The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Department of Architecture, and department chair Mark Lee, are pleased to announce two new lunch talk series, entitled “Books and Looks” and “Five on Five.” Centering around the importance of written architectural discourse, “Books and Looks” will convene GSD faculty, including historians, curators, and other professionals, through a series of paired discussions in which each guest will present a book or publication related to the field of architecture. Meanwhile, taking the “accumulation of knowledge” as a reference point, each installment in the series “Five on Five” will present two architects of contrasting backgrounds or experiences to each present five projects that haver been relevant during their career.
The series commenced on February 21, with a “Books and Looks” presentation featuring Design Critic in Architecture Pier Paolo Tamburelli, who took up the publication San Rocco, and K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, who discussed the journal Assemblage that he founded in 1986 and that ran until 2000.