TAKK—Mireia Luzárraga
Building W41 (MET Warehouse), Room 1216, 3 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free
TAKK—Mireia Luzárraga (in collaboration with the MIT Morningside Academy for Design) Part of the MIT Fall 2026 Architecture Lecture Series. Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Group Unlearning the Anthropocene Architecture after Human Exceptionalism The lecture presents TAKK's design methodology through a selection of research and built projects that challenge anthropocentric assumptions in contemporary architecture. Integrating feminist thought, political ecology, and low-embedded-carbon material practices, it explores how critical theory becomes a design tool for questioning inherited spatial paradigms. Through research, experimentation, and construction, the lecture proposes architecture as a practice of negotiating new relationships between humans, other living beings, materials, and environmental systems, imagining more just, regenerative, and multispecies futures. Mireia Luzárraga is an architect, researcher, educator, and co-founder of TAKK, an architecture and research practice based in Barcelona and New York, together with Alejandro Muiño. Her work explores the intersection of architecture, ecology, feminism, and politics, investigating how spatial practice can…