The Canadian Centre for Architecture launches its Thursday lecture series this fall with two presentations in parallel to the exhibition Inside the Sponge: Students Take on Simmons Hall. In collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) SENSEable City Laboratory, Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Steven Holl’s award - winning university dormitory at MIT from the perspective of its residents.

Presented Thursdays at 18:00 in the Paul Desmarais Theatre.

21 September
Montréal landscape architecture firm NIPpaysage presents Drive - Thru Garden, an installation beneath the Ville - Marie expressway at Saint - Marc and Saint-Antoine streets (in French).

28 September
Curators Carlo Ratti and Talia Dorsey discuss the digital revolution in architecture and planning in relation to MIT's Senseable City Laboratory and the exhibition Inside the Sponge.

5 October
MIT students share their views on Simmons Hall.

19 October
French landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm present their work and the exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow.

7 November
Eyal Weizman, winner of the 2006 -2007 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City competition, presents Destruction by Design: Military Strategy as Urban Planning. In collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

16 November
Alberto Pérez - Gómez, Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture at McGill University, discusses his book Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics with David Leatherbarrow, Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

7 December
British artist and writer Victor Burgin shares his vision of the exhibition Voyage to Italy.