KARAMUK KUO
The Bethune Lecture
March 6, 2024

May 4, 2023 | Bethune Lecture "Context is Everything."                                       

Brooks will cover her practice's recent work, with a focus on four ideals: civicness, authenticity, generosity, and beauty.

March 2, 2022

Débora Mesa Molina, principal of Ensamble Studio, discusses her firm's balance of imagination and reality, art and science, toward innovative typologies, technologies and methodologies that advance architecture with an interdisciplinary approach. Through their startup WoHo, they are developing ways to increase quality and affordability in architecture through the integration of offsite technologies.

Oct. 21, 2020

Architect and educator Jennifer Newsom presents this year's Bethune Lecture as she considers racial constructs in the built environment as openings for critical public engagement in design. Newsom is assistant professor of architecture with the University of Minnesota and co-founder of Dream The Combine, which creates art and architecture as sites of interaction. 

Oct. 16, 2019

Delivering this year's Bethune Lecture is Harvard GSD Dean Sarah Whiting. In "Time is money," she considers the time side of this mantra of capitalism, focusing on how contemporary theorizations of time affect architectural education and practice. 

Nov 7, 2018

Architect, designer, and educator Meejin Yoon presents "Signal To Noise," which questions how architecture can communicate, create space, and focus attention in the age of accelerated signals.

April 4, 2018

Clara Solà-Morales is associate professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture, ETSAB, UPC, and founder of Cadaval & Solà-Morales, a studio that operates as a laboratory for design driven by research and development.

March 30, 2016

Deborah Berke is the founder of the New York-based architecture and design firm Deborah Berke Partners. In July 2016 Deborah will become the Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University.