Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is 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.

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For Spring 2018, Harvard GSD's lecture series features “a combination of artists, writers, politicians, and policymakers [who] will contribute a dynamic range of perspectives on design and the built environment” — including upcoming lectures from Jeanne Gang, Amanda Levete, Thomas Phifer, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, visual and performing artist Otobong Nkanga, a reading by novelist Junot Diaz, a panel featuring Rafael Moneo, Harry N. Cobb, and Peter Eisenman, and other events. (You can check out some of the individual event posters below.)

Jan 23
Michael Hays / Academic Dean + Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard GSD
Andrew Holder / Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvard GSD

Jan 25
Rosa Sheng / Principal, SmithGroupJJR; President of AIA San Francisco

Jan 26
Ken Yeang / Principal at T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn., Selangor, Malaysia

Jan 30
Annabelle Selldorf / Founding Partner, Selldorf Architects, New York

Feb 1
Sarah Oppenheimer, visual artist, New York City

Feb 8-9
Migration and the Humanities: A Conference
feat. novelist Junot Díaz; Parul Sehgal, The New York Times book critic; and Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard

Feb 9
Danielle Choi / Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture; 2016-17 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow in Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD

Feb 20
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago

Feb 22
Kahlil Joseph, artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles

Feb 27
“On Monuments: Place, Time, and Memory” symposium

Mar 1
Aaron Sachs / Professor of History at Cornell University

Mar 2
Mark Joseph / Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Associate Professor in Community Development; Founding Director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities (NIMC) at Case Western Reserve University

Amy Khare / Research Assistant Professor in the Mandel School of Applied Sciences at Case Western; the Research Director of the NIMC

Mar 8
Otobong Nkanga, visual artist based in Belgium

Mar 9
Samia Henni / architect; Lecturer, History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University

Mar 20
Suad Amiry / architect and author based in Ramallah 

Mar 22
Thomas Phifer / Founder of Thomas Phifer and Partners

Mar 27
“The Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction” 
Discussion by the book's editors Luis Valenzuela and Felipe Vera

Mar 27
Jill Magid, conceptual artist and writer

Apr 2
Peter Märkli, architect based in Zurich

Apr 5
Jeanne Gang / Founding principal, Studio Gang

Apr 9
Amanda Levete / Founder and principal of AL_A

Apr 10
Raphael W. Bostic / CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Apr 17
Rafael Moneo, Harry N. Cobb, and Peter Eisenman

Apr 19
Yvonne Cagle, NASA astronaut

Apr 23
Raf Simons / Chief Creative Officer at Calvin Klein
Sterling Ruby, Los Angeles-based artist

Apr 24
Stig Andersson / Founder of SLA

For more info and updates, click here. Past Harvard GSD events can be viewed on their YouTube channel.

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