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4/20/12, Cambridge Talks IV, ‘Over, Under, On: Architecture and the Earth’, Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA.
4/14/12, Opening of Modern Cartoonist : the Art of Daniel Clowes at the Oakland Museum of California; exhibit design by Nicholas de Monchaux
3/31/2012, Opening of The Utopian Impulse at SFMOMA, work by Nicholas de Monchaux, Iwamoto/Scott, Future Cities Lab, Stewart Brand, Ant Farm, and others.
3/28/2012, 7PM, Lecture at SCI-Arc,, Keck Lecture Hall, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles.
3/1/2012, 6:15 p.m. Kalil Smart Design Fellow Presentation, Parsons the New School for Design. Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue, NYC
2/10/12, 6:30PM — 2/11/12 5:00 PM Studio One Symposium, with Mark Smout, Mason White, Geoff Manaugh, Nataly Gattegno, David Gissen, and Liam Young.
10/28/2011, 7:00 PM, Groundwork : Between Landscape and Architecture, Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders in conversation with Benjamin Aranda, Nicholas de Monchaux, Anthony Vidler, and Marion Weiss. The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York.
10/28/2011, 1:30 PM Thrilling Wonder Stories 3, Hosted by the Architectural Association, London, and Columbia GSAPP’s Studio X New York, with Popular Science Magazine. New York’s friday afternoon lineup includes Nicholas de Monchaux, Bjarke Ingels, Seth Fletcher and Hari Kunzru. At Studio X / New York, 180 Varick St., 6th Floor. Read more on bldgblog.
10/27/2011, 7:00 PM Reading Room Exchange at Van Alen Books, 30 W. 22nd St., New York. In conversation with Cynthia Davidson.
9/14/2011, 51st national session of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design, Charleston, SC.
8/24/2011, launch of Berkeley’s inaugural Studio One, with Marco Cenzatti and Stefano Schiavon.
7/21/2011 New York Times Op-Ed
7/21/2011 The Guardian (UK) on Local Code and urban acupuncture
7/16/2011, Presentation on the history and future of Spacesuits in architecture, Osaka 70 to now; a part of the the Ultra Exposure Forum, Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, Saturday, July 16, 2011, 5:00-6:30 PM. With Sylvia Lavin, Elizabeth Diller, Rene Daalder, Machiko Kusahara and Hiroki Azuma.
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What if cities saw olympic-scaled events as a strategic stimulus, and not stagecraft? This design research project at the 
(with Thomas de Monchaux). Our cities are defined by two types of architecture; that which is seen as permanent, and therefore subject to a range of conservative pressures, and that which is seen as temporary, and therefore given spatial, and conceptual license. Yet our experience of the city is defined by a regular upending of this relationship; that which is seen as permanent, is often not — and that which is “temporary” regularly defines our long-term experience of the city. A 
What if the spaces and capacities of urban infrastructure were seen as a shared resource? As machines, or, to use a onetime synonym, organs, of urban robustness? This research project at the 
The events of September 11, 2001 forced the 