IIT Architecture
Spring 2019 Lectures and Events
All lectures are open to the public unless otherwise noted
LECTURES
Wed, Jan 23
David Crowell (BARCH '79)
IIT Architecture Board of Advisors Chairman
"The Purpose Of A Building; Do You Know The Problem You Are Solving?”
S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
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Mon, Jan 28
Aleksandar Radulovic and Johanna Hurme
Morgenstern Visiting Chair Lecture
"Add via Edit"
6 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
Thu, Feb 21
Gina Pollara
"
Louis Kahn's Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park"
Executive Leader, Architect, Urbanist, Advocate, and Author
co-sponsored by
Alphawood Foundation
6 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Lower Core
Mon, March 4
Martin Moeller
"Secret Cities:
The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project"
Senior Curator, the National Building Museum
2:30 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Lower Core
Click here to read more about the Secret Cities exhibition
Thu, Mar 14
Emanuele Coccia
Alfred Caldwell Lecture: The Life of Plants
Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris
6 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Lower Core
Wed, Apr 3
Florence Knoll: Defining Modern (BS ARCH '41)
6 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
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Thu, Apr 4
H-Sang Seung: Landscript
6 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Lower Core
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Mon, Apr 8
Murray Fraser: A World of Architectural History
6 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
Thu, Apr 11
John Ochsendorf
Myron Goldsmith Memorial Lecture
"
Space, Time and Structure"
6 p.m., S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
Fri, April 12–Sat, April 13
platformMIDDLE: Architecture Housing for the 99%
12–7 p.m. (Fri); 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (Sat)
S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
Wed, Apr 17
AIAS Guest Lecture | Saša Begovic
founder and partner at Croatian architecture firm 3LHD
6 p.m., S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
EVENTS
Thu, Feb 28
IIT Career Fair
S. R. Crown Hall
Wed, March 20
Italian Design Day 2019
Roundtable - “Design and Future Cities”
Prof. Zurlo, Vice Dean of the Design School, Politecnico di Milano with Professors Anijo Mathews (IIT Institute of Design), Martin Belsen (IIT Architecture), Denis Weil (Dean, IIT Institute of Design), Michelangelo Sabatino (Dean, IIT Architecture)
6-8 pm | Kaplan Institute | IIT Mies Campus
March 25 – Apr 19
VR Bauhaus
S. R. Crown Hall (Building open to public from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Join IIT College of Architecture, Bauhaus-Archiv and the Goethe-Institut to experience the Bauhaus through another lens in celebration of the 100th year anniversary of the German Bauhaus and the year of German American Friendship.
Thu, March 28
Mies Birthday Party
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5:30 p.m. Reception (paid attendees)
6:30 p.m. program + performance, S. R. Crown Hall
Fri, Apr 5
Bauhaus Faces and Living the Bauhaus (Opening Reception)
5-6 p.m.
IIT Architecture Student Gallery (3410 S. State Street)
IT College of Architecture, Bauhaus-Archiv and Goethe-Institut embrace the 100th year anniversary of the German Bauhaus and year of German American Friendship. IIT College of Architecture students curate a photographic exhibition featuring artistically diverse photographic reproductions of the Bauhaus (in Germany) students and teachers.
Wed, Apr 10
Round Table with Students: IIT Architecture Board of Advisors
6 p.m., S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
Mon, April 15
Dirk Denison: 10 Houses Book Launch
6 p.m. | S. R. Crown Hall, Center Core
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Fri, May 10
IIT Architecture Open House
5 p.m., S. R. Crown Hall