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January 8
6:30 PM
6:30 PM

Michael Maltzan
Scales of the City

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Gallery Talks
January 15
6:30 PM
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Momoyo Kaijima, Izzy Kornblatt, and Joan Ockman
The Architect as Photographer: Observation, Research, and Pedagogy

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January 16
5 PM
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Anne Lacaton
Principles of Optimism

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January 23 – January 23
10 AM
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How can we build relation?

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February 5
6:30 PM
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Nathaniel Kahn, Yael Melamede, Anita Naughton, Jim Venturi, and Denise Zmekhol
Biography and Building: Film-Makers on Lives of Architects

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Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Lecture
February 19
6:30 PM
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Jenny Jones
Radical Gardens of Love and Interconnectedness

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March 26
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David Gissen
From Rehabilitation Architecture to the Anti-Eugenic City

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April 2
6:30 PM
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Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey
Making Plans: The Recent Work of O’Donnell + Tuomey

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Tatiana Bilbao and Dolores Hayden in conversation

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Peter de Bretteville
Teaching and Architecture

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6:30 PM
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New Red Order

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Colloquia

Peter Eisenman

Bramante + Stirling

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Peter Eisenman is the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at the Yale School of Architecture. Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator. The principal of Eisenman Architects, he has designed large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and a series of inventive private houses. His current projects include the six-building City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and a large condominium housing block in Milan, Italy. Mr. Eisenman has taught at Cambridge University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Ohio State University, and The Cooper Union. His many books include Eisenman: Inside Out, Selected Writings 1963–1988; Written into the Void, Selected Writings 1990–2004; Tracing Eisenman; and Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques. From 1967 to 1982 he was the director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City, which he founded.
Date

Friday, November 17, 2017
1 PM

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Peter Eisenman speaking to students.
Image by Meghan Royster.
Peter Eisenman speaking to students.
Image by AJ Artemel.
Image comparing Bramante to James Stirling.
Image by AJ Artemel.
Peter Eisenman speaking to students.
Image by AJ Artemel.