Join us for an hour-long discussion between educator and design critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The discussion will explore topics of globalism and its ramifications for and influences on a broad spectrum of the design practices, from landscape to urban planning. These topics are presented in the recently published Today’s Global, Harvard Design Magazines 50 for which Whiting was a guest editor and Ouroussoff was a contributor.
Speakers:
Nicolai Ouroussoff, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
About the Speakers:
Nicolai Ouroussoff is a writer and critic living in New York. He is currently completing a book on architecture, culture and politics from the First World War to today, which will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Since 2011 he has taught on modern and contemporary architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Strelka Institute in Moscow and the Columbia University graduate school of architecture. From 2004 to 2011 he was the architecture critic of The New York Times, were he wrote widely on architecture and urbanism in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in both 2006 and 2011. Previously, he was the architecture critic of The Los Angeles Times, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and again in 2004 for a series on the cultural decline of Baghdad. He received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in May 1985, and a master’s degree from the Columbia University graduate school of architecture in May 1992. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1962.
Sarah Whiting has been Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 2019. She is also a design principal and co-founder of WW Architecture, based in Cambridge, and served as the Dean of Rice University’s School of Architecture from 2010 to 2019. Whiting received an interdisciplinary, self-directed Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale, a Master of Architecture from Princeton in 1990, and a Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture from MIT in 2001. Whiting’s research and writing is broadly interdisciplinary, with the built environment at its core. An expert in architectural theory and urbanism, she has particular interests in modern and contemporary architecture’s relationship with politics, economics, and society and how the built environment shapes the nature of public life.
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Organized by
AIANY Global Dialogues Committee and Harvard Graduate School of Design