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Leading architects, landscape architects, planners, educators and designers gather to discuss the current state of architecture in the BSA’s monthly “Conversations on Architecture” series hosted by Brian Healy AIA. Events are held at The Architects Building and are open to all.
On April 29, Peter MacKeith, associate dean and associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, discusses the vitality and diversity of contemporary Norwegian architecture and its response to geology, climate, cultural history and purpose.
Since receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to Finland in 1989, MacKeith has acted as a liaison between the architecture cultures of the United States and the Nordic nations. He has workedunder the auspices of Washington University’s International Center for Advanced Research in Environment and Sustainability as a funded researcher focusing on the design, development and performance standards of low-energy/low-carbon architecture in the United States, the Nordic countries and throughout Europe.
 Reserve your place for the April 29, 7:00 pm event.
The $10 fee ($5 for BSA members and full-time students) covers the cost of food and drink.
Urban design, human computer interfaces, electronic media and the design of public spaces are the focus of architect and civil engineer Carlo Ratti’s May 12 “Conversations on Architecture” talk.
Ratti practices architecture in Turin, Italy and teaches at MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. A new research initiative within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, the lab studies how the increasing deployment of sensors and handheld electronics is allowing a new approach to the way we describe and understand cities as well as the tools we use to design them and the impact on their physical structure.
In addition to having his work exhibited in leading museums worldwide—including the Kunsthaus Graz, Venice Biennale, MoMA and Design Museum Barcelona—Ratti has co-written more than 100 scientific publications and holds several patents. His Digital Water Pavilion at the World Expo 2008 was hailed by Time as one of the “Best Inventions of the Year” and, in December 2008, he was included in Esquire’s “Best & Brightest” list. Ratti is Queensland’s 2009 innovator in residence and was named one of the 20 people who will change the world of design in 2010 by Blueprint magazine.
- SHIFTboston
- Michael McKinnell FAIA, RIBA
- Paul Nakazawa AIA
- Ada Louise Huxtable (interviewed by Robert Campbell FAIA)
- Rahul Mehrotra
- Mack Scogin FAIA
- Robert Miklos FAIA
- Robert McCarter
- Kiel Moe, Assoc. AIA
- Jim Cutler FAIA
- Ann Beha FAIA
- Ed Schlossberg
- Warren Schwartz FAIA and Mark Schatz AIA
- Adèle Naudé Santos FAIA
- Jonathan Segal FAIA
- Hashim Sarkis
- Steve Kieran FAIA
- Merrill Elam AIA
- Stan Anderson AIA
- Stefan Behnisch
- Charles Rose AIA
- Kelly Wilson
- Robert Taylor AIA and Carol Burns AIA
- Kevin Daly AIA
- Preston Scott Cohen
- urban planner Ken Greenberg
- Rodolfo Machado, Assoc. AIA
- Jorge Silvetti, Assoc. AIA
- Sheila Kennedy AIA
- Frano Violich AIA
- John Fernandez AIA
- Sarah Whiting
- Ron Witte
- Jonathan Levi FAIA
- Nader Tehrani
- Maryann Thompson AIA
- landscape architect Doug Reed FASLA
- Gary Hilderbrand FASLA
- Tim Love AIA
- Ted Szostkowski AIA
- Alex Anmahian AIA
- Nick Winton AIA
- Bill Rawn FAIA
- Meejin Yoon
- Peter Rose AIA
- Chris Reed ASLA
- Mark Goulthorpe
- Ed Mitchell AIA
- Brian Healy AIA
- MIT’s Yung Ho Chang
- Andrea Leers FAIA
- Jane Weinzapfel FAIA
- landscape architect Michael Boucher
- Jennifer Siegal
- Ann Pendleton-Jullian
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