About this Blog

Lectures and exhibitions, news and events, now primarily from the Bay Area! Please note that all live blogs are abridged and approximate. If you want to see exactly what happened, in many cases a video of the event is posted online by the event's hosts.

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  Harvard University
   

Authored by:

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  Lian Chikako Chang

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Recent Entries

• A Hottish Take on the Future of Environmental Technologies in Buildings
  May 30 '19
• A Conversation with Courtney Sharpe and Cara Michell, Black in Design conference organizers
  Sep 28 '15
• How Frank Gehry, who doesn't know how to use a computer, started Gehry Technologies
  May 12 '15
• Live Blog: Bethany Lang: Ugly Data Duckling: Grooming Messy Data With Policies and Procedures
  May 1 '15
• Live Blog: Kristi-Lynn Jacovino, Using Data to Influence Your UX Decisions
  May 1 '15
• Live Blog - Cole Nussbaumer, "Storytelling with Data"
  Mar 30 '15
• Live Blog: ACSA 103 Opening Plenary
  Mar 19 '15
• Live Blog: LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne at UC Berkeley
  Oct 20 '14
• Live Blog - San Francisco NERT Training, Class 2
  Oct 16 '14
• Live Blog - San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) Training
  Oct 9 '14
• Ai Weiwei is @Large on Alcatraz
  Sep 28 '14
• Live Blog: W. Gavin Robb, "Roots Run Deep: A Tomb for Manfredo Tafuri" (M.Arch thesis)
  May 18 '14
• Live Blog: Anya Domlesky, "HOT ROT: A Breakdown Manual" (MLA thesis)
  May 18 '14
• Live Blog - Marian Dörk, "From Bird's-eye Views to Street-Level Data Exploration: Taking Text for a Stroll"
  Apr 25 '14
• Live Blog - Mauricio Giraldo, "NYPL Labs Building Inspector" at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
  Apr 25 '14
• Live Blog - Robert Simmon, "Subtleties of Color" at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
  Apr 25 '14
• Live Blog - Andy Kirk, "The Design of Nothing: Null, Zero, Blank" at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
  Apr 24 '14
• Live Blog - Jen Christiansen, "Visualizing Science," at Bocoup's OpenVis Conf
  Apr 24 '14
• Live Blog - Kennedy Elliot, "Coding for the News," at Bocoup OpenVis Conf
  Apr 24 '14
• Live Blog - Mike Bostok from the New York Times, at Bocoup OpenVis Conf
  Apr 24 '14
• Live Blog - Eric Fischer, "Mapping Billions of Dots" at Bocoup OpenVis Conf
  Apr 24 '14
• Yestermorrow Design/Build for Public Interest
  Apr 23 '14
• Review - GSD's "Platform 6: A Year of Research through Studio Work, Theses, Lectures, Exhibitions and Events"
  Mar 24 '14
• Live Blog - Manuel Castells, "The Space of Autonomy: Cyberspace and Urban Space in Networked Social Movements"
  Feb 18 '14
• Live Blog - Christopher Glaisek and Bruce Kuwabara on Waterfront Toronto
  Feb 11 '14
• Review - "If You Build It," directed by Patrick Creadon
  Jan 30 '14
• Live Blog - Kyle Bergman and John Connell in conversation
  Jan 29 '14
• Live Blog - Futures Past: Design and the Machine (Mindell, Steenson, Theodore, Galison)
  Nov 24 '13
• Update - GSD African American Student Union and Dean Mohsen comment on Kanye West Visit
  Nov 18 '13
• VIDEO - Kanye stops by studio to talk about architecture with students
  Nov 17 '13
• Live Blog - Mohsen Mostafavi in Conversation with Nicholas Negroponte
  Oct 29 '13
• Live Blog - Walid Raad and Theaster Gates in Conversation, with Mohsen Mostafavi, "On Art and Cities"
  Oct 26 '13
• Live Blog - Robert Wilson, Sensory Media Platform
  Oct 18 '13
• Live Blog - Craig Edward Dykers, The Psychology of Space and the Moving Body
  Sep 26 '13
• Live Blog - Panel Discussion: Frontiers of Design Criticism
  Sep 18 '13
• Live Blog - Dorie Clark, "Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future"
  Sep 11 '13
• Useless Architectures: Interview with 2013 SOM Prize Winner James Leng
  Sep 3 '13
• Live Blog - Sylvia Lavin and Eric Owen Moss
  Aug 7 '13
• Graduation: final post as a Harvard GSD M.Arch.I school blogger
  Jun 3 '13
• New Haven/Yale School of Architecture
  May 24 '13
• Live Blog - John David Todd, "Sometimes alone. Mostly with others" (M.Arch.I thesis)
  May 17 '13
• Live Blog - M.Arch.I thesis reviews...pictures
  May 17 '13
• Live Blog - Ceri Edmunds, "Consolidation: The suburban shopping mall as a paradigm of public space."
