HARVARDGSDFALL 14LECTURESERIES

10/27–12/18

C+arquitectos, Madrid and London

Atelier d’Architecture Autogerée, Paris

Moderated by Krzysztof Wodiczko

Betonwerk Rieder, Maishofen

harvardcgbc.org/challengeconference

Emeritus Professor of Geographyand Honorary Research Fellow,Univeristy College London

Part of the series“Then and Now: Walter Gropius

and the Lineage of the Bauhaus”

Chair of Landscape Architecture, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zürich

Paris, Haiti, New York Interboro Partners, New York

jchs.harvard.edu Writer, New York Preservation Landscape Architect, City of New York Department of Parks Moderated by Iñaki Ábalos

Moderated by Grace La MArch ’95

Amid.cero9, MadridSelldorf Architects, New York

2015 Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor

Moderated by Jerold S. Kayden AB ’75, JD ’79, MCRP ’79

Moderated by Andrew Witt MArch ’07, MDes ’02

BIG/Bjarke Ingels Group,New York, Copenhagen, Beijing

Topotek1, Berlin Jonathan Rose Companies, New York

Design as Survival,

Resistance, and

Transformative Action

with Lucy Orta,

Rikke Luther and

Joep Van Lieshout

11/20

The Urban Design

Group with

Jacquelin Robertson,

Richard Weinstein,

Jonathan Barnett, and

Donald Elliott

10/9

Symposium

on

Architecture

Design Techniques with

Sharon Johnston MArch ’95,

Mark Lee MArch ’95,

Jeannette Kuo MArch ’04,

Philippe Rahm, and

Camilo Restrepo Ochoa

10/30

Talking Practice

with Elena Manferdini,

Aaron Sprecher,

Ashley Schafer, and

David Benjamin

11/4

Radical Cities author

Justin McGuirk in

conversation with

Felipe Correa MAUD ’03

10/1

0

Designing Housing

and Communities for

an Aging Population

10/17

Assistance Mortelle

Raoul Peck

11/13

Cristina Díaz Moreno

and Efrén García

Grinda

10/16

Innovate: Nerea Calvillo

10/2

1

Doina Petrescu and

Constantin Petcou

11/1

2

Curated by Rosetta S. Elkin

Grounded Visionaries:Pedagogy + Practice

Writing Practice Ocean State

Nicholas Fox Weber

and Toshiko Mori

11/18

Innovate: Wolfgang Rieder

9/9David Lowenthal SB ’44

11/17

Suketu Mehta

10/21–23

Christophe Girot

11/12

Joseph Disponzio10/28

Identity, Sovereignty,

and Global Politics

in the Building of

Baghdad

9/18–20

Adaptive Technologies:

Computation’s Deep

Ancestry; with

Greg Lynn and others10/14

Innovate

10/10

Jonathan F. P. Rose9/29

Peter Cook

10/7

Annabelle Selldorf

10/2

GSD TalksNoontime Programs

9/17

Architectural Imagination

After May '68; Lukasz

Stanek in conversation

with Neil Brenner, Eve

Blau, Michael Hays, Tom

Conley, and Stuart Elden

Exhibitions Main Gallery Experiments WallLoeb Library

Main Level and Special Collections

8/25–12/18

8/28–10/22

Curated by Elizabeth Bacon Eager and Bryan E. Norwood AM ’12

More than Mere Practicality: Modernizing Harvard at Midcentury

Loeb LibraryMain Level and Special Collections

11/3–1/20

Register here: groundedvisionaries.org

GSD Design Weekend + Campaign Launch

9/12–13

9/4

Bjarke IngelsEvening Programs

Martin Rein-Cano

9/16

Lecture

Lecture

Conference

John T. Dunlop

Lecture

Lecture

Kenzo Tange

Lecture

Panel

Discussion

Panel

Discussion

Lecture

JCHS

Symposium

11/7

Harvard Center for

Green Buildings

and Cities:

Challenge ConferenceLaunch

FilmScreening

Practice

Platform Panel

Olm

sted

Lecture

Lectures

11/6Lecture

Renzo Piano with

Kenneth Frampton LF ’73

Lecture

Sylvester Baxter

Lecture

Lecture

Symposium

Making the Modern

LandscapeCornelia Hahn

Oberlander BLA ’47, and

Susan Herrington MLA ’91

with Sonja Dümpelmann 9/

11

Tobias Armborst MAUD ’02,

Daniel D’Oca MUP ’02,

and Georgeen

Theodore MAUD ’02

11/14O

pen House

Lecture

Zaneta Hong MLA ’07

in conversation with

Charles Waldheim

11/1

8

with Jeanne Gang MArch ’93, Rem Koolhaas, Lars Lerup MAUD ’70, Fumihiko Maki MArch ’54, Farshid Moussavi MArch ’91, Mack Scogin, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Peter Walker MLA ’57 and others

