CURRENT LECTURES & EVENTS

 

Spring 2012
An Evening With...
Lecture Series & Events

February 13           
Formation of Marinid Madrasas and the Ornate Archiving of Sovereignty
Riyaz Latif
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT

March 9 at noon in room 3-133
Presentations by the recipients of the 2011-2012 Student Travel Grants
"The Style Will Be Indo-Saracenic": Walter Burley Griffin's 1936 Lucknow Exhibition and the Making of (Transnational) Civil Society
Shiben Banerji HTC PhD
Bukhara: the Case of Urban Amnesia
Hanna Rutkouskaya AKPIA@MIT SMArchS
Kampungs, Warungs and Super Sambal: Participatory Planning in Indonesia with Solo Kota Kita and UN Habitat
Stephen Kennedy MCP
Alice Shay MCP

March 19         
Modernity, Citizenship and Urban Space:
Public Beaches and Swimming Pools in Early Republican Istanbul
Sibel Bozdogan
Visiting Lecturer, AKPIA@MIT

April 2
The Art of Mediation:
Aesthetics and the Imagination in Islamic Ornamental Art
Samir Mahmoud
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AKPIA@MIT

April 9
African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture:
White Skin, Black Masks
Jonathan Noble
Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

April 23
Architectural Discontext
Makram el Kadi & Ziad Jamaleddine

Unless specified lectures are on Mondays at 6:00 pm
in the AVT, room 7-431. Free and open to the public.

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AKPIA at Harvard Conference, April 12-14, 2012
Ornament as Portable Culture: Between Globalism and Localism
See details about the conference

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