  May 17 '13
• Live Blog - Trey Kirk, "Seattle Public Library and Courthouse"
  May 17 '13
• Live Blog - Drew Cowdrey, "Contemporary Asylum" (M.Arch.I Thesis Review)
  May 17 '13
• Live Blog - Fareez Giga, "Nonsense" (M.Arch.I thesis review)
  May 17 '13
• Live Blog - Cathleen McGuigan, "Women and the Changing World of Architecture"
  May 10 '13
• Iñaki Ábalos appointed Chair of Architecture at Harvard GSD
  Apr 25 '13
• Live Blog - Preston Scott Cohen, "Successive Architecture"
  Apr 23 '13
• Live Blog - Techniques: James Carpenter and TriPyramid, "Extending Collaboration"
  Apr 8 '13
• Live Blog - Rahul Mehrotra, KUMBH MELA: Mapping the Ephemeral City
  Apr 1 '13
• PETITION: Recognize Denise Scott Brown for her work in Robert Venturi's 1991 Prize
  Apr 1 '13
• Me-moji.com: an online photobooth and gallery to share your emoji (emoticon) faces!
  Mar 12 '13
• Co-Host 'ARCHITECT Live' with Stephen Chung, AIA
  Mar 12 '13
• Live Blog - Zaha Hadid
  Mar 6 '13
• Live Blog - GSD Alternative Careers Panel
  Feb 22 '13
• Defending Your Life--and other stuff
  Feb 15 '13
• Thesis FINISHED! (Drawn out: performances of mundane inhabitation)
  Feb 3 '13
• Thesis: Drawn out: performances of mundane inhabitation
  Jan 18 '13
• Comment: I know that Steve Jobs wasn’t God: That’s the whole point
  Nov 13 '12
• Video - GSD Conference on Design I: Liminal Objects - Design and the Museum
  Nov 1 '12
• Live Blog - Iñaki Ábalos, 'Thermodynamism and Architecture'
  Oct 31 '12
• Live Blog - Toyo Ito, "What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake"
  Oct 16 '12
• Live Blog - Aggregate and Ed Eigen
  Oct 12 '12
• Live Blog - Kengo Kuma, "After March 11th"
  Oct 9 '12
• Live Blog - Günther Vogt, "City as Territory as Landscape"
  Oct 4 '12
• Thesis: is performance in architecture like the performance of a machine, or a theater?
  Sep 22 '12
• Thesis: unaccomplished performances (video)
  Sep 21 '12
• Live Blog - George Lakoff, "The Brain's Politics"
  Sep 11 '12
• Live Blog - Jürgen Mayer H., "pre.text / vor.wand"
  Sep 6 '12
• Economic Considerations Regarding the Future of the Architecture Profession
  Jul 24 '12
• ContemPLAY: Adventures in full-scale digital fabrication (interview with Sophie Wilkin from McGill)
  Jul 19 '12
• A Single Surface, Multiple Players: Design and Construction of the Stair for the BSA Space
  Jul 17 '12
• Live Blog: Marikka Trotter and K. Michael Hays
  Apr 17 '12
• Live Blog: Scott Cohen and Nader Tehrani, "my house is better than your house"
  Apr 16 '12
• Live Blog: Margaret Livingstone, "What Art can tell us about the Brain"
  Apr 13 '12
• note to incoming GSD and Career Discovery students about housing
  Apr 8 '12
• video: Marc Simmons, you talk pretty
  Apr 6 '12
• Live Blog: One Harvard: Lectures that Last
  Apr 3 '12
• maps
  Apr 2 '12
• Live Blog: George Baird
  Mar 29 '12
• Wide Open: Young designers discuss their professional horizons and architecture’s future
  Mar 27 '12
• Live Blog: Rosalind Williams, "Infrastructure of Lived Experience"
  Mar 23 '12
• Apeira: architectural speculation
  Mar 19 '12
• Comment: GPS-based social networking, or the death of the flaneur
  Mar 9 '12
• Live Blog: Rem Koolhaas
  Mar 5 '12
• Live Blog: "Ethics of the Urban: the City and the Spaces of the Political"
  Mar 3 '12
• Live Blog: Saskia Sassen, "Immigrants and Citizens in the Global City"
  Mar 2 '12
• Live Blog: Samuel Klein, "Future of Civic Participation: Lessons from the cult of Wikipedians"
  Feb 29 '12
• Live Blog: Richard Sennett, "The Architecture of Cooperation"
  Feb 28 '12
• Live Blog: “Design Technologies as Agents of Change,” with Bock, Seletsky, Oxman, Rocker, and Bechthold.
