Fall 2024 public program

MIT Architecture is pleased to announce our fall 2024 public program; a continuing conversation on where we are now, centered on our department’s convergence of design and research. 

This semester, MIT Architecture will explore the tangible and intangible conditions of place: a studio; a practice; construction technology; planetary intelligence; interrelations between individual body and community structures; learning from the past to design a better future; starting with the things we find; migrating materials; reimagining modernism; and desert Edens and urban landscape. At each event, we invite in-person visitors and remote audiences to study and question how architecture shapes the ways we make, and change, the world. These conversations shape our theme for the fall of 2024: Practice and the Perimeter.

This series is a collaboration between the faculty, staff, and students of MIT’s Department of Architecture, which includes architects, designers, urbanists, film makers, historians, critics, theorists, artists, social entrepreneurs, and experts in computation and building technology. MIT Architecture will also continue a collaboration with MIT’s Morningside Academy for Design.

Alongside these academic programs and public events, student- and faculty-run exhibits, publications and platforms expand our agenda. Fall 2024 features two exhibitions in our Keller Gallery: ANIMAL: A Listening Gym by Ash Fure and Xavi L Aguirre, opening September 20 and WORK-IN-PROGRESS by LOT-EK, opening November 8.

Events are held in-person, and streamed on our Youtube channel. We invite you to explore the full public program below and find more details including links to webcasts on our events calendar. Learn more about all we do at architecture.mit.edu.

Fall 2024 public program, MIT Department of Architecture

September 19: Dorte Mandrup
“The connectedness between place and form”

September 26: Jan De Vylder 

October 3: Melodie Yashar and Julian Ocampo

October 17: Vivian Loftness

October 23: DESIGN EARTH
Cosmograph: Speculative Tales for the New Space Age 
Exhibition Opening and Conversation with Evan Ziporyn and Michael John Gorman  
MIT Museum

October 23: Benjamin Bratton
Antikythera: A Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation, Keynote
In collaboration with Antikythera Think Tank, Berggruen Institute, MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MIT MAD), and MIT Press
MIT Media Lab

October 24: Lucy Orta

October 25: Planetary Sapience
Symposium
In collaboration with Antikythera Think Tank, Berggruen Institute, MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MIT MAD), and MIT Press
MIT Media Lab

October 29: Philippe Block
“Rethinking construction: Learning from the past to design a better future”
The Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design

November 7: WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND / The LOT-EK movie by Thomas Piper
Film screening

November 14: Sarah Lopez
“This Transnational Tie is Volcanic: Migrating Materials and the People that Carry Them in Mexico and the US”

November 21: Solano Benitez
The 30th Pietro Belluschi Lecture

December 4: Nicolas Fayad, Raafat Majzoub
Book launch: Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism

December 5: Martha Schwartz
The Ahmad Tehrani Symposium

Our fall 2024 public program is supported in-part by the Arthur H. Schein (1951) Memorial Fund.