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weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu

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Harvard GSD Fall ’14For up-to-date information:gsd.harvard.edu/eventsgsd.harvard.edu/exhibitionsTwitter: @HarvardGSD

For accessibility accommodations please contact the events office two weeks in advance at 617 496 2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu

9/16

9/29

10/14

10/16

11/7

11/20

11/3–1/20

10/28

8/28–10/22

10/7

10/30

11/4

10/9

10/29/4

10/21–23

9/18–20

8/25– 12/18

11/13

11/14

10/1711/6

11/12

11/18

11/17

10/27–12/18

9/12–13

Lecture

Bjarke IngelsWorldcraft6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, New York, and Beijing), is known for technically innovative buildings that challenge conventional architectural programs. Recent projects include the Danish Maritime Museum (2013), 8 House (2012), West 57th (2012), and Superkilen master plan (2012). His numerous awards include AIA Honor Awards, the Crown Prince Culture Prize from the Danish Culture Fund, and the Wall Street Journal’s Architectural Innovator of the Year Award (2011). Ingels has spoken about his work in many venues, including TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street, and the World Economic Forum.

Evening Programs

GSD Design Weekend + Campaign LaunchThe Grounded Visionaries design weekend and campaign launch features a stimulating series of conversations celebrating design. Notable alumni, faculty, students, and friends—including Jeanne Gang, Rem Koolhaas, Lars Lerup, Fumihiko Maki, Farshid Moussavi, Kate Orff, Moshe Safdie, Mack Scogin, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Peter Walker, and others—will explore the GSD’s global design influence and impact through a series of events and activities. Advance registration is required. For more information and up-to-date program listings, visit groundedvisionaries.org

Lecture

Martin Rein-CanoSuperficial Surfaces 6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Founded in Berlin in 1996 by Martin Rein-Cano, Topotek1 works with landscape at the intersection of architecture, urban design, music, and art. To illustrate aspects and strategies of the firm’s philosophy and approach, which often involves a recontextualization of design features and scenography, Rein-Cano’s lecture will examine one of the firm’s large-scale projects, the urban ambiance for Superkilen, in Copenhagen. Topotek1 has received the Deutscher Städtebaupreis (2002), Deutscher Architekturpreis (2003), and honors from the Chamber of German Landscape Architects (BDLA), among others. A master plan for the Danish city of Høje Taatstrup, the urban design of Port Jeune in Mulhouse, and Lorsch Abbey, a UNESCO World Heritage site, are among its current projects.

Conference

Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad: From Revolution to the Gulf War and BeyondGathering political scientists, architectural and urban historians, and scholars of Iraq and the Arab world, this conference confronts theoretical and empirical questions about the ruptures and continuities of Baghdad’s urban and political history. The built environment of the city will be our lens for understanding struggles over Iraq’s position in a global context shaped by ongoing tensions, from the Cold War to the Gulf War to more recent Middle East conflicts. Organized by Diane Davis; participants include Harith al-Qarawee, Said Alsaady, Alaa al-Tamimi, Amin Alsaden, Pierre Bélanger, M. Christine Boyer, Sibel Bozdogan, Neil Brenner, Mona Damluji, Stuart Elden, Mona Fawaz, Timothy Hyde, Dina Khoury, David Kilcullen, Neil Levine, Maha Malaiki, Kanan Makiya, Roger Owen, Roger Peterson, Caecilia Pieri, Nasser Rabbat, Todd Reisz, Lukasz Stanek, and John Tirman. For a full program and speakers’ biographies go togsd.harvard.edu/buildingofbaghdad

Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Studies with the Center for International Studies, MIT; Urban Theory Lab at Harvard GSD; Risk and Resilience Track of MDes Program, Harvard GSD; Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture, Harvard University.

John T. Dunlop Lecture

Jonathan F. P. RoseThe Entwinement of Housing and Well-Being6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy, and not-for-profit work focuses on creating a more environmentally, socially, and economically resilient world. The Jonathan Rose Companies, founded in 1989, is a multidisciplinary real estate development, planning, and investment firm that has successfully completed more than $1.5 billion of work. The firm’s work touches many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build not only housing, but also civic, cultural, educational, and infrastructure open space. A thought leader in the Smart Growth, national infrastructure, green building, and affordable housing movements, Mr. Rose will give the 15th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, sponsored by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the National Housing Endowment.

