Recent Videos posted to Architecture + Planning on MIT Video

A Conversation with HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:30:51 GMT

In a talk at MIT on May 7, 2013, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan called for a new wave of creative urban planning to help cities evolve during a time of economic hardship.

2013 Architecture Open House: Nader Tehrani

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:48 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: Welcome and Overview

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:48 GMT

Adèle Naudé Santos, Nader Tehrani, Andrew Scott, Arindam Dutta

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2013 Architecture Open House: Alexander D'Hooghe

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: Ana Miljacki

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: Antón García-Abril

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: Cristina Parreño

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: Joel Lamere

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: John Ochsendorf

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: Mark Goulthorpe

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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2013 Architecture Open House: Skylar Tibbits

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:47 GMT

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TalkBack 360: Science on Trial

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:30:47 GMT

 Rebuilding Credibility in the Face of Natural Disaster :

After the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake struck the Italian region of Abruzzo, killing more than 300 people, six seismologists were convicted of manslaughter. Nearly three years later, the city is still rebuilding. In this event on March 20, 2013, representatives from the city's reconstruction team met with MIT experts on geology, architecture and dispute resolution.

The 19th Pietro Belluschi Lecture: "Recent Works Around the World"

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:06:50 GMT

Architect Benedetta Tagliabue directs Miralle/Tagliabue-EMBT in Barcelona.

Matthias Kohler: The Design of Robotic Fabricated Architecture

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:30:47 GMT

The 7th Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture, recorded on March 7, 2013.

4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:45:14 GMT

A collaboration between Stratasys & The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, which is headed by Skylar Tibbits, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture.

Open House: An introduction to HTC

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:07:40 GMT

History, Theory and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art.

Center for Advanced Urbanism

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:05:58 GMT

The Center for Advanced Urbanism (CAU) provides a home for faculty interested in collaborative research projects that will engage student participation.

The Center for Advanced Urbanism

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:35:14 GMT

The CAU is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale

Yolande Daniels: Blindspots

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:05:41 GMT

A presentation of a series of independent projects on the intersections of race, architecture and the city, Blind Spots represent spaces that may not be observed under certain circumstances.

As a group, the projects explore the possibilities of descriptive terms and forms in architecture by seeking to materialize the immaterial while moving between the present and a past that has shaped it. Produced within the framework of an architecture practice, the independent projects are both blind spots and influencers of production.

Yolande Daniels

Principal/Co-founder, Studio SUMO

Yolande Daniels received architecture degrees from Columbia University and City College, CUNY. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, received a travel grant from the NY chapter of the American Institute of Architects and fellowships at the Mac Dowell Colony and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney American Museum of Art where she was a Helena Rubinstein fellow in Critical Studies.

She has taught architecture at various universities including the Graduate Schools of Architecture at Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also a design principal of studioSUMO an architecture office founded in 1995 that is located in New York with projects in the United States, Japan and Brazil.

studioSUMO has been the recipient of various awards including: Emerging Voices, Design Vanguard and Young Architects Forum, as well as, the recipient of grants such as New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts.

Franco Micucci: Architecture in Caracas after Modern Times

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:30:11 GMT

The lecture is about the urban and architectural outcome of the modern project in Venezuela and its consequences for the contemporary city of Caracas.

Franco Micucci is an architect who graduated in 1989 from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, and got his Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1992, where he received the Urban Design Thesis Prize.

He has been a Professor of Architecture since 1993 at Universidad Simon Bolivar where is currently the coordinator of the architecture program since 2009. He has also taught at Universidad Central de Venezuela and in the Master of Urban Design at Universidad Metropolitana, a joint program with Harvard University in Venezuela.

He has had academic experiences in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Chile and Spain.

His professional practice at MA+, Micucci arquitectos asociados, is based in Caracas and has developed a wide variety of projects for several Venezuelan cities in collaboration with a young generation of architects that share a vision for the city and its architecture.

