Symposium On The City – Part 3 – Bernard Tschumi

Lecture date: 1990-12-08 Alvin Boyarsky Memorial Event A memorial event to the late Alvin Boyarsky, Chairman of the AA from 1971 to 1990. The city was...

Heghnar Watenpaugh – Ottoman Aleppo: Experiencing Architecture, Narrating Space

Lecture and Conversation Thursday, March 24, 2016 6:00pm Wood Auditorium Discussion with Laura Kurgan and Avinoam Shalem Part of the Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Focus Aleppo lecture...

“Planning for Justice: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Metropolis” Thomas Sugrue

Thomas J. Sugrue is Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a member of the graduate...

Conference, “Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad”

Using the history of urban development in Baghdad as a reference point, this conference examines the extent to which interventions intended to modernize and...

Roots of a 21st Century Urbanism: The Vision of Manuel de Solà-Morales

For Manuel de Solà-Morales (1939--2012), urbanism necessarily entailed the application of ideas to different realities. He saw urbanism as a social construct, subject to...

Ross Adams – Circulation and Sovereignty: A Political History of Urbanisation

Lecture date: 2012-11-19 History and Theory Studies Lecture Series Today, the urban appears as a kind of generalised background of life. At once an immediately recognisable...

Michael Weinstock – Dreams, Speculations and Projections

Lecture date: 2017-02-08 Reflections on the utopian dreams of architects and the dystopian anxieties of society expressed in film and literature, situated in the context...