvard, primarily with the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Photo courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Design.

"The proposed new space will encourage new forms of cross-disciplinary collaboration by creating an anchored point of intersection among the School’s current studio workspace (known as 'the trays'), facult...

UK Architecture students install giant, red picket fence in support of USSstrike

2018-02-28T14:13:00-05:00

Since last Thursday, thousands of educators and students across the UK have been protesting changes made to the pensions of university workers—a 40% cut to their USS pension scheme that the University and College Union says could cost staff up to half of their retirement income. The downgrade has unmistakably angered academics, with an estimated 45,000 lecturers across 64 universities going on a 14-day strike.

Oxford and Cambridge universities, some of the country's wealthiest and most well-established schools, have been at the center of the controversy, receiving much of the blame. The schools have backed policies resulting in the harsh cuts, and may have also had an overly skewed input in the survey that lead to the decision.

Image via Cambridge Defend Education Facebook page.

Yesterday, in response to Cambridge's unique role in the dispute, a giant, 8ft red picket fence was chained to the gates of the school, blockading the Sena...

Stanton Williams design a new extension for Cambridge's business school

2018-01-17T16:10:00-05:00

Stanton Williams completed a new design extension for the Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. The £21.5 million expansion utilized the existing site's potential in creating The Simon Sainsbury Centre. The Centre will serve as a versatile hub in providing flexible education spaces for the school’s Executive Education program.

The Centre is conceived as an extension of the original hospital replacing two former nurses' hostels. Stanton Williams' design draws inspiration from the hospital's historic masonry facade while also complimenting the adjoining 1995 John Outram-redesigned building. This approach unifies the campus's architectural identity beyond a single period style.

Cambridge's new extension is also on track to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating for sustainability. The design utilizes an innovative strategy of distributed ventilation with the incorporation of 60 small heat recovery units within the building envelope to create a ‘breathing facade’....

VeloCity win The Cambridge to Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition.

2017-12-12T05:45:00-05:00

Winning “The Cambridge to Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition” is the all-women team behind VeloCity. The competition is focused on the Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford arc, which currently is home to leading tech hubs and universities, as well as some 3.3 million people. The area is set to build on its productive history and its skilled workforce to become an area of rich success.

The VeloCity plan is commended for its reimagining of the village model, and its consideration of technology and modern needs in adapting this social structure for the 21st century. Using transport as an impetus for developing the plan, the scheme will benefit from the introduction of a new rail system for the area, which will connect towns and cities. On the smaller scale, the development will put in place a strategical network of pedestrian and cycle routes, which explore and encourage the decreased need for movements by car.

VeloCity clusters around six villages close to a new Oxford-Cambridge...

Get Lectured: MIT, Fall '17

2017-10-18T14:47:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, it's the start of a new school year. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

See what events are coming up in MIT Architecture's Fall 2017 lecture series, “Agency”.

Oct 16
Raya Ani
Homecoming Queen
6:00 PM, Room 3-133, AKPIA

Oct 17
Cole Roskam
Designing Reform: Architecture in Post-Mao China
6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge, HTC

Oct 19
Thomas Auer & Stephan Behnisch
Lost in Transformation
The Ahmad Tehrani Memorial Symposium
6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge

Oct 20
David Reinfurt
A Post-Industrial Postscript
2:00 PM, E15-001/ACT Cube, ACT

Oct 20
Boris Groys
Cosmic Imagination
6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge,...

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Fall '17

2017-09-26T14:11:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

So far in Harvard GSD's Fall 2017 lecture series, the school has featured the U.S. premier of Tomas Koolhaas' “Rem” documentary, the “New Materialisms: Histories Make Practice | Practices Make History” symposium, and a lecture from photographer Iwan Baan, to name a few. Check out what events are coming up soon.

Oct 3
Clare Lyster and Mason White in conversation with Charles Waldheim (Harvard GSD)

Oct 5
Teresa Moller

Oct 6-8
Black in Design Conference

Oct 12-13
“Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium”

Oct 16
Liam Gillick

...

New UK train station got their math inspiration wrong

2017-06-12T17:14:00-04:00

Conway confirmed what several mathematicians have noticed since the station’s unveiling: the pattern on the façade follows the logic not of Conway’s Life but of Wolfram’s Rule 30, a different cellular automaton identified by the computer scientist Stephen Wolfram.

Atkins designed £50m Cambridge North railway station, a 4,843 sq ft building with three platforms and parking, opened this May.
Its aluminum façade was inspired by The Game of Life, a cellular automaton that a British mathematician John Horton Conway developed in 1970. Conway, nevertheless, claims that he does not recognize his work in the architecture of the station.

“That’s not mine,” the mathematician said of the pattern. “I have had an influence on Cambridge, but not apparently on the new railway station.”

As a 2015 Guardian profile of Conway put it, “the Game of Life demonstrates how simplicity generates complexity, providing an analogy for all of mathematics, and the entire universe."