Micucci has won the National Award at the Bienal de Arquitectura de Caracas in 2000 and recognitions on several national and international competitions of architecture and urban design. His work has been published in several magazines and books in Venezuela and some other countries of Latin America.

His academic research about the contemporary city and the tradition of modern architecture in Caracas is focused on an understanding of the city from the 20th century and its results. It is also an exploration about new ways to produce architecture with a proper response to strong and difficult political, economic, social and cultural issues in the Venezuelan and Latin American context.

Bibliodoptera

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:03 GMT

Bibliodoptera, by Peter Torpey and Elena Jessop, graduate students in the MIT Media Arts and Sciences Program. Location: Corridor along the Hayden Library Courtyard (map). Video by Judith M. Daniels/SA+P. Interviewer: Scott Campbell. Still photographs: Copyright Andy Ryan. http://arts.mit.edu/fast/fast-light/

IceWall

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:03 GMT

MIT150 celebrates past innovation and achievement, while acting as a catalyst for the next generation. In this spirit, IceWall plants a new future, even as its own seemingly fades away during the Festival of Art, Science and Technology. The installation consists of blocks of ice stacked on each other, creating one continuous surface facing the Charles River. Each block will have flower seeds frozen inside, visible during the Festival. The wall will be lit at night, creating a new face for MIT from across the river in Boston. As FAST concludes and Icewall melts away, the seeds are left behind in the ground. As the seeds germinate and bloom, the installation will continue to celebrate the sesquicentennial in the spring.

Unflat Pavilion by Nick Gelpi

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:03 GMT

Unflat Pavilion by Nick Gelpi. FAST Festival, MIT, May 7-8, 2011. Music: Mediterranean Tango by Pasqualino Ubaldini, http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/82896.

An Interview with MIT DUSP Grad Student Jeffrey Juarez

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:02 GMT

An interview with MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) student Jeff Juarez (MCP 2011) about how he came to be at DUSP in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning after growing up in South Central Los Angeles - and his plans for the future.

Anchises

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:02 GMT

Excerpts from a video of a collaborative performance piece by Jonah Bokaer and Harrison Atelier. Ariane Lourie Harrison is a visiting lecturer in SA+P's Department of Architecture.

LightBridge

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:02 GMT

Liquid archive new 0912 sm

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:02 GMT

An Interview with MIT Professor Philip Freelon

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:01 GMT

An interview with Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH", which was in the Wolk Gallery at MIT from February 15th to June 8th, 2012. Phil talks about his design process, his time as a student at MIT, and the importance of encouraging diversity in the profession of Architecture.

An Interview with MIT Professor Xav Briggs

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:01 GMT

An interview with Professor Xav Briggs about his time in Washington DC working in the Obama Administration. Briggs has a national reputation for his work on social capital and the 'geography of opportunity' -- a policy and research field concerned with the consequences of segregation by race and income and with efforts to respond, such as through 'housing mobility' programs that help families exit high-poverty, high-risk neighborhoods in search of better places to raise their children.

Elizabeth Watkins, Video Artist

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:01 GMT

Excerpt from an interview with Elizabeth Anne Watkins, MS Candidate in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT. In this video Elizabeth talks about her research into time-based media.

Interview with William O'Brien Jr. About Winning the Rome Prize

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:06:00 GMT

William O'Brien Jr., an Assistant Professor of Architecture talks about winning the Rome Prize and what he intends to study while in Rome at the American Academy.

