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 Aksamija, John Ochsendorf, Mark Jarzombek
“Dinner with the In-Laws: Agency”, part of the Dinner with the In-Laws Series

Apr 14
Lamia Joreige, Keith Krumwiede, Michael Webb
“Agendas: Politics of the Image”  

Apr 20
Boris Groys
“Agendas: Politics of Production”  

Apr 21-22
“Being Material” symposium
at MIT Samberg Conference Center, Building E52

Apr 24
Power Lunch: Women in Planning

Apr 24
Adam Shatz
“No Direction Home: The Life and Legacy of Frantz Fanon”

Apr 24
Pedro Reyes
“Art as Conflict Resolution”

Apr 27
Tatiana Bilbao 
“An Essential Nature (or Landscape): The Otherness”

Apr 28
Vivian Sobchack
“From Screen-Scape to Screen-Sphere: A Meditation in Medias Res”

May 1
Burak Erdim
“The Mosque and the Arcade: Academy and Nationhood in the Cold War Middle East”

May 5
Stanford Anderson and History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art Symposium

Agendas: Politics of Production lectures

For more event info, visit architecture.mit.edu/lectures.

Also check out the Spring '17 City Design & Development Group lecture events from MIT's Departments of Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page! 

Want another way to share your school's events? Send them to Bustler! Simply submit events for review here.