Lecture: The Politics of Architectural Labor


Join us on Thursday, March 23 in Crown Hall from 12:30 to 1:30 for an IIT Architecture Research Forum event, where Keefer Dunn will deliver the lecture “The Politics of Architectural Labor”.

The PhD Program’s Spring 2017 Architecture Research Forum speaker series brings to IIT Architecture the latest research by faculty, PhD candidates, visiting scholars and scholars from throughout Chicago and around the world.

Each presentation takes place between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. in room 216 at 3410 S. State Street on the campus of IIT Architecture.

For more information about this event and other events in this series, please visit the PhD Architecture Forum website here.

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