MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism presents Boston-based architect, author and curator Michael Kubo discussing the permeable boundaries between writing, curatorial and publishing platforms in design.

Michael Kubo is a director of pinkcomma gallery and co-author of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston (The Monacelli Press). As a collaborator with the interdisciplinary practice over,under, his recent exhibitions include "Imagining the Modern: HACLab Pittsburgh at the Heinz Architectural Center" (2015), the Design Biennial Boston (2008–2015) and "IN FORM: Communicating Boston at the Boston Society of Architects" (2012). He was associate curator for OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 International Architecture Biennale in Venice, and co-editor of OfficeUS Atlas (Lars Müller). As a Ph.D. candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture at MIT, his work focuses on the origins and international extension of corporate architectural practice in the United States after World War II. His writing has appeared in Architect, ArchitectureBoston, The Boston Globe, CLOG, Harvard Design Magazine, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, MAS Context and Volume.

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Michael Kubo: Working Across Platforms