Carnegie Mellon Architecture is delighted to announce its spring 2024 public programs.
Revolutions/Resolutions
The 2023–24 public programs series will examine revolutions in the fall and resolutions in the spring. 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.
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.
All events are free and open to the public. For more details please visit here. Keep an eye on this newsletter for weekly reminders about our events and additional event listings you might be interested in.
Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow-Wow)
Conversations on Practice and Pedagogy, Saturday, January 27, 2024, 1–4 p.m.
Lecture & Book Signing,* Monday, January 29, 2024, 5 p.m., Carnegie Museum of Art Theater. Register
Values in Practice
Lunch Discussion
With the seminar, Value-Based Design Introduction, taught by Bill Bates.
Monday, February 5, 2024
Conversations with Machines
Lecture & Workshop Series**
With Vernelle A. A. Noel (Situated Computation + Design Lab, CMU), Madeline Gannon (ATONATON), Jake Marsico (Deeplocal), and Audrey Desjardins (University of Washington, Studio Tilt).
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, 2024. Apply by Tuesday January 23.
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.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Hand Drawing: Why it Still Matters for Architects in the Digital Age
Symposium**
Keynote: Juhani Pallasmaa.
Supported by the Doug Cooper, A 1970, Fund for Drawing and Architecture.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Phillip Denny (Harvard GSD)
Bookmaking Workshop,* Thursday, February 22, 2024, 5 p.m. Apply by February 12.
Lunch Lecture, Friday, February 23, 2024, 12:30 p.m.
Vinu Daniel (Wallmakers)
Lunch Lecture
Supported by the Architecture–Engineering–Construction Management Program.
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:30 p.m.
Emmanuel Pratt (Sweet Water Foundation)
Lecture, Watson Chair in Architecture
Organized by the Remaking Cities Institute.
Friday, April 5, 2024, 5 p.m.
Architectural Workers United
Consensus-Building Workshop**
Monday, April 8, 2024. Register by April 1.
Multispecies Futures: Building a World of Many Worlds
Exhibition opening. Curated by Priyanka Bista (2022–24 Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor).
Friday, May 3, 2024
*Registration required.
**Zoom link available (registration required).
Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s Public Programs are organized by Sarah Rafson, Curator of Public Programs, in consultation with a faculty-student committee. The 2023–24 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 SoA 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.