Join us for our 2021 annual meeting! This event will be a unique chance to reconnect with fellow alumni, hear from the Head of the Department, and meet your incoming Board.
We will hear remarks from Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT, who will discuss the current state of the Department. This will lead into short presentations from the current MITArchA Board of Directors and reflections from Founding Members Jacob Kain M.Arch ’00 and Mina Marefat, D.Phil '88.
Afterwards, we will hear remarks from our incoming Co-Presidents William Gilchrist ’77, M.Arch’82, SM’82 and Constance Bodurow MCP’91, SM’91 regarding their vision for MITArchA before electing our incoming Board of Directors.
The event will conclude with a series of online breakout sessions for alumni, hosted by Board Members.
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Keynote presentation: Reflections on Year 1, featuring MIT Architecture Head, Professor Nicholas de Monchaux.
MITArchA board updates and elections
Breakout alumni conversations
MIT Architecture Head, Professor Nicholas de Monchaux
Nicholas de Monchaux is Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. He is a partner in the architecture practice modem, and a founder of the design technology company Local Software.
Until 2020 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley. De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural and urban history of the Apollo Spacesuit, winner of the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize, as well as Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). In 2012 he was named one of the “Public Interest Design 100” by Good Magazine.
His design work has been exhibited widely, including at the Biennial of the Americas, the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Lisbon Architecture Triennial, SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His work has been supported by MacDowell, the Santa Fe Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hellman Fund, and the Bakar Spark Fund. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.