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Spring 2015 Lecture Series: Experiments

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Feb 27, '15 8:03 PM EST

05 Feb - 17 April
​Building Discourse: The 2015 MIT Architecture Faculty Exhibition
Opening, Wolk Gallery Exhibition

11-Feb
Wang Shu

"Tiles Hill"
6 PM, E14-633

12-Feb
Francesca Hughes
“The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure and the Misadventures of Precision”
6 PM, Long Lounge

19-Feb
Jonathan Knowles with Helen Bergstrom and Kim Dupont-Madinier
"Techstyle Haus"
Building Technology, 6 PM, Long Lounge

21-Feb
Dance/Light Lateral Studio with Richard Colton, in collaboration with Abigail Donovan, Tom Hughes, and Jared Green

23-Feb
Emily Whiting
“Computational Tools To Stand, Spin And Assemble”
Building Technology, 12:30 PM, Long Lounge

23-Feb
Farhan Karim
Architecture as an Appropriating Apparatus: Muslim Nationalism and Designing Presidential Complex of Islamabad, Pakistan
AKPIA, 6:00 PM, 3-133

23-Feb
Martino Tattara
Living/Working: Domestic Space and the Project of the City
CAU, 6 PM, Long Lounge

26-Feb
Carlo Olmo and Susanna Caccia Gherardini

Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye: A Microhistory, 1929-1998
HTC, 12:30 PM, 3-133

Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
Finite Format
The 26th Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture, 6:30 PM, 10-250

2-Mar
Doris Summer
The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities
ACT, 7 PM, E15-070

4-Mar
Jeanne Van Heeswijk
Fields of Interactions
ACT, 7 PM, E15-070

5-Mar
Giancarlo Mazzanti
Architecture for Action

6-Mar
Schlossman Research Fellowship Presentations

9 Mar
Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou
Co-producing the City
ACT, 7 PM, E15-070

10-Mar
On Competition: Responding to the Guggenheim

13-Mar
FYI/FAQ: Post-MIT
Alumni Panel

16-Mar
Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol
proposition for reclaiming a space
ACT, 7 PM, E15-070

16-Mar
Dana Sajdi
“Ceci n'est pas Damas: Arabic Prose Topographies of Damascus”
AKPIA, 6 PM, 3-133

19-Mar
Eyal Weizman
“Forensis: Architecture at the Threshold of Detectibility”
HTC & CAU, 6 PM, Long Lounge

31-Mar
Rania Ghosn
“Geostories”
6 PM, Long Lounge

2-Apr
Thomas Auer
“Energy · Climate · Design”
BT, 6 PM, Long Lounge

3-Apr
Mike Eisenberg
Helping Children to be Makers: Improving the Tools, the Stuff, and the Hands”
Computation, 5:30 PM, Long Lounge

6-Apr
Rikke Luther
Public Place in its Meltdown Area
ACT, 7 PM, E15-070

9-Apr / Spring Accepted Students Open House
Elizabeth Diller
The 21st Pietro Belluschi Lecture, 6:30 PM, 10-250

13-Apr
Joel Loveland
“Light Construction: Landscapes of Daylight”
BT, 12:30 PM, 7-429

13-Apr
Claire Pentecost
The quick and the dirty
ACT, 7 PM, E15-070

13-Apr
Robin Schuldenfrei
“The Gesamtkunstwerk and the Exilic Exigencies of the Bauhaus in England”
HTC, 6 PM, 7-429

17-Apr
Sara Hendren
Function and Friction: Rethinking Design, Disability, and Assistive Technology
Computation, 5:30 PM, 7-429

23-Apr
Karl Willis
Beyond Trinkets: Manufacturing Functional Devices at Scale
Computation, 5:30 PM, 7-429

April 24-25
Active Matter Summit: Programming Materials to Sense, Transform, and Self-Assemble Organized by the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT
E15-070

25-Apr
Glass Structures Lateral Studio with Diablo Glass School

27-Apr
Michael Rakowitz
ACT, 7 PM, E15-070

27-Apr
Mohammad Gharipour
"Culture and Identity: The Architecture of Jewish Holy Spaces in Isfahan, Iran”
AKPIA, 6 PM, 3-133

30-Apr
Finbarr Barry Flood
“Sanctified Sandals: Polemics and Relics in an Era of Technological Reproducibility”
HTC, 6 PM, 7-429

May 2
Revisiting Case: The Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment
Participants: CASE members Stanford Anderson, Anthony (Tony) Eardley, Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Michael Graves, Robert Kliment, Donlyn Lyndon, Michael McKinnell, Richard Meier, Henry (Hank) Millon, Jaquelin (Jaque) Robertson, and Thomas (Tim) Vree
HTC Symposium, 10 AM, 10-250

4-May
Paul Linden
“The Fluid Mechanics Of Low-Energy Architecture”
The 14th Arthur R. Goldstein Lecture in Architecture, Engineering, and Science
BT, 6 PM, 7-429

5-May
Basile Baudez
“Drawing for the Prize: Architectural Competition Drawings from Europe to America”
HTC, 6 PM, 7-429