Spring 2021 events

The Yale School of Architecture’s Spring 2021 events will be presented online and will be free and open to the general public. All events require registration; dates and times are listed according to United States Eastern Time. To register, and to see more event details, please visit our online event listings here. 

Monday, February 1, 6:30pm
Marlon Blackwell
Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor

Thursday, February 11, 6:30pm
Jing Liu

Thursday, February 18, 6:30pm
Chris T. Cornelius
Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor

Thursday, February 25, 1pm
Alberto Veiga

Monday, March 1, 6:30pm
On the Immensity of Amazonia
Launch of Manifest Journal #3
Anthony Acciavatti, Ana María Durán Calisto, Felipe Correa, Dan Handel, and Laurent Troost

Monday, March 15-Friday, March 19
Retrofuturisms
This symposium is conceived and organized by the Yale School of Architecture’s M.Arch II ’21 class as a means of exploring speculative design methodologies and alternative forms of engagement with architecture’s past and future.

The titular portmanteau is the outcome of a year-long collective exploration of a range of topics, including questions of architectural labor and material extraction, psycho-spatial crises on global, regional, and domestic scales, and contemporary manifestations of architectural regionalism, technology, and nostalgia. Working across geographical, political, and temporal divides, Retrofuturisms calls into question the institutional norms and unstated assumptions implicit in contemporary design practices.

The inaugural post-professional symposium gathers practitioners, writers, and thinkers for an extended conversation about these long-standing issues, made all the more timely by this year’s unusual circumstances.

Session 1: Anna Heringer
Monday, March 15, 1pm

Session 2: Xu Tiantian and John Lin
Tuesday, March 16, 6:30pm

Session 3: Lucia Allais and Peggy Deamer
Wednesday, March 17, 6:30pm

Session 4: Clark Thenhaus and Neyran Turan
Thursday, March 18, 6:30pm

Session 5: Liam Young
Friday, March 19, 6:30pm

Thursday, March 25, 6:30pm
Fiona Raby

Thursday, April 1, 6:30pm
Olalekan Jeyifous

Thursday, April 8, 6:30pm
Kate Orff
Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Lecture

Monday, April 12, 6:30pm
Justin Garrett Moore

Thursday, April 22, 6:30pm
Sarah Lewis
George Morris Woodruff, Class of 1857, Memorial Lecture

Live captioning is unfortunately unavailable. Please email arch.info@yale.edu to request accessibility accommodations.

Spring 2021 public programming at the Yale School of Architecture is supported in part by the Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Lectureship Fund, the J. Irwin Miller Endowment, the David W. Roth and Robert H. Symonds Memorial Lectureship Fund, and the George Morris Woodruff, Class of 1857, Memorial Lectureship Fund.