  Feb 23 '12
• Live Blog: Philip Glass
  Feb 10 '12
• Live Blog: Tom Stocky (from Facebook) at MIT Media Lab
  Feb 10 '12
• Live Blog: Patrik Schumacher
  Feb 9 '12
• Live Blog: Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders on Landscape and Architecture
  Jan 31 '12
• Live Blog: Preston Scott Cohen speaks with Nicolai Ouroussoff about his new Herta and Paul Amir Building, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  Jan 24 '12
• final work...finally!
  Jan 21 '12
• one week left!
  Dec 7 '11
• Finals...
  Nov 19 '11
• Live Blog: Wang Shu, Geometry and Narrative of Natural Form
  Nov 5 '11
• Midterm work: systems, not forms.
  Oct 31 '11
• Live Blog: Stan Allen and Preston Scott Cohen
  Oct 20 '11
• Live Blog: The Core of Architecture’s Discourse Now: A New Generation of Scholar Critics Speak Out
  Oct 18 '11
• Kinesthesia - M.Arch.I first year project
  Oct 16 '11
• Happy Birthday, GSD! And you too, Harvard.
  Oct 15 '11
• Live Blog: Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi / Evolutionary Infrastructure
  Oct 11 '11
• On Making and Learning Architecture: a conversation with Danielle Etzler (video)
  Oct 7 '11
• Live Blog: Why Latin America, Why now?
  Oct 6 '11
• The Bridge Towers at the I-95/George Washington Bridge in NYC (Site Visit)
  Sep 30 '11
• Flatland: an installation at Gund Hall by Casey Hughes with Hiroshi Jacobs
  Sep 26 '11
• Weiss/Manfredi studio at the BMW Guggenheim Lab
  Sep 18 '11
• Live Blog: Janette Sadik-Khan, Comissioner of NYC Department of Trasportation
  Sep 15 '11
• Live Blog: Naginski, Jarzombek, Savage, and Wodiczko on Memory, Vision, and Practice
  Sep 13 '11
• Tennis, not architecture.
  Sep 5 '11
• Schmancy new website for the GSD
  Aug 29 '11
• Arigatou gozaimasu, Mohsen-sama!
  Aug 27 '11
• Gund Hall is Naked
  Aug 22 '11
• Slow summer...slummer
  Aug 17 '11
• The long road
  Jul 9 '11
• On Loyalties Divided (re: sacking of Michael Jemtrud at McGill)
  Jun 25 '11
• things of unusual beauty (x rays of my broken bones)
  Jun 16 '11
• Live Blog: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
  May 5 '11
• Korean Dance-Off and Cory Booker
  Apr 15 '11
• In which I question David Brooks on his support of the GOP budget. Read Brooks' reply.
  Apr 12 '11
• Letter from "Harvard Design School" re: Ai Weiwei
  Apr 10 '11
• Sparking Social Change (Maurice Cox, Marshall Ganz, Duarte Morais)
  Apr 6 '11
• Live Blog: Ryue Nishizawa...at MIT
  Apr 1 '11
• The Cognitive Science of Embodiment and the Place of Architecture Today: a conversation with Alberto Pérez-Gómez
  Mar 30 '11
• Live Blog: Eclipse of Beauty, vol. II
  Mar 29 '11
• Great shame upon our family.
