Department of Architecture Lecture Series Fall 2007

What City?

Tuesday September 11 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Ackbar Abbas Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine "The (Chinese) City as Decept"
Tuesday September 18 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Vicente Guallart Architect, Barcelona "Sociopolis"
Tuesday September 25 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Saskia Sassen Economist, Columbia University, New York City "The Global City: When built environments become infrastructure"
Tuesday October 2 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Lars Lerup Dean, School of Architecture, Rice University, Houston "After the City"
Tuesday October 30 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Margaret Crawford Professor of Urban Design, Harvard Design School, Cambridge "Everyday Urbanism"
Tuesday November 6 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Hou Hanru Director, Exhibitions & Public Programs, San Francisco Art Institute "Post planning"
Tuesday November 13 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Momoyo Kaijima Architect, Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo "Made in Tokyo: Practice of Lively Space"
Tuesday November 20 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Arata Isozaki Architect, Arata Isozaki & Associates, Tokyo "What City? Archipelago City"
Tuesday November 27 6:30 pm Room 10-250 Franz Oswald Architect, Bern; Emeritus Dean of Architecture, ETH, Zurich "What City? Phoenix from the Ashes -- NN: Notes on Netzstadt"
Room 10-250 can be reached from 77 Massachusetts Avenue. Lectures are free and open to the public. For some lectures, members of the MIT community with IDs will be admitted between 5:45-6:10 pm and the general public will be admitted as space permits at 6:20 pm. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617-253-7791