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The Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Public Programs presents:

Revolutions/Resolutions

Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

What is architecture’s role in revolutionizing or repairing broken systems? Join us in conversations that call for both incremental and radical shifts within our discipline, profession and society.

All events are free and open to the public. 

Sarah Rafson
CURATOR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS


Spring 2024

Resolutions

The spring public programs emphasize architects as mediators negotiating disparate modes of thought, creating common ground, and mitigating harm. We discuss how our work addresses critical sites and debates in the world around us; what it takes to articulate our values and stand by them.

Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow-Wow)
Conversations on Practice and Pedagogy
1–4 p.m., Saturday, January 27

Lecture & Book Signing*
5 p.m., Monday, January 29

***POSTPONED*** Values in Practice
With the seminar, Value-Based Design Introduction, taught by Bill Bates.
Lunch Discussion
ORIGINAL DATE: 12:30 p.m., Monday, February 5, NEW DATE TBA.

Conversations with Machines
With Vernelle A. A. Noel (Situated Computation + Design Lab, CMU), Madeline Gannon (ATONATON), Jake Marsico (Deeplocal), and Audrey Desjardins (University of Washington, Studio Tilt)
Lecture & Workshop Series*△
Supported by the Computational Design Program and the 2023-2024 Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
February 2–4

Brian MacKay-Lyons (MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects) & Anssi Lassila (Office for Peripheral Architecture)
Dual Lecture
Supported by the Doug Cooper, A 1970, Fund for Drawing and Architecture
5 p.m., Thursday, February 15

Hand Drawing: Why it Still Matters for Architects in the Digital Age
Keynote: Juhani Pallasmaa
Symposium*△
Supported by the Doug Cooper, A 1970, Fund for Drawing and Architecture
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m, Saturday, February 17

Phillip Denny (Harvard GSD)
Bookmaking Workshop*
5 p.m., Thursday February 22

Lunch Lecture
12:30 p.m., Friday, February 23 

Vinu Daniel (Wallmakers)
Lunch Lecture
Supported by the Architecture–Engineering–Construction Management Program
12:30 p.m., Friday, March 29

Emmanuel Pratt (Sweet Water Foundation)
Watson Chair in Architecture
Lecture
Organized by the Remaking Cities Institute
5 p.m., Friday, April 5

Architectural Workers United
Consensus-Building Workshop*△

12:30, Monday, April 8

Multispecies Futures: Building a World of Many Worlds
Curated by Priyanka Bista (2022-24 Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor)
Exhibition Opening
Friday, May 3

*Registration required. △ Zoom link available.


The School of Architecture’s Public Programs are organized by Sarah Rafson, Curator of Public Programs, in consultation with a faculty-student committee. The 2022-23 Public Programs Committee includes: Priyanka Bista, Daragh Byrne, Christi Danner, Stefan Gruber, Morgan Newman-Perry and Tommy CheeMou Yang.

Fair Employment Policy
To participate in public programs, the School of Architecture requests that all invited professionals acknowledge that they do not use unpaid architectural interns in their professional practice and that they properly compensate all employees (including students) in compliance with federal wage laws.