Mark Goulthorpe

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:30:13 GMT

November 2, 2012

Practising Failure

Mark Goulthorpe, Assistant Professor of Architecture, MIT

Mark Goulthorpe-Initiations

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:30:13 GMT

November 2, 2012

SMArchS Colloquium

Mark Goulthorpe, Practising Failure

Student Initiations

Lydia Kallipoliti

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:05:57 GMT

October 26 - Initiations for Keller Easterling

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:30:08 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium Introduction

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:05:38 GMT

Thoughts on SMArchS

Bill Porter, previous Dean and Head of MIT Dept of Architecture
Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor, MIT and Director of SMArchS Program

Keller Easterling

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:30:13 GMT

October 19, 2012

Subtraction

Keller Easterling, Professor of Architecture, Yale University

Greg Ulmer

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:05:27 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium, October 5, 2012

Nemesis: the Pungentumami
Gregory Ulmer, Professor of English, University of Florida, and Professor of Electronic Languages and Cybermedia, European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland

Greg Ulmer, part 1

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:05:27 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium, October 5, 2012 (part 1)

Student responses

Edward Eigen

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:30:11 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium, October 12, 2012

Edward Eigen, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Anaglyptography and the Phthisiophobic Imagination; or, The Passion of Louis Braille: An Historico-Religio-Numismatic Essay

In profile: Christoph Reinhart — Seeing the light

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:30:16 GMT

Architect Christoph Reinhart’s work is all about daylight and its effects: how people respond to light in buildings, and how it might be used more effectively.

Interview with William O'Brien Jr. about winning the Rome Prize

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:10:05 GMT

The assistant professor of architecture talks about winning the Rome Prize and what he intends to study while in Rome at the American Academy.

MIT Architecture

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:51:45 GMT

A portrait of MIT's Department of Architecture.

MIT Design and Computation Group

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:30:16 GMT

Description
Research conducted by the members of the Design and Computation Group in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture.

Agenda
The MIT Design and Computation Group inquires into the intersection of geometries and algebras, shapes and numbers in order to trace tensions and establish passages between the seen and the spoken, the sketched and the coded, the perceptual and the cognitive, the human and the mechanic. Motivated by the vision to bridge the gap between the elusive particularities of creative design processes and the innate characteristics of informational machines, the DCG inquires into ways of thinking/describing/seeing/embodying shapes and numbers so as to generate computational interpretations of design and designerly interpretations of computation.

Credits
Curation and Production: Theodora Vardouli
Consultation: Professor Terry Knight, Asli Arpak, Moa Carlsson, Onur Yüce Gün, Daniel Rosenberg
Featured research: Alan Song-Ching Tai, Carl Lostritto, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daniel Rosenberg, Duks Koschitz, Kaustuv Debiswas, Laia Mogas-soldevila, Masoud Akbarzadeh, Moritz Kassner, Onur Yüce Gün, Rizal Muslimin, Shaul Goldklang, Thomas Wortmann, Theodora Vardouli, William Patera
MIT Design and Computation Group, August 2012

A Few Words from the 2012 SA+P Urban Studies and Planning Graduates

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:30:11 GMT

The DUSP grad students were asked a few questions at the party after the 2012 graduation ceremony.

Lawrence B. Anderson '30 video memorial

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:30:11 GMT

Colleagues of MIT architecture professor Lawrence B. Anderson '30 created a video tribute to him in 1994 because so little was documented in one place about his remarkable life and work.

Cambridge Science Festival - What's Your Question? - Rivers of Ice

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:30:11 GMT

From the high Himalayas to the poles, the world’s glaciers are melting. What does this mean for your community and our shared Earth? David Breashears presents his stunning new images of the Himalayan glaciers to mark the MIT Museum’s opening of its special exhibition by GlacierWorks: Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya.

Along with David Breashears, the symposium brings together scientists and community members to debate your questions about our climate, environment, water supply and much more.

Speakers:
Graham Cogley, Professor of Geography, Trent University
Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
Susan Solomon, Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Ellen Swallow Richards Chair, MIT
James Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT
Moderated by: Marco Werman, host of PRI's The World

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival: http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2012Festival/2012ScheduleofEvents/RiversofIce.aspx

BOOKISH: Artist books from the collection of the Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning, 1960-present

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:03:20 GMT

Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning

Guest curator: Samuel Ray Jacobson, MIT SMArchS ’13, History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art

On view April 20-June 10, 2012

Video for the exhibit created in conjunction with the symposium “Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book”, BOOKISH explores the means and methods through which artist books challenge the book as traditionally conceived. By their selective, intentional performance and denial of normative aspects of book design, these artist-conceived objects negate such norms while sustaining their worth and continued relevance.

Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:30:12 GMT

A video of Clearly Impossible, an installation by Zhe Huang and Yao Zhang. The installation was originally part of a larger exhibition at the MIT Museum called Ways of Seeing. It will be up at the museum until May 25, 2012. Sponsored by Florcraft, Clearly Impossible is a MIT Museum Studio project.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/studio/ways-of-seeing/index.html

ADA TOLLA + GIUSEPPE LIGNANO: LOT-EK O+O (Objects and Operations)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:30:11 GMT

MIT Architecture's Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Specifications
Read more at: http://architecture.mit.edu/lectures/public-lecture-series

April 12, 2012 - Ada Tolla and Guiseppe Lignano (LOT-EK)

LOT-EK SCANS THE ENVIRONMENT IN SEARCH OF MANMADE OBJECTS AND SYSTEMS

LOT-EK EXPLOITS OBJECTS AS RAW MATERIAL FOR ARCHITECTURE

LOT-EK UPCYCLES OBJECTS TO CREATE REMARKABLE BUILDINGS

PARTNERS

LOT-EK’s founding partners, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, have a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy (1989), and have completed post-graduate studies at Columbia University, New York (1990-1991). Besides heading their professional practice, they also teach at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture, in Cambridge, MA.

They also lecture at major universities and cultural institutions throughout the US and abroad. In December 2011, Ada and Giuseppe were recognized as USA Booth Fellows of Architecture & Design by United States Artists (USA). Nominations are made each year by an anonymous group consisting of arts leaders, critics, scholars, and artists—all selected by USA—of artists they believe show an extraordinary commitment to their craft.

RELEVANCE

LOT-EK has achieved high visibility in the architecture/design/art world for its sustainable and innovative approach to construction, materials and space through the adaptive reuse of existing industrial object and systems not originally intended for architecture. LOT-EK is also recognized for the use of technology as an integral part of architecture, for addressing issues of mobility and transformability in architecture and for blurring the boundaries between art, architecture and entertainment. Its projects are published in national and international publications, magazines and books, including The New York Times, The London Times, Herald Tribune, The Wall Street journal, Wallpaper, Domus, A+U, Interior Design, Wired, Surface, Metropolis, Vogue, Graphis and more.

LOT-EK’s first monograph, URBANSCAN, was published by PAP in February 2002. LOT-EK MIXER, by Edizioni Press, came out in 2000 and MDU Mobile Dwelling Unit, published by DAP, came out in June 2003.

SUSTAINABILITY

LOT-EK’s sustainable approach to construction through the adaptive reuse of existing industrial objects and systems has been the basis of projects at all scales. Committed to ecologically-responsible, intelligent methods of building, our team takes advantage of the technological properties of existing industrial objects resulting from decades of expert development, to create architecture. We not only recycle the objects themselves, we also recycle the intelligence that went into their development. Beyond the inherent sustainability of our design methodology, LOT-EK is committed to researching and implementing innovative ways of conserving materials and energy. As with all technological elements, we are interested in highlighting sustainable technologies visually, as ingredients to emphasize overall design concepts.

China Urban Development Discussion Series - Urbanization: Regional & Spatial Transformation in China

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:03:18 GMT

April 18, 1-2.30 PM, Room 9-354 | Speaker: Weiping Wu
Urbanization: Regional & Spatial Transformation | Discussant: Amy Glasmeier

Dr. Weiping Wu is a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning, and a senior fellow in the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is an editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and a visiting Zijiang Chair Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Previously, she was a consultant to the World Bank, and a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Her research is concerned with how migration affects the socio-spatial reconfiguration of cities, how planning and policy influence cities’ economic vitality and infrastructure building, and how higher education transfers knowledge and innovation to industry. The National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and World Bank have provided funding support for her research. She has (co)authored and co-edited four books, and will be publishing a new book titled The Chinese City (Routledge).

