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”
