Note: This event has been cancelled.

"Critical Messages" will present the framing polemic and the recent work of the Critical Broadcasting Lab, founded in 2018 at MIT by Ana Miljački. The Critical Broadcasting Lab is a space and a platform for the production of discursive interventions in architecture culture. Its key medium is the architectural exhibition, broadened to include experiments with the entire contemporary ecology of broadcasting media. As its inaugural work, the Critical Broadcasting Lab launched two initiatives: the Agit Arch series of workshops and I Would Prefer Not To, an ongoing, two-chapter oral history project.

Ana Miljački is a critic, curator and associate professor of architecture at MIT, where she teaches history, theory and design. Miljački directs the Master of Architecture program and the Architecture and Urbanism Group at MIT. She holds a PhD (2007) in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University, an MArch from Rice University and a BA from Bennington College. She was part of the three-member curatorial team, with Eva Franch i Gilabert and Ashley Schafer, of the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, where their project, OfficeUS, critically examined the last century of US architects’ global contribution. Her Un/Fair Use exhibition with Sarah Hirschman was on view at the Center for Architecture in New York in the fall of 2015 and at Berkeley University’s Wuster Gallery in 2016. In 2018, Miljački launched the Critical Broadcasting Lab at MIT, whose work Sharing Trainers was included in the São Paulo Architecture Biennale in the fall of 2019. The lab also presented the work of the option studio it hosted, Collective Architecture Studio, at the Seoul Architecure Biennale in the fall of 2019. Miljački is the author of The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938-1968 (Routledge, 2017), and the editor of Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange with Amanda Reeser Lawrence (Routledge, 2018). The Under the Influence symposium proceedings she edited were rereleased in December 2019 (Actar, 2019).

Top images: Photographs of "Sharing Trainers," a project mounted by the Critical Broadcasting Lab at the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo.