2026 Spring Lecture Series: Eric Höweler

ScreenTime: Architecture, Attention, and Atmosphere pairs Eric Höweler, Co-Founder and Partner at Höweler + Yoon, with the Coolidge Theater renovation as a running case study, tracing design strategies through the history of film and architectural optics: from the Camera Obscura and Muybridge’s panoramas to the advent of color film and Art Deco’s attitude. The talk will consider how framing, projection, and material decisions choreograph attention and conjure atmosphere, arguing that architecture guides spectatorship as surely as any screen. This lecture is in conjunction with the Design Student Film Festival.

Join us on Thursday, April 9 at 6PM EDT  in Cascieri Hall or virtually!

Eric Höweler, FAIA, LEED AP, is an architect, designer, and educator. He is co-founding partner of Höweler + Yoon and Professor in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he is the Program Director for the Masters of Architecture Program. Höweler’s design work and research focuses on building technology integration and material systems. His projects range from cultural buildings and mixed-use residential buildings, to public spaces and interactive environments. Recently completed projects include Living Village at the Yale Divinity School, the MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, and the Coolidge Corner Theatre expansion. Höweler's work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, and the Venice Biennale. He is the co-author of Expanded Practice (Princeton Architectural Press 2009), Verify In Field: Projects and Conversations Höweler + Yoon (Park Books, 2021), and author of Design for Construction: The Tectonic Imagination in Contemporary Architecture (Routledge 2025).