Michael Hays to teach free online course through Harvard

2017-01-20T17:42:00-05:00

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that K. Michael Hays will offer a free online course starting on February 28. The course will be part of the Harvard EdX platform, which facilitates MOOC’s, or Massive Open Online Courses.

Entitled “The Architectural Imagination”, the course will look at “some of history’s most important examples that show how architecture engages, mediates, and expresses a culture’s complex aspirations.”

Alongside Hays, Erika Naginski and Antoine Picon will help teach the course.

John Portman's Inadvertent Dystopian Fortresses

2015-04-08T16:54:00-04:00

“[Directors are] projecting a future by imagining how it would look in ruins,” said Michael Hays, a professor of architectural theory at Harvard. “All the flesh has been removed and you just see the architectural bones. I’ve always thought Portman’s buildings would make very beautiful ruins, because the essence of them is so powerful and so direct.”

In this larger piece about how Atlanta has become a favored setting for dystopian cinema, Harvard professor Michael Hays shares an unusual perspective on the work of John Portman as cinematic harbinger of doom.

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Michael Hays to teach free online course through Harvard

John Portman's Inadvertent Dystopian Fortresses