31st Pietro Belluschi Lecture

Named after the MIT School of Architecture and Planning's celebrated former dean, the 31st Pietro Belluschi Lecture was delivered by David Chipperfield in Boston on 30 April.  In the lecture he reflects on architecture’s social responsibility in the face of market forces, calling for collective action, sustainable planning, and meaningful design to address today’s pressing challenges. In his opening remarks, David reflected that "the work of a studio isn’t always very coherent, and a lecture is an opportunity to try to give more order to one's ideas and, through the need to explain, to become clearer about one's own motives."

The lecture builds on the ongoing collaboration between Fundación RIA and MIT, with a particular focus on developing an  environmentally and socially just energy transition in the Eume River basin of Galicia.