Tomorrow's Berkman Luncheon Series: "Public Spaces/Public Spheres"

Martin Zogran is Assistant Professor of Urban Design in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and will speak to the Berkman Community about the history of the commons and public space (primarily in the context of the urban environment). Before joining the GSD faculty full-time in 2004, Zogran was an urban designer and architect with the Cambridge firm Chan Krieger & Associates, and a design critic at the GSD, teaching in the urban design core studio and offering seminars in urban theory. At Chan Krieger he managed urban design and planning projects for the cities of Louisville, Washington DC, Davenport, and New York, working on long-term development plans, streetscapes, and public space design.

To get a better sense of Zogran's work, please check out Zogran's H2O playlist. Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has developed H2O playlists -- a new tool for finding academic content through people you trust. In music, the playlist lets everyone share their expertise with friends and networks online. At the Berkman Center, we are extending this communal mapping of music to the world of information and educational resources.

Zogran's talk is part of the Berkman Luncheon Series, and will take place Tuesday, June 28, at 12:30pm in Berkman’s conference room.  The Berkman Center is located in Baker House at 1587 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Law School.

For more on Zogran, keep reading….

Zogran received his Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in architecture and art history from Rice University, after which he worked in Barcelona, Spain for two years on large-scale urban projects in Europe and the U.S., before returning to Rice to receive his Bachelor of Architecture degree. Subsequently he worked in the offices of Rafael Vinoly, and Margaret Helfand in New York City. Zogran was head of his own architectural firm in New York before coming to the GSD to earn his MAUD, which he received with distinction in 1999. His work has been published in Domus, Interior Design and Places magazines.