McCormick Gallery

Healing Spaces

"Healing Spaces" invites visitors on a sensorial and conceptual journey through the work of Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25, – EMBT Architects, where beauty and care are understood as essential ways of inhabiting space. Architecture is presented as a living process, capable of evolving over time and caring for places, communities, and everyday life. The exhibition unfolds as a continuous visual collage formed by vertical acrylic panels that extend along the full height of the gallery, creating a single spatial narrative. This installation brings together three EMBT projects, presented as interconnected fragments of a shared architectural landscape. Selected for their human scale and close relationship with the landscape, these works express EMBT’s vision of architecture as an extension of nature and the body, where beauty becomes a form of care that is experienced and inhabited.

This exhibit opens February 4, 2026.

34th Cascieri Lecture Series featuring Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25, and Healing Spaces Exhibition Opening Reception

Healing Spaces
February 4, 2026
6PM | Lecture in Cascieri Hall or Virtual
7PM | Exhibit Opening Reception in McCormick Gallery

Join us for the 34th Cascieri Lecture Series featuring Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25. Healing Spaces explores how architecture can nurture well-being, transforming buildings and cities into places of comfort and belonging. By embracing renaturalization, reuse, and human-centered design, architecture redefines the city as a landscape of care, where nature and the built environment intertwine to cultivate warmth and connection within the urban fabric.

Following the lecture, please stay for the Healing Spaces exhibit opening reception at 7PM in McCormick Gallery showcasing the work of EMBT Architects, featuring remarks by President Mahesh Daas and Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25,—marking a distinguished celebration of her work and contributions.