In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt outlines three fundamental human activities: labour, work, and action. Labour represents the basic, cyclical activities that are necessary for survival. Work is what we are normally concerned with, as architects: the fabrication of a durable, objective world. But action, according to Arendt, is what distinguishes human life. Freedom of speech, initiative, and dialogue allow each individual to act – to discover how to live as a human among humans....

This Friday at 6:00 in the Main Lecture Hall we are going to have an open discussion about the state of the program, the school and student life in Cambridge. We will discuss things that you believe are important, things that work well at the school and some things that need to change. If you have something you would like to say, a critique of your experience at the school this term, please come out,...