The Harvard Symposia on Architecture 1: The Return of Nature

"The Sublime Plan." With Barry Bergdoll, K. Michael Hays, and Diane Lewis.

Barry Bergdoll is Professor of Architectural History at Columbia University and the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA. Author of such books as European Architecture 1750-1890 (2000) and Leon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry (1994), his exhibitions include Mies in Berlin (2001) and the forthcoming Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity.

K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the GSD, where he is Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD and DDes). His books include the forthcoming Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde and Sanctuaries, the Last Works of John Hejduk (2002). In 2008, he co-curated with Dana Miller Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe at the Whitney Museum.

Diane Lewis, Professor of Design at the Cooper Union School of Architecture and Rome Prize recipient, founded Diane Lewis Architect in 1982. Her work is internationally recognized, and includes commissions for the New York Studio School, the NYU School of Law and Givenchy. Diane Lewis: Inside-Out Architecture New York City was published in 2006.

The Return of Nature is the first of four Harvard Symposia on Architecture, an annual series of events which brings together architects, historians and theorists to consider the question of architecture's autonomy in relation to contemporary debates. Attached is a more in-depth description of this series. Co-Conveners: Preston Scott Cohen, Chair of the Department of Architecture, and Erika Naginski, Associate Professor of Architectural History.