Annual Symposium Highlights

Abstract

The 3rd PhD Student Symposium, Buildings, Cities, and Performance, was organized by PhD Candidate Narjes Abbasabadi under the mentorship of Professor Rahman Azari and Dean Michelangelo Sabatino. On Friday, November 16, the building scientist and architectural educator Christoph Reinhart, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), opened the Symposium by delivering a keynote speech at S. R. Crown Hall. Paper presentations happened on Saturday during the day, and that night, PhD Candidate Daniel Whittaker organized a dinner for the participants of the Symposium at the Tadao Ando Gallery, Wrightwood 659, in Chicago. On Sunday, a group of participants enjoyed two architectural tours: the Farnsworth House (1951), designed by Mies van der Rohe in Plano, Illinois, and the Frederick C. Robie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Hyde Park, Chicago.