History of Arts and Architecture

In his prints, sculptures, and films, multi-disciplinary artist Dario Robleto incorporates a deep fascination with science, history, sound, medicine, and human empathy. His 2024 film, “Ancient Beacons Long for Notice,” is currently installed at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in the exhibit, “An Invitation to Awe.” He will join Guest Curator Katy Smith Abbott in conversation, as they explore Robleto’s conviction that “awe is a courtship with the unknown.”

Reinstalling the Detroit Institutes of Arts Great Collection of American Art

Professor Hilderbrand will discuss the origins and contemporary implications of an activist practice of landscape architecture, facing head-on the twin crises of our time: climate and justice. Co-Sponsored by the Cameron Visiting Artist Fund.

“Colonnaded Streets and Urban Theater in the Later Roman Empire”

Grand, colonnaded avenues proliferated as never before in leading cities of the later Roman Empire. These new urban thoroughfares were costly and complex investments that transformed the appearance and the experience of the cityscapes they adorned. Usually willed into existence by the ruling regime, they lent themselves to new forms of political theater intended to project and promote the more autocratic style of rule adopted by emperors from the third century CE.

Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by John McLeod, Associate Professor of Architecture

Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Misty Kaplan, Visiting Instructor in Architecture

Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by John McLeod, Associate Professor of Architecture

Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Ben Allred, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture

Susan Rodriguez will discuss designing in the public realm and the creation of buildings and spaces that distill the essence of cultures and communities. She will share a series of projects that serve a diverse range of communities from off-the-the-grid rural locations to dense urban neighborhoods of New York City.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join our symposium guests, faculty, and members of Architecture Table (Middlebury College’s architecture club) for an informal discussion over lunch.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE STUDENTS ONLY

LUNCH PROVIDED

Architecture for All Website

Join our symposium guests, faculty, and members of Architecture Table (Middlebury College’s architecture club) for an informal discussion over lunch.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE STUDENTS ONLY

LUNCH PROVIDED

Architecture for All Website