Fall 2023 Public Programs
REVOLUTIONS
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.
The fall highlights architects who, to borrow Toni Cade Bambara’s phrase, “make the revolution
irresistible”ⁱ — artists and thinkers who challenge us to envision a multitude of approaches to
making and being.
THEMES
⁕ Revolutions in Print ⁕
▤ Shifting Perspectives ▤
▲ Friday Night Films ▲
★ Discussions ★
Symposium: 2023 Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Exhibition: Containment, Care + Community
On view September 5–September 10, 2023
CAS Event: Thursday September 7, 2023 | 5–7pm ET
EX-CHANGE 2023 Launch & Welcome Back Party
Friday, September 8, 2023 | 5–8pm ET
Issue launch: inter•punct “Reconstructions” ⁕
In conjunction with the inaugural Pittsburgh Art Book Fair
Saturday, September 9, 2023 | 2pm ET
Discussion: Approaches to Activism ★
Hosted by the Architectural Theory & Contemporary Issues seminar
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 12:30–1:30pm ET
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) ▲
Introduction by activist and co-director Jim LeBrecht
Part of the Friday Night Film Series
Friday, September 22, 2023 | 5–7pm ET
Book Launch: Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design ⁕
By Daniel Cardoso Llach & Theodora Vardouli, with the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 5–7pm ET
Lecture: Ana María León
Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Friday, September 29, 2023 | 12:30–1:45pm ET
Reception: Impossible Music Exhibit
Hosted by the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art
Friday, September 29, 2023 | 6:30–8pm ET
Convening: Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground Exhibition ▤
Presented by the Carnegie Museum of Art
Thursday–Friday, October 5–6, 2023
Symposium: Addressing Wicked Challenges: Colloquies for Transgenerational Collaboration ▤
Part of the Systemic Design Association’s RSD12
Friday–Sunday, October 6–8, 2023
CANCELLED Unfinished Spaces (2011) ▲
Introduction by directors Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray
Part of the Friday Night Film Series
Friday, October 13, 2023 | 5–7pm ET
Radical Landscapes (2022) ▲
Introduction by director Elettra Fiumi
Part of the Friday Night Film Series and Pittsburgh Architecture Week
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 5–7pm ET
Lecture: Andrew Santa Lucia
Assistant Professor of Practice, Portland State University; Director, Office Andorus
Monday, October 30, 2023 | 5–7pm ET
RESCHEDULED Lecture & Book Signing: Sharon Egretta Sutton ⁕
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture, Parsons School of Design
Friday, November 3, 2023 | 12:30–1:45pm ET
Discussion: Wrapping Up the Series ★
Hosted by the Architectural Theory & Contemporary Issues seminar
Friday, November 10, 2023 | 12:30–1:30pm ET
ⁱToni Cade Bambara and Thabiti Lewis, “An Interview with Toni Cade Bambara: Kay Bonetti.” In “Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara”. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012: 35.
