Wednesday, February 28, 2024 5pm to 8pm
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1215 Theo Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables 33146
U-SoA Currents Lecture Series - SPECIAL EVENT: Harvard GSD Tackles Climate Resilience
Currents Lecture Series" hosts extraordinary research faculty from peer institutions.. This semester, we will be highlighting faculty from Florida Atlantic University with a special event featuring a team from Harvard GSD that will report on their research on resiliency in Miami. Co-hosted by the University of Miami School of Architecture and the Climate Resilience Academy.
How should Miami address the challenges of climate change, affordable housing, and mobility? How can it become more socially equitable and environmentally responsive?
These questions have formed the basis of a series of recent design studios, seminars, and publications conducted at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The initiatives, part of a larger undertaking on the Future of the American City, have been supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Several faculty members from the GSD will present the outcome of this research followed by a discussion.
Mohsen Mostafavi is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He served as the dean of the faculty of design between 2008 and 2019. An architect and educator, his work focuses on modes and processes of urbanization and on the interface between technology and aesthetics. Mostafavi is the author and editor of many books, including Ecological Urbanism (co-edited 2010 and translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish); In the Life of Cities (2012); Architecture is Life (2013); Nicholas Hawksmoor: The London Churches (2015); Portman's America & Other Speculations (2017); Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political (2017); and Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World (2023).
Eric Höweler, FAIA, LEED AP, is an architect, designer, and educator. He is currently Associate Professor in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches design studios and directs the Master of Architecture Thesis Program. Eric’s design work and research focuses on building technology integration and material systems.
Eric is co-founding principal and partner of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a research-driven studio of 25+ designers. HYA has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience and a sensitivity to tectonics. Current projects include the Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, and the Living Village residential college at the Yale Divinity School. Recent projects include the Memorial for Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial, and the MIT Museum.
He is the co-author of Expanded Practice (Princeton Architectural Press 2009) and Verify In Field: Projects and Conversations Höweler + Yoon (Park Books, 2021).
Höweler received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University in 1994, and a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in 1996.
Speakers Included:
Mohsen Mostafavi is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He served as the dean of the faculty of design between 2008 and 2019. An architect and educator, his work focuses on modes and processes of urbanization and on the interface between technology and aesthetics. Mostafavi is the author and editor of many books, including Ecological Urbanism (co-edited 2010 and translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish); In the Life of Cities (2012); Architecture is Life (2013); Nicholas Hawksmoor: The London Churches (2015); Portman's America & Other Speculations (2017); Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political (2017); and Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World (2023).
Eric Höweler, FAIA, LEED AP, is an architect, designer, and educator. He is currently Associate Professor in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches design studios and directs the Master of Architecture Thesis Program. Eric’s design work and research focuses on building technology integration and material systems.
Eric is co-founding principal and partner of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a research-driven studio of 25+ designers. HYA has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience and a sensitivity to tectonics. Current projects include the Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, and the Living Village residential college at the Yale Divinity School. Recent projects include the Memorial for Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial, and the MIT Museum.
He is the co-author of Expanded Practice (Princeton Architectural Press 2009) and Verify In Field: Projects and Conversations Höweler + Yoon (Park Books, 2021).
Höweler received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University in 1994, and a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in 1996.
Elizabeth Whittaker is an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she has been teaching Core Architecture Studios since 2009. Elizabeth is also the founding principal of MERGE architects, a practice that aims at developing contemporary craft, transforming typologies, and addressing social ecologies throughout the US. Her practice operates at multiple scales through commercial, institutional, retail, private residential, multi-family housing, graphic and furniture design. The office works side-by-side with teams of fabricators, artists, craftsmen and engineers to produce an architecture that embraces the art of making within a larger agenda: to re-define the urban and social boundaries in and around the city. The work combines both digital fabrication and the hand made by working through a cross-disciplinary as well a cross-production process.
The work of MERGE has been widely published both nationally and internationally and has received multiple awards over the years. Elizabeth is the recipient of the AIA Young Architects Award, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, the Architectural League of New York ‘Emerging Voices’ Award, and the recipient of Architectural Record’s 2017 Women in Architecture ‘Next Generation Leader’ Award – an honor bestowed upon one female architect in the U.S. each year.
Elizabeth graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design with Distinction. She approaches architecture as a discipline embedded in both practice and academia, and has taught design studios in several Architecture programs including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northeastern University, and the Boston Architectural College before coming to the GSD.
Charles Waldheim is a North American architect and urbanist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Waldheim’s research examines the relationships between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. On these topics, Waldheim is author, editor, or co-editor of numerous publications on these topics, including Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press) and The Landscape Urbanism Reader (Princeton Architectural Press). Waldheim developed the theory of landscape urbanism in response to the industrial economies and emergent ecologies of the American city. On this topic, he curates the Harvard GSD’s Future of the American City podcast series.
Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he directs the school’s Office for Urbanization. He also serves as the Ruettgers Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Waldheim is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Sanders Fellowship at the University of Michigan; and the Cullinan Chair at Rice University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.
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