Boson, MA – Join the Boston Society of Architects for its 2010 fall series of community lectures. Mark your calendars today, and note the locations.
10/06 – A vision of history and culture
Free Lecture
David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA and Philip Freelon FAIA
Harvard University, Piper Auditorium at 6:00 pm
Chosen to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, these internationally renowned architects discuss their collaboration and the winning design. Co-sponsored by Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Loeb Fellowship Program at Harvard. This is an early-bird NOMA event.
Hosted by Audrey O’Hagan AIA
10/13 – Listening and willing
Conversations on Architecture
Brian MacKay-Lyons FAIA
$10 ($5 BSA members); Register
The Architects Building (52 Broad Street, Boston) at 7:00 pm
A leading proponent of regionalist architecture shares his perspective on how both listening to place and willing paradise are essential to a critical practice.
Hosted by Brian Healy AIA
11/03 – A line around an idea: The continuing relevance
of hand drawing in the Digital Age
Free Lecture
James Wines
Boston Public Library at 6:00 pm
Neither an anti-CAD polemic nor a “how to draw” seminar, Wines showcases the new hand-to-mouse interface in design delineation. This is the keynote event for Architects and Artists Collaborate, presented by the BSA Membership Enrichment Committee.
Hosted by Nazneen Cooper Assoc. AIA
11/10 – Housing: More or less
Conversations on Architecture
Neil Denari AIA
$10 ($5 BSA members); Register
The Architects Building (52 Broad Street, Boston) at 7:00 pm
In China, instant cities of epic proportions have emerged while singularly unique buildings have satisfied markets in places like New York, Dubai and London. Why is that?
Hosted by Brian Healy AIA
12/08 – Building the MFA
Conversations on Architecture
Michael Jones
$10 ($5 BSA members); Register
The Architects Building (52 Broad Street, Boston) at 7:00 pm
The first phase of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, expansion opens in November. Jones discusses how he balanced modernist aesthetics with 1909 Beaux Arts style.
Hosted by Brian Healy AIA
12/15 – Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Free Lecture
Nader Tehrani, Jane Weinzapfel FAIA and Nick Winton AIA
Boston Public Library at 6:00 pm
Three Harleston Parker Medal winners talk about the essence of beauty and how it is evoked by design and measured by its beholders.
Moderated by Sarah Goldhagen
Hosted by Nazneen Cooper Assoc. AIA
For more information on this BSA program,
visit www.architects.org/lectureseries