Monday, September 23, 2019

The architect and educator Marina Tabassum speaks about her Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, an Aga Khan Architecture Award (2016) winning project. Tabassum also addresses the importance of local materials, climate, culture, and history in her work. She explains her aspirations in a wide range of projects, from cultural, leisure to several housing projects in the region of Dhaka.

Response by Kenneth Frampton

Monday, October 29, 2018

The architect and educator Kongjian Yu speaks in detail about rural agricultural landscapes, and a deep embrace of nature. He explains more about his ecologically and culturally sensitive projects. Yu explains the role of design and engineering in creating transformative forms. His research has been adopted by the Chinese government as the guiding theory for national land use planning, eco-city campaigns, and urban ecological restoration.

Response by Kenneth Frampton

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The architect, urban designer, and educator Rahul Mehrotra speaks about his work for clients that include government and non-governmental agencies, corporate, as well as private individuals and institutions. His firm RMA Architects has also initiated several unsolicited projects driven by the firm’s commitment to advocacy in the city of Mumbai. Mehrotra is a professor of urban design and planning at the Harvard GSD and has written and lectured extensively on architecture, conservation, and urban planning in Mumbai and India.

Monday, November 9, 2015

On the occasion of the fifth annual Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture, Mumbai-based architect and Principal of Studio Mumbai, which employed traditional materials, building techniques, and collaborations with local carpenters, stone masons, and craftspeople to realize the acclaimed Palmyra House and Tara House. Response by Ware Professor of Architecture Kenneth Frampton.

Brazilian architect Angelo Bucci presents the work of SPBR, the firm he founded in 2003, including House in Ubatuba: a remarkable reinforced concrete house suspended on three columns that overlooks the bay of Ubatuba. For the fourth annual Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture, this and other projects are considered within the legacy of Paulo Mendes da Rocha and João Batista Vilanova Artigas in Bucci’s home city of São Paulo.

Response by Kenneth Frampton

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Grafton Architects

In the third annual Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture, Grafton Architects Principals Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara explore the architect’s role as interpreter of various needs—from from site and space to language and culture—into built form. Drawing on their Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy, and a “new cliff” for the Universidad de Ingeniería & Tecnología (UTEC) that overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Lima, Peru, the architects grapple with highlighting difference, nuance, and social and cultural specificity over an “Esperanto” of architecture, and, recalling the language, literature, and visual metaphors of their native Ireland, question what is lost in translation.

Response by Kenneth Frampton