Evangelos Kotsioris is the Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment and a Curator in the Department of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. On March 3 at 6:00 p.m., the Art Department will be hosting an Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture by Evangelos Kotsioris entitled The (Secret) Life of Architecture.

Buildings gain meaning through the lives that unfold within them—the daily rituals, improvised uses, and personal attachments that animate space. Can exhibitions become tools not only for conveying the intentions of architects, but also for revealing the lived afterlives of buildings? Drawing on recent curatorial research and displays at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, this talk will consider the museum as a pedagogical space, where architectural knowledge is staged, debated, and re-learned. By attending to use, memory, and care, students are invited to reconsider design as an ongoing process—one that continues long after the building is built.

Sponsored by the Art Department.

This event is free and open to the public.