EVENT DESCRIPTION 

When COVID-19 hit America, the MIT community immediately leapt into action. Architecture alumni were integral to this effort on many levels, conceiving and delivering solutions at different scales in record time. Members of our community created surge facilities in hospitals (in collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers) to respond to the crisis; designed and prototyped low-cost ventilators in less than a month; and planned pandemic emergency operations for a major urban metropolis.

Please join us for an online panel discussion that will focus on the Course IV community’s response to the COVID-19 crisis—this will be the first of multiple events that will discuss: responses to the pandemic; the shape of life afterwards, and other topics seen through the filter of the Course IV alumni community.

EVENT PANELISTS

The panelists for this event will include:

Jeffrey Berman ’80 | Principal, Jeffrey Berman Architects
Marcel Botha SMArchS ’06 | CEO, 10XBeta
William Gilchrist ’77 M.Arch ’82 SM’82 | Director of Planning and Building for the City of Oakland, CA

EVENT MODERATORS

The event will be moderated and managed by MITArchA leaders:

Pamela Tang MArch '83, SMCE '85 | President and Northern California Representative
Marilys R. Nepomechie, M.Arch '83 | Southeast US Representative
Kenneth Namkung, M.Arch ‘03 | Vice President of Communications

EVENT NOTES 

The event is free for all MIT alumni. Click the Registration button above to receive the Zoom link for the event.

MITArchA members will be able to access the recorded webinar on MITArchA's Infinite Connection site.