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Curators roundtable

May 1, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston

Museum curators from Greater Boston convene for a discussion of the BSA Space, its role in Boston’s cultural evolution and the potential knowledge and atmosphere architecture exhibitions can provide in general. Raymund Ryan (Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art) moderates. A reception will follow.

Participants include Joao Ribas (curator, MIT List Center for Visual Art); Ben Prosky (assistant dean for communications, Harvard GSD; co-founder, Architizer); Trevor Smith (curator, Peabody Essex Museum); and others.

Projecting the New Boston: From the MBTA to Expo ’76

May 11, 5:30 to 7:00 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston

In conjunction with the ongoing BSA Space exhibit IN FORM, architects Jan Wampler (MIT professor) and Charles Redmon FAIA (Cambridge Seven Associates principal) will discuss their work on two visionary regional design projects that marked the emergence of the New Boston in the 1960s.

The Expo ’76 project, led by Wampler and featured in Futures, proposed a megastructure to host a bicentennial exposition on a dense matrix of floating platforms in Boston Harbor.

The modernization of the MBTA system after 1965 by Cambridge Seven Associates, which is featured in The Legible City, was the first comprehensive transit design program in the United States, providing an information system of maps, wayfinding and graphics that is still in use today.

The free discussion will be moderated by Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and chair of the history department at Harvard University.