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At Northeastern we bring together a very strong faculty, which excels in both practice and research, with an explicit mission to engage the practical problems of the contemporary city. Free and open to the public

January 23: Jane Amidon, "Contemporary Urban Landscape"

January 30: Stratton Newbert of Buro Happold, "Recent Work"

February 6: Chris Reed of StoSS, "Landscape Urbanism in Practice"

March 26: Eric Höweler, Höweler + Yoon Architecture "Fail Fast"

April 2: Dr Catherine Burke, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and Dr Jeremy Howard, Art History, University of St Andrews "The Decorated School"

10/30/2026

• Learning through the Landscape •

Students in Landscape Ecologies for Coastal Communities explored the relationship between landscape, ecology, and climate resilience through a study of the Kennebec River Watershed and Bath, Maine.

Working in collaboration with Envision Resilience , students developed landscape-based strategies addressing climate vulnerabilities, strengthening local ecosystems, and integrating green infrastructure to support resilient coastal communities.

Taught by: Sara Carr Sara Jensen Carr and Michelle Laboy Michelle Laboy

Featured work by: Joseph Quan joe quan 關巧思 , Richard Pinch Richard Pinch , Anna Levesque anna_levesque , Lillian Smeraldo

10/21/2026

• GB ROCS! Three Perspectives on Greater Boston’s Regional Offsite Construction Strategy •

Professor Ivan Rupnik will be moderating a discussion on the innovations enabling and accelerating offsite construction in and around Greater Boston - where things stand, and where they’re headed. The conversation will start with recent national developments, then turn to three speakers, each building a local tool with national implications.

First, Adam Ploetz of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), on MAPC’s Greater Boston Regional Offsite Construction Strategy (GB ROCS), now midway through its six-year development process. Then Vikas Enti, CEO of Reframe Systems, who recently opened the company’s first microfactory in Billerica. And finally Paige Roosa, Director of the City of Boston’s Housing Innovation Lab, on the Welcome Home Boston program.

Prof. Rupnik has asked each speaker to level-set in two ways: how their tool differs from the more familiar version of it - a regional plan, a factory, a housing program - and what their local innovation means for the national housing conversation.

Presentations will be followed by a discussion among the speakers, then an open Q&A.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Cabral Center, Northeastern University - 40 Leon Street,
Boston, MA 02115
November 3, 12:00-1:30 PM

10/19/2026

• Urban Housing Project •
By: Ada Baş

This project explores how new housing can be inserted into the tight urban fabric of a Boston neighborhood. Designed as a narrow, multistory intervention, the proposal fits between existing residential buildings while creating new relationships with the surrounding street and alley.

The design is organized vertically, using layered interiors and carefully placed windows to shape circulation, daylight, and views. Its compact footprint and vertical form explore how a constrained site can accommodate a range of living spaces within an established neighborhood.

Through plans, sections, physical models, and renderings, the project examines the relationship between individual homes and the larger urban context, considering how new housing can contribute to the density and everyday life of Boston’s neighborhoods.

Instructor: John David Todd of WOJR

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10/06/2026

Fall Lecture Series

Kim Holden is a registered architect, certified birth and postpartum doula, educator, and maternal health advocate exploring how the built environment shapes birth experiences, autonomy, trauma, and health outcomes. She is the founder of Doula x Design (“doula by design”) and an original Founding Principal of SHoP in New York City.

Kim’s work is rooted in the belief that improving maternal health begins with meeting people, and systems, where they are. Through clear storytelling and deeply human examples, she makes complex conversations about healthcare, trauma, equity, and design accessible to audiences well beyond architecture and medicine. She invites people to see birth not simply as a “women’s issue,” but as a shared societal concern that reveals how we design systems, shape experiences, and care for one another.

Kim served as the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University and is currently a Shaw Innovation Fellow Advisor at the University of New England, where she guides research on maternal health and supportive birth environments. She serves on the Board of The Birthing Place Foundation and co-founded the Mobilize Maternal Health Coalition, both based in The Bronx, New York. Born and raised in New England, Kim serves on the AIA Maine Program Committee and is Vice President of Architalx, a Portland, Maine based lecture series celebrating its 40th anniversary season.

