THE DISTINGUISHED IRWIN S. CHANIN PROFESSOR LECTURE

Diana Agrest will present a selection of works that define significant moments in the development of her practice. Organized conceptually, the works presented will focus on questions of urban form and its articulation through social, political, and ideological registers in discourse and as observed from actual contexts in relation to the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. Drawing from work that ranges in scale, from urban projects to the architecture object itself, while articulating connections to her critical work on urban and architectural discourse, Agrest illustrates the determinant role of urban form and culture on architecture.

Diana Agrest, FAIA is an internationally renowned architect, theoretician, author, educator and filmmaker. She is well known for her unique and pioneering critical approach to architecture and urbanism practice and theory She is a founding partner of Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects. Her designed and built projects ranging globally from urban projects, housing complexes and master plans to single family residences and interiors have received numerous awards. 

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Mpho Matsipa is a 2022 Loeb Fellow (Harvard GSD), educator, researcher and curator. She received her PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley and teaches Advanced Studio, History and Theory of Planning and Architecture, in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is a researcher at WiSER and co-investigator on an Andrew Mellon research grant on Mobilities, Temporalities and African Future Politics, which is housed by the African Center for Society and Migration Studies. She has written critical essays on art and architecture and curated several exhibitions and discursive platforms, including co-curating the South Africa Pavilion at the 11th and a collaborative art installation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibitions, Venice Biennale (2008; 2021); chief curator of African Mobilities at the Architecture Museum, Pinakothek der Modern in Munich (2018); and Studio-X Johannesburg, in South Africa (2014-2016).

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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES Nicolas Dorval-Bory: Energy, Matter, and Other Oddities

Nicolas Dorval-Bory (1980) is a French architect who graduated in 2007. After various collaborations in Santiago, Buenos Aires and Paris (2009-2013), his office Nicolas Dorval-Bory Architectes, located in Paris, operates today in a wide range of scales in France and abroad.

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The student program offers an inside look at the architectural profession, highlighting the varied and creative career paths open to graduates of architecture school.

In this video documenting a portion of the League’s 30th annual Student Program, presentations and a panel discussion offer insight into the careers and work of four practitioners —Delma Palma, Todd Palmer, Bo Liu, Andreas Kostopoulos — followed by a discussion moderated by League program director Anne Rieselbach.

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