Architecture of Illness, Spring 2025

Architecture of Illness, Spring 2025

The spring 2025 Franke Lectures in the Humanities follow the theme of the Yale College seminar “Architecture of Illness,” taught by Professor Fatima Naqvi and postdoctoral fellow Michelle Rada.

  • Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo, State University of New York), “Bauhaus Architectures of Illness, Health, and Race: Johannes Itten’s Mazdaznan Teaching at the Early Bauhaus”
  • Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University), “When Bacteria Rule the World: Notes Toward a Trans-species Architecture”
  • Eve Blau (Harvard Graduate School of Design), “Building Resistance”