Fall 2023 public programs: Revolutions

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is thrilled to announce its fall 2023 public programs series. 

Revolutions/Resolutions
The 2023–24 public programs series will examine revolutions in the fall and resolutions in the spring. What is architecture’s role in revolutionizing or repairing broken systems? Join us in conversations that call for both incremental and radical shifts within our discipline, profession and society. 

Fall 2023: Revolutions
The fall highlights architects who, to borrow Toni Cade Bambara’s phrase, “make the revolution irresistible”*—artists and thinkers who challenge us to envision a multitude of approaches to making and being.

All events are free and open to the public. For more details please visit architecture.cmu.edu/public-programs or sign up for our newsletter.

EX-CHANGE 2023 launch and welcome back party
Friday, September 8, 2023

Issue launch: inter•punct Reconstructions
In conjunction with the inaugural Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, Saturday, September 9, 2023

Lecture and book signing: Sharon Egretta Sutton
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture, Parsons School of Design, Monday, September 11, 2023

Book launch: Designing the Computational Image: Imagining Computational Design
By Daniel Cardoso Llach & Theodora Vardouli, with the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Lecture: Ana María León
Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Friday, September 29, 2023

Convening: Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground exhibition
Presented by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Thursday–Friday, October 5–6, 2023

Symposium: Addressing Wicked Challenges: Colloquies for Transgenerational Collaboration
Part of the Systemic Design Association’s RSD12, Friday–Sunday, October 6–8, 2023 

Lecture: Andrew Santa Lucia
Assistant Professor of Practice, Portland State University; Director, Office Andorus, Monday, October 30, 2023

Friday Night Films
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020), with an introduction by activist and co-director Jim LeBrecht, Friday, September 22, 2023
Unfinished Spaces (2011), with an introduction by directors Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray, part of Pittsburgh Architecture Week, Friday, October 13, 2023
Radical Landscapes (2022) with an introduction by director Elettra Fiumi, Friday, October 27, 2023

Discussions of architecture and its agency to affect change led by students in Kai Gutschow’s Architectural Theory & Contemporary Issues seminar will be held on Wednesday, September 13 and Friday, November 10, 2023.

Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s Public Programs are organized by Sarah Rafson, Curator of Public Programs, in consultation with a faculty-student committee. The 2023-24 Public Programs Committee includes: Priyanka Bista, Daragh Byrne, Christi Danner, Stefan Gruber, Morgan Newman-Perry and Tommy CheeMou Yang.

*Toni Cade Bambara and Thabiti Lewis, “An Interview with Toni Cade Bambara: Kay Bonetti.” In Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012: 35.