Get Lectured: MIT Architecture, Spring '17

2017-03-31T09:00:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter & Spring 2017

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session for Winter and Spring 2017. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

See what lecture events the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture has in store for Spring '17. Listed below is a selection of upcoming events.

Except as noted, lectures are at 6:00 p.m. in Room 7-429: 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Apr 3
Pascale Menoret
“Graveyard of the Clerics: Islamic Activism in Saudi Suburbia”

Apr 5
Gregg Mitman
“Parasites of Capital:Tales of Ecology, Disease and Landscape in a Neoliberal Age”

Apr 6
MIT Architecture Open House Lecture

Apr 10
Azra Aks...

Get Lectured: MIT City Design & Development Group, Spring '17

2017-03-01T15:39:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter & Spring 2017

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Don't miss these Spring '17 City Design & Development Group lecture events from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Departments of Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning. Listed below are upcoming events.

Mar 1
Sandro Maripellero + Linda Pollak
Wednesday Designing Practice Series
at Room 10-485, 12:30-2 pm

Mar 7
Camilo Jose Vergara
Book Talk: Tracking Time & Detroit is No Dry Bones
at City Arena, 9-255, 12:30-2 pm

Mar 15
Margarita Jover
Wednesday Designing Practice Series
at Long Lounge, 7-429, 6...

Researchers discover 'glue' that makes plant cell walls strong — foreseeing brighter future for wooden skyscrapers

2016-12-22T14:12:00-05:00

Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient paper production, according to research published today in the journal Nature Communications. The study, led by a father and son team at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge, solves a long-standing mystery of how key sugars in cells bind to form strong, indigestible materials.

"But just as this could improve how easily materials can be broken down, the discovery may also help them create stronger materials, he says. There are already plans to build houses in the UK more sustainably using wood, and Paul Dupree is involved in the Centre for Natural Material Innovation at the University of Cambridge, which is looking at whether buildings as tall as skyscrapers could be built using modified wood."

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Spring '16

2016-02-17T14:50:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2016

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

In all its colorful gradient glory, next up is the Spring '16 lecture program poster from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

**Update: Please note that Toyo Ito's lecture has been rescheduled to March 7 at 6:30 p.m.

Listed below are upcoming events.

Feb 23
Noontime GSD Talks
Innovate: Jennifer Bonner, MArch '09; Asst. Professor of Architecture

Feb 25
Jean-Louis Cohen / Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Mar 8
Discussion
Radical Practice: Julia King, Susan Surface, and Others

**Rescheduled to Mar 7
Toyo Ito

Mar 11
Doctoral Program Con...

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Fall '15

2015-09-01T15:29:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is ready for another school year. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next featured poster comes from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Their Fall '15 lecture events start this Thursday, September 3.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are selected upcoming events. Lectures are free and open to the public.

Sept 3
Farshid Moussavi / Farshid Moussavi Architecture, London

Sept 8
Charles Waldheim / John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture

Sept 10
DISCUSSION: Housing—What Next?
With Eric Bunge, Hilde Heynen, Niklas Maak, Irénée Scalbert, and others
Moderated by Mohsen Mostafavi

Sept 15
Jonathan Olivares / Jonathan Oli...

Harvard GSD to host talk on "Habitation in Extreme Environments: Alpine Shelter" exhibition this Friday

2015-02-11T18:58:00-05:00

Curated by Spela Videcnik, Rok Oman, and John T. Dunlop (Design Critic in Housing and Urban Development), the "Habitation in Extreme Environments: Alpine Shelter" exhibition currently at the Harvard GSD presents a prototypical alpine shelter that students designed in an option studio this past fall. A public lecture and discussion by Spela Videcnik will formally introduce the topic this Friday, February 13 at Gund Hall. The exhibition and lecture are free and open to the public.

Guided by instructors Spela Videcnik and Rok Oman of Ljubljana-based OFIS arhitekti, the studio focused on investigating architectural solutions and responses to extreme climatic conditions, specifically referring to the ongoing heavy wintry conditions that ravage the North region of the U.S. The students researched traditional European alpine settlements in an effort to find new architectural solutions fit for a North American context.

The prototype shelter that will be presented at this Friday's lecture prov...

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Spring '15

2015-02-03T19:19:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

The next featured poster comes from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are upcoming Evening Events only. Unless noted, lectures take place at Piper Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Times and additional details in the thumbnail below.

Feb 3
"Writing Architecture"
Christopher Hawthorne, Florencia Rodriguez, Michael Sorkin and Oliver Wainwright on criticism today; moderated by Michael Hays

Feb 5
On Dualisms
Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz in conversation with Enrique Walker

Feb 6
Cold Storage (2015) film screening + d...

