Upcoming Lectures & Talks
4 upcoming lectures and talks from Boston Society for Architecture, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Wed Oct 14 · 5:00pm
Anas Soufan, an assistant professor, artist, architect and urban planner who specializes in managing historic towns and world heritage sites, speaks in the Wentworth School of Architecture and Design’s public lecture series, whose fall 2026 theme is “Design Futures: From Fictions to Environments.” The listing, cross-posted by the Boston Society for Architecture, gives no topic for the talk beyond the speaker’s biography.
Wed Oct 21 · 5:00pm
Ignacio Cardona gives the Faculty Spotlight lecture in the Wentworth School of Architecture and Design’s public lecture series, which runs this fall under the theme “Design Futures: From Fictions to Environments.” His practice and scholarship center on urban and environmental planning built on Spatial Opportunities, Restorative Community Design and self-production as a form of development. The listing names no specific topic for the talk.
Wed Oct 28 · 5:00pm
Mingming Zhao, a design researcher in neuroarchitecture, combines EEG, immersive virtual environments and deep learning to study how people perceive and respond to space. Her doctoral research at CUHK’s School of Architecture produced AffectScope, a framework for multimodal architectural evaluation in stress-sensitive settings. The talk belongs to the Wentworth School of Architecture and Design’s public lecture series, themed this fall “Design Futures: From Fictions to Environments.”
Thu Nov 12 · 5:00pm
Alan Ricks, founding principal and co-executive director of MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society), gives a guest lecture in Wentworth's School of Architecture and Design fall series, Design Futures: From Fictions to Environments, which asks how designers construct the environments where imagined worlds become real. MASS's work includes the Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
