When in town, don't miss today's lecture by architect and curator Nora Akawi starting at noon at Harvard GSD.. gsd.harvard.edu/event/nora-aka…

Ik hoop dat het een hoax is, of een stomme vergissing, maar waarom louter en alleen maar mannen op het programma voor een congres over 'de kracht van de Nederlandse architectuur' de Architect Harm Tilman? Of vul je de lijst nog aan? Tijd genoeg. arc-talks.nl/programma Rijksbouwmeester

Today I’ll reflect on ‘Spaces of Solidarity’ from 11:00 at Harvard GSD. Open to all spacesofsolidarity.org/announcements-…

"Onvrede binnen architectuurwereld wegens sprekerslijst voor symposium bestaande uit enkel witte mannen" Goed zo mark minkjan, Christine de Baan en alle anderen.. volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/…

Coming Tuesday Oct. 30 I'll be giving a talk for the Risk and Resilience dept. of Harvard GSD, titled 'Design beyond Despair'. I'll talk about Failed Architecture, the IABR, Places Of Hope, the Post-Fossil City Contest and other projects. Starts 17:00. Open to all! Free pizzas!!

The time is right. "The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal" by Naomi Klein theintercept.com/2018/11/27/gre… #hope #GreenNewDeal

Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture writes @jmcwhrtr on Failed Architecture website. Raises important questions and reminds me of Richard Sennett's critique of BjarkeIngels' 'Dryline' plan. Curious to hear Henk Ovink's thoughts on it. failedarchitecture.com/stop-seeing-cl…

Opportunity of a lifetime... Apply now for the The Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard GSD. Open to all practitioners whose work focuses on improving the built and natural environment. The deadline for applications is January 4, 2019. loebfellowship.gsd.harvard.edu/apply-nominate…

My review of 'Orphanage Amsterdam - Building and Playgrounds by Aldo van Eyck' for the The Architectural Review is now available online architectural-review.com/essays/book-of… Thank you Eleanor Beaumont for the opportunity

Great project by Kordae Jatafa Henry Jatafa Henry and Rose Florian (and collaborators): "JUST NØT THE SAME is a digital catalog comprised of the misrepresented and the under-acknowledged, the populations that are so absent in traditional design imagery. justnotthesame.us

PUSH is a new documentary investigating why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore. Who are the players and what are the factors that make housing one of today’s most pressing world issues? With a.o. (Leilani Farha 🍉, Saskia Sassen and Ada Colau 💜🌈🔻 pushthefilm.com

Will be speaking about a.o. the origins of Failed Architecture and the role of an invisible friend next week in Montreal at CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture... Hope to see some of you there. And thank you Hieronymus Borscht for the invitation!

Next week I’ll be co-hosting the first Body Building Workshop Harvard GSD with Arianna Mazzeo and Malkit Shoshan. We will be exploring architecture with all the senses. Open to students and others. For more info see the flyer or DM me

Important initiative. A Call for Curriculum Change: "Dear friends and colleagues, Our education has a key role to play in addressing the ongoing ecological crisis..." Sign now: architectureeducationdeclares.com ORCAHarvard @DivestHarvard Harvard GSD Harvard University Center for the Environment

Should we stop building airports? theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Honoured to be one of the speakers during the final presentation of the Socially Engaged Design for Disaster Relief workshop in Athens that will take place in the Peiraios The Benaki Museum this Friday November 8th from 17:00. Hope to see some of you there: heliarch.gr/event/5600?fbc…

“The ideal of development-as-growth has been worn out. (...) Rarely has a myth been buried so quietly. What point is there in development, if there is no country that can be called “sustainably developed”? z33.be/en/artikel/the… via Z33

Paulo Freire on progressive education in ‘Pedagogy of Hope’, Bloomsbury, 1992

Woman teaching geometry, 1308-1315, Paris; British Library. “An unusual medieval representation of a woman teaching a group of men how to use a compass to measure distances on a diagram.” Today, only 12% of all registered architecture offices in Holland is headed by a woman.

Excited for the new Loeb fellows Congratulations veyom bahl Karen Blondel andrea bolnick stephanie hankey mrwillhunter @matsipa_mpho Monica Rhodes Moddie Turay Michael Uwemedimo & Jordan Weber The Loeb Fellowship Harvard GSD loebfellowship.gsd.harvard.edu/fellows-alumni…