Objects, Contexts, Canons and Experiments: Four Conversations on Theory and History, Part 4

Where are we today regarding the way we produce and teach the theory and history of architecture, cities, and landscapes? Should we still give...

Objects, Contexts, Canons and Experiments: Four Conversations on Theory and History, Part 3

Where are we today regarding the way we produce and teach the theory and history of architecture, cities, and landscapes? Should we still give...

Antoine Picon: Architecture, matter & language in the Digital Age (March 9, 2016)

Antoine Picon argues that digital technology is giving rise to a new materiality in architecture. Scale and tectonic legibility are no longer givens, while...

Antoine Picon: Smart Cities: A New Challenge for Design

Senior Mellon Fellow Antoine Picon argues that in order to contribute fruitfully to the construction of smart cities, design must start from the changing...

Toolkit for Today 2013: Antoine Picon

The CCA presents its second Toolkit for Today, a two-week summer seminar for PhD candidates and Master students from around the world. This year’s...

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 GSD Antoine 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...