Spectacular Simplicity: New Models of Design Research
Research grounds us in the realities and exigencies of the various environments in which designers work. They aspire to critically engage in and understand...
Exhibition Opening: “Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China”
This discussion marks the opening of the exhibition Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China, in the main gallery of Gund Hall. With...
Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age Conference – Infrastructures
moderated by Diane Davis, Harvard GSDAntoine Picon, Harvard GSD"Airport Infrastructure: From Flows to Events"Richard de Neufville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"The Future of Airport Passenger...
Objects, Contexts, Canons and Experiments: Four Conversations on Theory and History, Part 1
Where are we today regarding the way we produce and teach the theory and history of architecture, cities, and landscapes? Should we still give...
GSD at the Chicago Architecture Biennial: “New Materialisms: Panel 1, Practices Make History”
“New Materialisms: Histories Make Practice | Practices Make History” brings together historians, critics, and practitioners to discuss the complex ways in which architecture is...
Antoine Picon, “Digital Culture in Architecture”
Antoine Picon is Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the GSD. He teaches...
Advancements in Design Computation
Lecture date: 2016-02-19Antoine Picon, Achim Menges & Francis Aish,Chaired by Ali Farzaneh & Elif ErdineThe event will delve into the role of computation in...
Objects, Contexts, Canons and Experiments: Four Conversations on Theory and History, Part 2
Where are we today regarding the way we produce and teach the theory and history of architecture, cities, and landscapes? Should we still give...
Architecture and Technology: the Beauty of Transgression
Presentations and panel discussion, organized by Antoine Picon and Preston Scott Cohen. source
Symposium on Architecture: “Design Techniques II,” with…
In a discipline reformulating the role of the architect, the question of technique has acquired a new priority. Techniques move with unexpected fluidity, circulating...