The department of Architecture invites you to join us for this semester’s

 _positions lectures:

Jenny French and Angela Pang

February 28^th from 12:00-1:30pm

Loeb Library Lobby

Michelle Chang and Ritchie Yao

March 5^th from 12:30-2:00pm

Loeb Library Lobby

George Legendre and John May

March 21^st from 12:30-2:00pm

Loeb Library Lobby

Jing Liu and Amin Taha

March 26^th from 12:30-2:00pm

Loeb Library Lobby

Antoine Picon and Andrew Holder

April 9^th from 12:30-2:00pm

Loeb Library Lobby

_positions is a series of conversations convened by the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design aimed at revealing the positions taken by players on the field of contemporary architecture. The series unfolds the complexity of relations and metaphors to make them explicit, inviting faculty and guests to voice where they stand. Participants are drawn from all facets of the discipline– practicing architects, designers, historians, scholars, theorists, technologists, and those in allied fields of design.

To think of architecture as a field entails a horizontal space where other participants are in view, but separated by gaps that can be measured relationally. _positions sees these metaphors as opening up a way of describing relationships in the field that are not exclusively dialectical, binary, or structured by irreconcilable difference. Taking a position on a field could mean seeking maximum difference, the most space, from one’s neighbors. It could also, though, mean piling on, gathering around, or finding mutualisms across gaps. _positions encourages debate with new spatial determinations, eliminating the prefix to encourage ways of describing these relationships: im-position, re-position, ap-position, post-position, inter-position, ex-position, dis-position, com-position, juxta-position, contra-position…

Click here to view the livestream of this event, access recordings of past events, and learn about future installments in the series