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Lecture

Annabelle SelldorfBalance6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Annabelle Selldorf is known for outstanding new projects and sensitive restorations of existing buildings. She will discuss recent projects that demonstrate the programmatic scope of Selldorf Architects, including David Zwirner, the first LEED-certified commercial art gallery in the U.S., and Sunset Park Material Recovery Center, a recycling plant on the Brooklyn waterfront with a public education center. Selldorf is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, an academician of the National Academy Museum, and a board member of the Architectural League of New York, among other leadership positions. An architecture award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2014, praised the strong personal direction in her work.

Kenzo Tange Lecture

Peter CookNose-to-Nose6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Sir Peter Cook will present a selection from his 50 years of projects, emphasizing his recent work with Gavin Robotham and the CRAB studio, with forays into the seaside, kiosks, not-quite- architecture architecture, the continual observation of people, cartoons, the essential silliness of daily life; and the construction of “cheerful” buildings (Graz Kunsthaus), blue buildings, Vienna Law Faculty, Australian architecture school, the “Archigram” memory lingering, and a vehement disinterest in abstraction. Sir Peter Cook, a Director of CRAB, the Cook-Robotham Architecture Bureau in London, is the 2015 Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor.

Panel Discussion

The Urban Design Group: Why Implementation Matters6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Formed in the late 1960s as part of New York City’s Lindsay administration, the Urban Design Group became famous for implementing district urban design plans through innovative zoning approaches. Nearly 50 years later, this event convenes several of the founding members of the original group to discuss their contribution to urban design history. With Jacquelin Robertson, Richard Weinstein, Jonathan Barnett, and Donald Elliott. Moderated by Jerold S. Kayden. Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design.

Supported by the Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Fund.

Panel Discussion

Adaptive Technologies: Computation’s Deep Ancestry6:30 in Piper Auditorium

This discussion will feature designers, historians, and experimentalists who probe the resonance or conflict between design and exact science. We will explore the attraction, limits, amplifications, and subversions of exactness and deduction. As designers have turned to physics and mathematics as models for technique or knowledge in computational design, what have they learned? What might be hidden or pathological ancestors and antecedents to our current and future design technology? Moderated by Andrew Witt, Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, with Greg Lynn and others.

Lecture

Christina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García GrindaRare New Species6:30 in Piper Auditorium

This lecture by Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda presents 15 years of speculations, projects, and built proposals by the Madrid and London-based duo and their collaborators, from the beginnings of the practice in 1997 to projects completed in 2014. Topics are organized according to concepts from their own weird vocabulary in an attempt to convey the range of the projects and the main field of operation: the space of mediation between people, objects, natural species, and built environments.

JCHS Symposium

Designing Housing and Communities for an Aging Population1:00 in Piper Auditorium

According to the World Health Organization, the number of people aged 60 and over will double from 11% in 2006 to 22% by 2050; for the first time in history, older people will outnumber children. The world population is rapidly aging, and housing will play a central role in the well-being of older adults. This half-day event, organized by the Joint Center for Housing Studies, will highlight recent research and the latest innovations in design and policy, to understand and respond to the urgent needs of a global aging population.

jchs.harvard.edu

Lectures

Suketu Mehta6:30 in Piper Auditorium (10/21–22) 6:30 in Stubbins (10/23)

“What is the city but the people?” asks Shakespeare in Coriolanus. In this series of lectures, writer Suketu Mehta looks at the urban human being, exploring themes of migration, loneliness, and community in the world’s cities. Mehta is author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004). His awards include the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s “Fresh Air” and “All Things Considered.”

Cosponsored by the South Asia Institute at Harvard University.

Olmsted Lecture

Joseph DisponzioOn the Theoretical and Practical Development of Landscape Architecture6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Exploring the transformation of the modeling of land from garden-making to landscape architecture, this lecture by Joseph Disponzio will establish the intellectual origins of landscape architecture in relation to the new garden practices that emerged during the 18th century, and the texts that codified these practices, amid Enlightenment-era changes in the understanding of nature. Disponzio is Preservation Landscape Architect for the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation, and Director of the Landscape Design program at Columbia University. He has taught at several institutions, published widely on garden history from the 18th century to the present, and is currently writing introductions for an edition of N. Vergnaud’s L’Art de créer les jardins (1835) and a translation of Jean-Marie Morel’s Théorie des jardins (1776).

