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January 8
6:30 PM
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Michael Maltzan
Scales of the City

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January 15
6:30 PM
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Momoyo Kaijima, Izzy Kornblatt, Lars Müller, 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
12 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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February 19
6:30 PM
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Jenny Jones
Radical Gardens of Love and Interconnectedness

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March 26
6:30 PM
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David Gissen
From Rehabilitation Architecture to the Anti-Eugenic City

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Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey
Making Plans: The Recent Work of O’Donnell + Tuomey

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April 9
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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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April 20
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New Red Order

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Lectures

Brendan Gill Memorial Lecture

Hal Foster

Utopia or Extinction

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This year’s Brendan Gill Memorial Lecture at the Yale School of Architecture, titled “Utopia or Extinction,” is delivered by Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. This lecture is the keynote lecture for the symposium Criticism in the New Commons, continuing on Friday, October 31.
Date

Thursday, October 30, 2025
6:30 PM

Location

Hastings Hall, basement level of Paul Rudolph Hall, 190 York Street


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Symposia
October 30, 2025 – October 31, 2025 6:30 PM

Merve Emre, Hal Foster, Christopher Hawthorne, Molly Heintz, Samuel Medina, Suzanne Stephens, Kate Wagner, and Oliver Wainwright
Criticism in the New Commons

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