Welcome to the PhD program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning web site.
Announcements
October 7, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Devin Fore of Princeton University will present “The Camera Unleashed: Moholy-Nagy Between the New Vision and the Old Geocentrism.” Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
October 2, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Jinnai Hidenobu of Hōsei University (Tokyo) will present “Reading the Urban Landscape of Tokyo: Ecology and History,” co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 6 PM. Poster: e-mail, print.
August 27–30, 2008
Max Hirsh will present his paper “Intelligentsia Design: The Residential Plattenbau as a Magnet for Talent in Late GDR Redevelopment Plans for East Berlin” at the European Association of Urban History (EAUH) conference in Lyon.
July 6–11, 2008
Max Hirsh will present his paper ”‘Make Your Airport a Social Center’: Mobility, Sociability, and Design in Interwar American Airports” at the joint congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) in Chicago.
May 20–22, 2008
Jana Cephas will present her paper “Visions and Visionaries: Designing Detroit’s Belle Isle” at the “Designing the Parks” conference at the University of Virginia.
April 22–23, 2008
Jesse Shapins is co-organizing “Writing Cities,” an MIT-LSE-Harvard graduate student conference on urban studies. During the conference, Jesse will be presenting the paper "Talking about Media, the City and Human Subjectivity: A Retroactive Manifesto for a Critical Urban Media Arts" with Brian House. The conference also includes the audio and video installation “NF01: The Chirping Sidewalk,” organized by The New Factographers, featuring work by PhD students Jennifer Mack, Jesse Shapins, Lara Belkind and Mariana Mogilevich, DDes Antonio Petrov and MLA Ilana Cohen.
April 17, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Edward Dimendberg of the University of California at Irvine will present “Dogs, Wags, and Tails: Public Space, Autonomy, and Visual Culture,” Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
April 12, 2008
Cambridge Talks 2: A symposium on Urban Infrastructure will take place in Piper Auditorium from 2–5pm. Speakers include Hilary Ballon, M. Christine Boyer, Margaret Crawford, Judith Grant Long, Antoine Picon, and Hashim Sarkis. For more information, contact Anna Bergren or Max Hirsh.
March 15, 2008
Olga Touloumi is presenting her paper “Working towards the Supermedium: Loudspeakers, Laser Beams, and Architecture” at the annual NE/SAH Student Symposium.
Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 9:30 AM; flyer and program (pdf).
March 14–15, 2008
Robin Schuldenfrei is co-organizing the conference “Bauhaus Palimpsest: The Object of Discourse,” to be held at—and sponsored by—the Harvard University Art Museums (M. Victor Leventritt Symposia).
Arthur M. Sackler Memorial Lecture Hall; schedule (pdf).
March 6, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Uta Poiger of the University of Washington will present “Beauty and Business in 20th Century Germany.”
Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
February 24, 2008
Yellow Arrow: Capitol of Punk, a documentary co-produced by Jesse Shapins about Washington D.C. from the perspective of its punk music history, will be included in MoMA's exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” through May 12th.
January 31, 2008
Jennifer Mack will be screening her film on the Assyrian “national” soccer team, Assyriska, one of eight Sensory Ethnography shorts.
Carpenter Center, 6:30 PM.
November 26–27, 2007
Jesse Shapins is delivering a keynote talk "The Mixed-Reality City: Narrative, Play & Learning in Multimodal Environments" with Brian House at the Pervasive E-Learning conference, organized by the Knowledge Lab at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.
November 15, 2007
GSD_PhD Talks: Laura Kurgan of Columbia University will present recent projects.
Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
November 15–17, 2007
Robin Schuldenfrei will present her paper “Luxury, Production, Reproduction" at "Die Bauhaus-Moderne und ihre Mythen” [Bauhaus Modernism and its Myths] conference sponsored by the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
November 13–14, 2007
Elysse Newman will present her paper, “The (Mostly) Mechanical Eye: Physiological Psychology and Perception of Space in the Empiricist Science of Mind,” at the conference “Architecture, Technology and the Historical Subject,” at the École Nationale Supérieure d‘Architecture de Paris—La Villette.