Κey information
- Topic: Dynamic Wholes
- Date: Monday, January 29, 2024, 12:30 p.m.
- Location: Vouleutiko, Staikopoulou (southwestern part of Syntagma Square), Nafplio
- Organized by: Department of Architecture, University of Patras, CHS Greece, under the auspices of the Municipality of Nafplio, and with the support of Achilleas and Constantza Konstantakopoulou
- Open to: All; students at the Department of Architecture in Patras are eligible for bus transportation
- Language: English
- Speaker: Sarah M. Whiting (Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)
- Activity Administration: Architecture Department's Administration Board (University of Patras), Christos Giannopoulos (CHS Greece)
About the event
Overview
The Department of Architecture of the University of Patras in collaboration with CHS Greece organize an event entitled "Dynamic Wholes" with the Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design as its speaker. The event will follow the visit of the Dean to the Center's headquarters and will take place at the Vouleutiko in Nafplio.
About the speaker
Sarah M. 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 obtained 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 is particularly interested in modern and contemporary architecture’s imbricated relationship with politics, economics, and society, and how the built environment shapes the nature of public life. Learn more about Sarah M. Whiting.