IIT Architecture
Fall 2018 Lectures and Events
All lectures are open to the public unless otherwise noted
LECTURES
September 6
6 pm | 3410 rm 216
PhD Research Forum
ERIC MUMFORD
Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University
"Designing the Modern City: Modern Urbanism and its Postwar Critics"
September 12
2 pm Discussion with students | 5 pm - Caldwell Grove Reception | 6 pm Lecture
S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
Peter Schaudt Lecture
TORU MITANI
"Material and Possibilities of Space in Landscape."
September 13
6 pm | 3410 rm 216
PhD Research Forum
ROBERT FISHMAN
Professor, Taubman College, University of Michigan (TBC)
"The Second Urban Revolution"
September 24
6 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture
JANET ECHELMAN
Visiting Professor, IIT
"Soft Structure: Sculpting at the Scale of Cities"
October 1
6 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture
SEVY PEREZ
Artist, Founder of Intradesign
"You Are The Room You Are In"
October 3
6 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture
TREVOR LEE
Visiting Assistant Professor, IIT Architecture
"Forests & Monsters"
October 5
5 pm | 3410 rm 2016
PhD Research Forum
DR. CLAUDIA PERREN
CEO and Director, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
"Bauhaus Centenary: Trial and Error"
October 18
6 pm Lecture | S. R. Crown Hall Room 14
The Mies Project: Arina Dähnick
October 19
5:30 pm Reception | 6 pm Lecture | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture
TAKAHARU TEZUKA
“Nostalgic Future:Real human life is supported by latest technologies. Our good future is depending on the respect for the wisdom from our past. We are still a part of the whole environment, yet still in the most advanced society.”
October 22
6 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture
WENDELL BURNETTE
Wendell Burnette Architects; Professor in Practice Arizona State University
"Dialogues in Space: The Work of Wendell Burnette Architects"
November 5
6 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture
KIM SOSS
Alfred Caldwell and the Performance of Democracy: Archives and Events Series
"Democracies at Promontory Point"
November 8
6:30 pm | Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist
KENNETH FRAMPTON (KEYNOTE)
Le Corbusier Symposium
Curated by Eric Mumford and Daniel Whittaker
November 14
6 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture
LORCAN O'HERLIHY
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]
"Amplified Urbanism"
November 15
6 pm | 3410 rm 216
PhD Research Forum
DR. SYBIL DERRIBLE
Director, Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Laboratory; Associate Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Shaping Future Cities to be Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient"
November 19
6 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
Public Lecture (AIAS)
CARLY COULSON
AIA LEED AP CPHD, COULSON
"Invisible Sustainability"
November 29
6 pm | 3410 rm 216
PhD Research Forum
EDGAR STACH
Professor, Faculty at the College of Architecture and Build Environment and College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, Thomas Jefferson University
"Smart Structures"
EVENTS
August 7
12pm -2pm | S. R. Crown Hall - Center Core
Shared History: The Mecca Flat Revealed at IIT
August 20
12:45 pm | S. R. Crown Hall
WELCOME BACK PICNIC
August 22
6 pm | Exhibition Opening & Reception
S. R. Crown Hall - North Core
Painting Toward Architecture: The Work of Harry Seidler
curated by Vladimir Belogolvsky
September 14
5:30pm - 7pm | 3410 S State St
Myron Goldsmith - A Celebration & Concert
September 20
6-9pm | S. R. Crown Hall - Center Core
From there to here: Krueck + Sexton Architects
Ronald Krueck, Mark Sexton and Tom Jacobs in conversation
September 27
6-8pm | S. R. Crown Hall - Center Core
ILASLA Ignite Series
Gunilla Girardo
Senior Advisor, Twomentor and Director – Scandinavian Desk, YER USA Executive Recruiting
Register here
October 10
9am – 7pm | S. R. Crown Hall
MCHAP SYMPOSIUM/DINNER
November 1
8 am | Kaplan Institute
Driverless City
November 16-17
PhD Program Symposium
Buildings, Cities , and Performance
Keynote: Christoph Reinhart (MIT)
November 16
6 - 9pm | S. R. Crown Hall - Center Core
Holiday Gospel Celebration and Conversation