Please join us for the 12th Annual Victor C. Mahler '54 Visiting Architects Lecture Series, Raw / Frame / Form: on material logics and constructive play.
This dual lecture and panel discussion will take place at 4:30 p.m. this Wednesday, May 6, in Dartmouth Hall 105.
How do artists, architects, and ecologists shape forms, structures, and environments in a rapidly changing world?
Raw / Frame / Form: on material logics and constructive play is a dual lecture and panel featuring Emmett Zeifman (Stanford), who examines Material Forms in Architecture through the subject of Newer Brutalism (Log Journal, 2025), and Jon Lott (Harvard), who offers a philosophical inquiry into creating and experiencing space through the concept of Proximities (Park Books, 2026). Moderated by Zenovia Toloudi (Dartmouth), the event foregrounds a shift beyond surface aesthetics toward construction as a visible and legible act—where spatial outcomes emerge through processes of assembly, material agency, and ecological relations. Across the contributions, these conditions become a site of constructive play, where ephemerality and coexistence unfold across natural and social milieus.
This lecture is made possible by the generous support of the Victor C. Mahler 1954 Visiting Architects Fund.