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Fall '14

2014-09-03T13:20:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2014

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured! As a refresher, we'll be featuring a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Wednesday’s poster comes from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, whose Fall '14 lecture series is packed with popular speakers, conferences, symposia, talks, and a film screening.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are Evening Programs only. Unless indicated, Evening Programs take place at Piper Auditorium. Find times and additional details in the PDF or the thumbnail below.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 4
Bjarke Ingels / Bjarke Ingels Group, NY, Copenhagen, Beijing

Sept. 12-13
GSD Design Weekend + Campaign Launch
Grounded Visionaries with Jeanne Gang, Rem Koolhaas, ...

Get Lectured: MIT, Spring '14

2014-04-03T15:48:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Thursday's poster comes from MIT Architecture. Just like they did in Fall '13, TwoPoints.net of Barcelona designed the school's lecture poster once again.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

MIT Architecture still has plenty of upcoming events for April. Check 'em out.

APRIL

April 3
6:30 pm
Sylvia Lavin
Creative Space

April 4
5:30 pm
John May
Does Drawing Have a Future?

April 5
10-5 pm
Çelik Alexander, May, Allais, Eigen, Halpern, Harwood, Hunter, & Osman
The Instruments Project, Workshop IV

April 7
12:30 pm
Marci Uihlein ...

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Spring '14

2014-02-14T13:47:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Friday's poster comes from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below is a selection of upcoming evening lectures listed on the poster. Unless noted, events below will be at 6:30-8:00 pm at Piper Auditorium - Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Free and open to the public.

FEBRUARY

Feb 14
9:30 am-6:00 pm
Symposium: "What Criticism?"
at Stubbins (Room 112) - Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street

Feb 18
Lecture: Manuel Castells :"The Space of Autonomy: Cyberspace and Urban Space in Networked Socia...

Get Lectured: MIT Fall '13

2013-10-18T15:13:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we recently launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

It's finally Friday! Let's finish this week with the bountiful list of Fall '13 lecture events from MIT Architecture.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Unless noted**, "Discourses in Practice" lectures will be on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in the Long Lounge 7-429.

As a Friday bonus, the list below includes events under MIT Architecture's Discipline Groups: Architectural Design (AD); Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA); and Center for Advanced Urbanism (CAU) seminars. Events organized by category.

"DISCOURSES IN PRACTICE" SERIES

SEPTEMBER

September 13
Tatiana Bi...

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD Fall '13

2013-09-05T12:31:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

With the start of a new academic school year comes a new series of lectures. Here on Archinect, we'll begin featuring a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. So check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for this season's lectures you don't want to miss.

We'll be starting out with Archinect's Most Followed Schools profiles. Our first list for today is from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are Lecture/Discussion events only. All events are free and open to the public.

SEPTEMBER

September 3
6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design Award Ceremony

September 4
6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Eduardo Souto de Moura

September 5
12:00 pm-2:00 pm
GSD Talks: Alejandro Echeverri

6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Gallery Talk: Ciro Najle with Iñaki Abalos and E...

Cambridge University Announces Preferred Architects for North West Cambridge Development

2012-07-18T13:38:00-04:00

England's prestigious Cambridge University yesterday announced the team of preferred architects for a first phase of its proposed development at North West Cambridge. The architects were selected following an architectural competition and include established UK and international practices, as well as local and smaller, new practices.

Archinect - News

SOM's new Schwarzman College of Computing opens at MIT

SOM shares photos of new Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge

Harvard GSD details Gund Hall renovations

Cambridge researchers develop AI model to help retrofit and decarbonize housing

LOLA Landscape Architects tapped as designers for mixed-use Hartree development in Cambridge

New study finds that modular construction produces 45% less carbon than traditional methods

Cambridge's Ingrid Schroder is named the next director of the Architectural Association

Vacant jewels: a closer look at Boston's empty buildings

Valerio Olgiati offers an alternative to Harvard GSD expansion

The Power of the Facade: French 2D explains how facades are punctuations on the urban landscape

Herzog & de Meuron, Beyer Blinder Belle selected to transform Harvard GSD's Gund Hall

UK Architecture students install giant, red picket fence in support of USSstrike

​Stanton Williams design a new extension for Cambridge's business school​

VeloCity win The Cambridge to Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition.

Get Lectured: MIT, Fall '17

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Fall '17

New UK train station got their math inspiration wrong

Get Lectured: MIT Architecture, Spring '17

Get Lectured: MIT City Design & Development Group, Spring '17

Researchers discover 'glue' that makes plant cell walls strong — foreseeing brighter future for wooden skyscrapers

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Spring '16

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Fall '15

Harvard GSD to host talk on "Habitation in Extreme Environments: Alpine Shelter" exhibition this Friday

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Spring '15

Get Lectured: Harvard GSD, Fall '14

Get Lectured: MIT, Spring '14

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Get Lectured: Harvard GSD Fall '13

Cambridge University Announces Preferred Architects for North West Cambridge Development

Stanton Williams design a new extension for Cambridge's business school