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2022 Spring Lecture Series: Khushnu Panthaki Hoof

02/09/2022 - 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Khushnu Panthaki Hoof's talk covers aspects across Studio Sangath’s practice from architecture to exhibition design, curation to book design and beyond. The constant effort has been to design for and with joy.
2022 Spring Lecture Series: Chuan Hao (Alex) Chen

03/02/2022 - 6:00 p.m.

Deploying ethnographic, historical, and architectural analysis of biocontainment architecture, this lecture reveals how the “twin pandemics” of systemic racism and COVID-19 in 2020 are deeply intertwined, from Cold War biological weapons laboratories to the contemporary creation of ephemeral testing and vaccination sites.
2022 Spring Lecture Series - Sierra Bainbridge

03/09/2022 - 6:00 p.m.

From our early work in Rwanda to present, this session will explore the notion that the best results for all stakeholders occur when a project is conceived and built with purpose, supporting equity and capacity-building within the local community.
2022 Spring Lecture Series: Kwesi Daniels

04/07/2022 - 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

As a professional who lives among the 99% and searches for humanity in all of the places where society says it does not exist, Dr. Daneils has been very deliberate in uncovering how to utilize the lines we draw in architecture to create equity. This lecture will explore his educational and personal journey of discovery from being a student to a professor, and now the Head of the Department of Architecture at Tuskegee University.
Cascieri Lecture 30: Lee Pelton

04/14/2022 - 6:00 p.m.

Join us for the 30th Cascieri Lecturer in the Humanities: Dr. M. Lee Pelton, President and CEO, The Boston Foundation. Dr. Pelton will present his lecture: "I Hear America Singing, The Varied Carols I Hear": Walt Whitman and the Promise of Humanistic Architecture.
2022 Fall Lecture Series: Lydia Lowe

08/16/2022 - 6:00 p.m.

Lydia Lowe is the executive director of the Chinatown Community Land Trust and has spent 35 years organizing for civil rights, worker rights, preservation of affordable housing, and community empowerment in Boston Chinatown. Her lecture will center on how Chinatown's definition of community preservation and resilience must consistently center justice.
2022 Childs Memorial Lecture: Patricia Anahory

09/14/2022 - 6:15 p.m.

BAC Alum Patti Anahory’s talk will trace a narrative path across (her) architecture education and practice, weaving her personal journey as an African-woman-architect with critical reflections on political legacies of architecture and dominant spatial narratives and explore what it means to practice architecture otherwise.
2022 Fall Lecture Series - Lori A. Brown

10/05/2022 - 6:00 p.m.

Discussing the research that explores under examined spaces where architects need to be more present in hopes to create a more just world.
2022 Fall Lecture Series - Alison Berg and Yulia Bortkevich

10/12/2022 - 6:00 p.m.

Every place tells a story of belonging and not belonging. The more you belong, the more invisible these boundaries become. Design has the power to challenge and redefine the stories places tell.
2022 Fall Lecture Series - Diana Fernandez

11/02/2022 - 6:00 p.m.

This dialogue exposes the interconnected relationship between ecology and the anthropological sciences. From the design of a public landscape to commemorate Black culture to increasing ecological complexity in urban and suburban systems through planting, landscape heterogeneity creates a platform for change within the doctrine and practice of designing the urban realm.