Friday, October 9th
12:00-1:30 pm
EV 024

10/02/2026

TODAY! 5-7 pm Ryder Gallery
Book Launch & Exhibition Opening

Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary

Using the launch of Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary by Felipe Correa, Anthony Averbeck, and Devin Dobrowolski as a point of departure, the exhibition transforms more than one hundred architectural drawings from the book’s ten thematic chapters, generating conversations about domesticity and urban life.

Book sales provided by the Northeastern Bookstore.

Anthony Averbeck
Felipe Correa / Somatic
Devin Dobrowolski

Ph: Randy Crandon

10/01/2026

• The Fall ‘26 Lecture Series lineup is here! •

Don’t miss the guest speakers coming to The School of Architecture at Northeastern University this fall:

- 10:09: Kim Holden, Doula x Design: Reimagining Birth Through Design.

- 11/03: Visas Enti, Reframe Systems; Paige Roosa, Mayor’s Housing Innovation Lab: GB ROCS! Three Perspectives on Greater Boston’s Regional Offsite Construction Strategy.

- 11/13: Jason Forney, Bruner/Cott Architects: From Adaptive to Transformative: the Evolution of Building Reuse.

Save the dates for amazing conversations!

09/14/2026

• Faculty Spotlight •

The research of The School of Architecture at Northeastern University Professor H. Killion Mokwete was featured in The Economist and Esri . The two articles cover Prof. Mokwete’s work on building the African Built Heritage Hub, a digital repository of architectural heritage in West Africa’s countries.

“The idea is to create a space where we can partner with local groups in the African context- primarily the francophone countries of West Africa- in order to document and digitalize architectural built heritage,” said Prof. Mokwete.

The team led by Prof. Mokwete used Lidar scanners and GIS technologies to create a dynamic repository of imagery and knowledge about culturally and historically significant sites across Africa, all in partnership with local community groups.

“There’s just so much potential for impact in the African context… So much that has not been done and has not been digitalized and mapped. There’s such a need and there are partners that areare willing,” Prof. Mokwete said.

Congratulations, Prof. Mokwete, for such impactful research work!

09/10/2026

• Donuts with the Dean! •

Join The College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University dean Ben Knapp for a conversation and FREE DONUTS. Everyone is invited!

Tuesday, September 15
9:30-10:30am
Snell 160

07/17/2026

Two The School of Architecture at Northeastern University professors, Sara Jensen Carr Sara Jensen Carr and Zorana Matić zmić were nominated to join ACSA 2026 Cohort of Spatial Determinants of Health.

According to ACSA, “this cohort brings together twelve architecture faculty whose research explores the spatial determinants of health and seeks to strengthen its impact on public discourse and policy. They will participate in The OpEd Project’s online “Write to Change the World” workshops, connecting participants with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, voices, and ideas. The cohort members will be researching and writing articles that examine the relationship between the built environment, human health, and well-being, as well as architecture’s role in shaping healthier communities.”

We are thrilled to see Professors Jensen Carr and Matić’s research bring such broad impact!

07/09/2026

We are excited to share that Jess Montgomery jess and Hannah Chung’s project TENDING THE GRID won a BSLA Student Award!

An investigation into the plausibility of block-scale food sovereignty, Tending the Grid envisions an urban form and redevelopment strategy within a food-forest/housing superblock. The project reimagines parking lots in Mission Hill, building upon Boston’s legacy of social movements from the 1960s through early 2000s that transformed vacant lots into nodes of nourishment.

Food embodies the interplay between human, social, and ecological systems. People live in, work in, and occupy the city; the tools they need to do so — food tools — ought to be near and under their autonomous direction. Following this understanding, an urban block foregrounding food production in spatial and conceptual proximity to food consumption could provide physical and psychological urban resilience in the climate crisis.

Tending the Grid imagines a comprehensive social production of space in its planning for scalar maintenance capacity and temporal understanding of how infrastructure scaffolds neighborly resilience.

Instructor: Sara Jensen Carr

Congratulations, Jess and Hannah!

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