  Mar 29 '11
• GSD M.Arch.I Q+A
  Mar 26 '11
• Live Blog: Junya Ishigami in Piper
  Mar 22 '11
• Nicholas Kristof Win-a-Trip finalist, UVA architecture student Hannah Silver!
  Mar 20 '11
• On Fukushima
  Mar 12 '11
• They can't stop me from live blogging this one: The Eclipse of Beauty
  Mar 9 '11
• Conversation with U Michigan's Architecture Program Chair
  Mar 4 '11
• Vito Acconci, again and again
  Mar 2 '11
• Hamlet on the Red Line
  Feb 27 '11
• Inflated
  Feb 12 '11
• Mubarak steps down.
  Feb 11 '11
• YESNOYESNO.net
  Feb 2 '11
• Out
  Jan 31 '11
• Deciphering Tracks
  Jan 28 '11
• The coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.
  Jan 26 '11
• Spring 2011
  Jan 19 '11
• Not the GSD
  Dec 20 '10
• MB DRO ROSHI
  Dec 17 '10
• Finally.
  Dec 13 '10
• 100 hours to go.
  Dec 2 '10
• Edward Norton -- seriously??
  Nov 30 '10
• Better than Gund.
  Nov 29 '10
• Martin and Kipnis: What Good Can Architecture Do?
  Nov 22 '10
• Ten signs that the GSD has ruined me
  Nov 22 '10
• Campus Catalyst: MASS weighs in at World Architecture Festival
  Nov 15 '10
• On the function of folly
  Nov 11 '10
• Live Blogging Bjarke Ingels with Preston Scott Cohen
  Nov 10 '10
• Krieger: "reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated"
  Nov 8 '10
• midterm
  Nov 4 '10
• On the Flagship with Preston Scott
  Nov 2 '10
• In defense of homasote
  Oct 28 '10
• Lessons from the Superfly Machine
  Oct 26 '10
• The GSD took my desk away and all I got are these crummy drafting dots.
  Oct 22 '10
• Edible
  Oct 10 '10
• It's not about the words this time
  Oct 6 '10
• Out with the old, in with the new
  Oct 3 '10
• Bicycles in Montreal
  Oct 3 '10
• Three States of Hors d'oeuvres
  Sep 27 '10
• He said they should be rough.
  Sep 9 '10
• To the ends of the earth...and back
  Sep 5 '10
• China!
  Jul 17 '10
• Career Discovery
  Jun 22 '10
• School's out!
  May 22 '10
• What it Takes
  May 12 '10
• Richard Meier Model Museum
  May 9 '10
• Game on.
  Apr 17 '10
• GSD LECTURE SERIES NAMING ALGORITHM CRACKED!
  Apr 3 '10
• In Which Elizabeth Diller Accuses Us of Being Modernist
  Mar 31 '10
• What should I ask Rafael Moneo?
  Mar 29 '10
• details and grass and jobs
  Mar 27 '10
• Thickened Wall: Mission (more or less) accomplished!
  Mar 19 '10
• Three things I love about the GSD.
  Feb 24 '10
• Yes, James, it was utopia.
  Feb 23 '10
• the field trip was a success.
  Feb 19 '10
• Thickened Wall
  Feb 17 '10
• Aggregate 21 days
  Feb 16 '10
• Um, hello
  Jan 30 '10
• really advanced kindergarten
  Nov 21 '09
• The Return of Nature
  Nov 17 '09
• Open House Edition, Part Two
  Nov 14 '09
• Open House Edition, Part One
  Nov 6 '09
• Second Project Done.
  Oct 9 '09
• "Psychoanalysis with twenty people on the couch at once"
  Sep 29 '09
• Frankly Speaking
  Sep 24 '09
• Project 1 done. Project 2 starting.
  Sep 21 '09
• Orientation Week
  Aug 27 '09
• This makes me very happy.
  Aug 26 '09
• My first project = your comic relief
  Aug 20 '09
• God bless Geeks
  Aug 18 '09
• Butterflybelly
  Aug 13 '09
• Greetings from Gund
  Aug 5 '09
• You know that a PhD student will never just give the short answer.
  Aug 1 '09
• Hello Archinect!
  Jul 27 '09