Symposium on Architecture

Design Techniques6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Introduced and moderated by Iñaki Ábalos, this symposium considers techniques that occupy a space between the instinctive need of doing, the use of tools, and the questions of for whom and for what a design is done. Design techniques can be disruptive, innovative, communicative, or new. They are opaque to the untutored eye, but to those with access to disciplinary knowledge they are immediately detectable in ways that precisely define communities of colleagues. Spared the limitations and simplifications of theory and practice, design techniques act in relation to both, but since they are subject to other somatic forces with deep roots in the essence of art, they are discreetly powerful. With Jeannette Kuo, Camilo Restrepo Ochoa, Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee, and Philippe Rahm.

Supported be the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.

Practice Platform Panel

Talking Practice4:00 in Piper Auditorium

This event addresses expanded modes of contemporary design practice and the disciplinary potential of these innovative models. Representing some of the many new forms of design practice, from hybrid and curatorial practice to open platform and corporate acquisition, the speakers will reflect on the how and why of their practices, sharing concepts, processes, methods, and techniques. Moderated Grace La, Professor of Architecture, and Paul Nakazawa, Associate Professor of Practice, this panel features 15-minute presentations by Elena Manferdini, Ashley Schafer, Aaron Sprecher, and David Benjamin, followed by a discussion with faculty and students. Organized by the Practice Platform Committee: Grace La (chair), Florian Idenburg, Alex Krieger, Paul Nakazawa, Chris Reed, Jay Wickersham.

Sponsored by the Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Fund.

Lecture

Renzo Piano“How Did You Do It, Mr. Piano?”6:00 in Piper Auditorium

The Harvard Art Museums building, which opens November 16th, consolidates three museums in a single volume capped by a study center and state-of-the-art conservation laboratory. Architect Renzo Piano will speak about the project, followed by a discussion with historian and critic Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University. A laureate of the Pritzker Prize and many other distinctions, Piano founded Renzo Piano Building Workshop in 1981 following an early experimental practice; work in the offices of Franco Albini, Louis Kahn, and others; and collaborations with architect Richard Rogers and engineer Peter Rice. The work of RPBW (Genoa, Paris, and New York) is internationally recognized and lauded for its public spaces, excellence in engineering, and sensitivity to existing structures, as well as for architectural design.

Launch

Harvard Center for Green Buildings and CitiesChallenge ConferenceCelebrating the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, this conference will bring together a diverse set of scientists, designers, and economists to consider issues whose eventual solution will transform the way we design, build, and live. As the Center works toward a multidisciplinary plan for the future of the built environment that will respect and respond to the intricacies of an increasingly complex global landscape, the annual conference will continue the inquiry into effective strategies for shifting the frontier of knowledge and practice. Organized by Ali Malkawi, founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, with Richard Freeman, founding codirector, and research faculty Iñaki Abalos, Martin Bechthold, Stephen Ervin, Eric Höweler, Jerold Kayden, Panagiotis Michalatos, Kiel Moe, Toshiko Mori, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Spiro Pollalis, Chris Reed, Holly Samuelson, and Allen Sayegh. Open to the public; registration is required.

harvardcgbc.org/challengeconference

Lecture

Christophe GirotTopology: On Sensing and Conceiving Landscape6:30 in Piper Auditorium

The invention of landscape has always oscillated between a history of beliefs in nature, with its many representations, and a history of terrain measurements through various techniques of appropriation. In his talk, Christophe Girot will consider the longstanding balance between culture and its instruments for sensing and conceiving a landscape, noting that the particular representation of landscape that we hold true today has roots in the dialogue between ars and techne that has characterized every epoch. The aim of this talk and discussion is to open a window on topology’s shifting point of view with regard to this form of interdependence that will considerably affect our ability to act and perform effectively on landscape’s reality. Girot is chair of Landscape Architecture at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zürich.

Film Screening

Assistance Mortelle (2013) with Raoul Peck6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Assistance Mortelle (2013). In English, French, and Haitian Creole, with English subtitles. 99 mins.Assistance Mortelle (Fatal Assistance) examines the process and legacy of humanitarian aid in Haiti, following the 2010 earthquake. After the film screening, director Raoul Peck will take questions from the audience and join Harvard GSD faculty and guests in a discussion of the significance of fieldwork and the potential of media and representation to shed light on development and governance. Moderated by Pierre Bélanger, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and co-director of the Master in Design Studies program.

Open House Lecture

Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen TheodoreArchitecture for Everyone 4:00 in Piper Auditorium

Interboro’s interdisciplinary work strives to be populist, pluralist, and rooted in the realities of everyday life. In this lecture, the firm’s founding partners—Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore—will discuss recent design, planning, and research projects that embody their engagement with the vernacular, including a regional resiliency plan for Long Island, a forthcoming book about exclusion and inclusion in U.S. cities, and a number of participatory public space installations. Interboro’s awards include the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the AIA New York Chapter’s New Practices Award, and the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices and Young Architects Awards.

Sylvester Baxter Lecture

David LowenthalSpace, Time, and Geography6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Geographer David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of the Department of Geography, University College London, and a renowned and prolific writer on nostalgia, heritage, and the spatial outcomes of concepts of the past and future. In several books on the politics of preservation, the meaning and value of landscape, society in the West Indies, and conceptions of nature, he has focused on the landscape and built environment as palimpsests of cultural attitudes to history. Lowenthal, who taught landscape history and studied urban environmental perception at Harvard GSD between 1966 and 1969, is a medalist of the Royal Geographical Society, Scottish Royal Geographical Society, and American Geographical Society; a fellow of the British Academy; and the recipient of many prestigious awards and prizes. A successor to The Past is a Foreign Country (1985), widely regarded as a classic, is due in print early next year (The Past is a Foreign Country—Revisited, 2015). Susan Nigra Snyder and George Thomas, lecturers in architecture, will host the event on behalf of the GSD’s Critical Conservation program.

Lecture

Nicholas Fox Weber andToshiko MoriJosef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect6:30 in Piper Auditorium

Nicholas Fox Weber, director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will evoke the personality and sensibilities of Josef Albers, the Bauhaus faculty member, through reflections on his experience as Albers’s student at Yale as well as descriptions of recent projects by the Albers Foundation that affirm the Bauhaus spirit of design and continue its commitment to improving human life generally. Toshiko Mori, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, will share her recent projects for a health care facility, a cultural center in Senegal, and student projects from recent GSD studios in collaboration with the Albers Foundation.

Part of the series “Then and Now: Walter Gropius and the Lineage of the Bauhaus,” sponsored by the Breger Fund in Honor of Walter Gropius.

ExhibitionsMain Gallery

Grounded Visionaries: Pedagogy + PracticeThis exhibition, marking the launch of the Harvard GSD’s 2014–2019 capital campaign, illustrates a series of critical themes for design to address in the coming years, as exemplified in a series of projects for buildings, landscapes, public spaces, city plans, manifestoes, publications, student projects, and more. This work demonstrates the school’s commitment to exploring present imperatives while pursuing a projective vision of the future of design.

Loeb Library, Main Level and Special Collections

Writing PracticeDesigners communicate their ideas not only through drawings and built works but also in writing. From Vitruvius’s time to today, the book or essay has translated the concepts of architecture and design, providing a primary mode of disseminating this knowledge throughout the world. This exhibition highlights publications from the Frances Loeb Library, including books by Vitruvius, Le Corbusier, Kiyonori Kikutake, Rem Koolhaas, and others.

Experiments Wall

Ocean StateCurated by Rosetta S. Elkin Studying both the physical and hydrodynamic conditions of Narragansett Bay, this research project aims to identify conditions in which large stands of vegetation along with minimal and precisely located hardened structures might be able to mitigate wave destruction, to slow water, and to limit debris movement stemming from hours of surge water conditions. These attenuation forests are disturbance dependent, offering an expanded definition of “resiliency” through biological terms.

Panel Discussion

Design as Survival, Resistance, and Transformative Action6:30 in Piper Auditorium

The design practices that inspire social collaboration, participation, and coauthorship continue the avant-garde tradition of challenging outmoded thinking and perception while proposing and testing the visions of a beneficent social imagination. In this symposium, three artist-designers whose work critically reactivates this tradition will present and discuss their agenda, ideas, and projects. The panel will explore methodological approaches and concepts such as critical design, discursive design, interrogative design, and transformative design, currently being investigated in the Art, Design, and the Public Domain program at Harvard GSD. With Lucy Orta, Joep van Lieshout, and Rikke Luther; moderated by Krzysztof Wodiczko, Professor in Residence of Art, Design, and the Public Domain.

Supported by the Rouse Visiting Artist Fund.

Loeb Library, Main Level and Special Collections

More than Mere Practicality: Modernizing Harvard at MidcenturyCurated by Elizabeth Bacon Eager and Brian E. NorwoodThis exhibition explores the relationship between art, architecture, and color in an attempt to humanize the functionalist project of architectural modernism, through three midcentury Harvard buildings: TAC’s Harkness Graduate Center (1948–50), Josép Lluis Sert’s Holyoke Center (1958–66), and Minoru Yamasaki’s William James Hall (1961–65).