Topic:

China’s cities are home to 10 percent of the world’s population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country’s surging economic power. Although China’s urban transformation is in some ways comparable to what industrialized countries have gone through in the past, the outcomes – particular patterns of development, the nature of urbanism, interactions between urban and rural – necessarily are quite different. This presentation will focus on two aspects: how rapid urbanization has reconfigured the urban system across regions and urban space across social strata. How might reform policies and inter-city economic competition change the urban system? What are the key dimensions of disparity within and across cities? An overarching theme points to increasing double divide in urban China.

China Urban Development Discussion Series in Spring 2012 is cosponsored by: Department of Urban Studies and Planning in the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, MIT Graduate Student Life Grants, and MIT Graduate Student Council. For more information, please visit our website . Our seminars are free and open to the public.

China Urban Development Discussion Series: Challenges of Urban Energy Planning in China

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:03:18 GMT

March 14, 5:30-7 PM, Room 9-354 | Speaker: Stephen Hammer
Challenges of Urban Energy Planning in China | Discussant: Karen R Polenske

Dr. Stephen Hammer is a Lecturer in Energy Planning at MIT DUSP. Dr. Hammer also serves as co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, an international consortium of researchers focused on climate change science, mitigation, and adaptation at the urban scale. Prior to joining MIT, he taught at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he founded and directed the Urban Energy Program. Dr. Hammer consults internationally on urban energy and climate policy issues to a range of public, private, and NGO clients. He recently served as lead author on the OECD’s new report on urban green growth, and has supported OECD green growth research missions in the US and in China. Dr. Hammer also served as an advisor to the World Bank on efforts to promote energy efficiency in developing country cities, including the development of the TRACE system (Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy). During 2009-2010, Dr. Hammer led the Energy Smart Cities Initiative, a Beijing-based program providing energy and climate policy training to more than 250 local government officials and state-owned enterprise managers from around China, a project carried out in collaboration with the National Training Center for Mayors of China. Dr. Hammer is a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Energy Policy Task Force, and serves as a reviewer for a variety of academic journals, including Local Environment and Energy Policy. Dr. Hammer holds a PhD degree from the London School of Economics, an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.S. from the University of California at Davis.

Topic:

In January 2012, China's urban population surpassed that of rural areas for the first time in the country's history. Rapid urbanization trends greatly exacerbate China's energy challenges. After a decades-long boom of economic growth, China has now become the world's largest energy consumer. With an ambition to upgrade its economic structure and to respond to energy depletion and natural environment deterioration, China's central government has started initiating stricter requirements and restrictions on provincial and local governments in order to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. In the 12th five-year plan, China has mandated a 16% decrease of energy consumption per unit of GDP by 2015 from its 2010 level. Delivering this change won’t be easy, however, for a variety of institutional, market, and behavioral reasons. Please join us in the lecture for more perspectives and insights on this topic.

China Urban Development Discussion Series - Sustaining Personal Mobility in Urbanizing China

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:30:10 GMT

April 4, 12.30-2 PM, Room 9-354 | Speaker: Jiawen Yang
Sustaining Personal Mobility in Urbanizing China | Discussant: Joseph Ferreira

China's massive population, high density and fast economic development produce huge demand for transportation investment. For now, megacities in China are congested by cars, choked with air pollutants and constrained by housing affordability. How to sustain city and regional mobility in the ever-expanding and high-density megacities or megaregions are utmost challenges calling for innovative solutions. Will it be effective to add fixed guideway transit to the pre-existing regional highway network? How might the interest of city governments, provincial governments and central government fit each other and shape a large-scale railway investment strategy? What is its implication for future personal mobility? Please join us in the lecture for more perspectives and insights on this topic.

China Urban Development Discussion Series: Making the Clean Energy City in China

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:10 GMT

March 21, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Dennis Frenchman & Prof. Christopher Zegras, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Discussant: Prof. Ralph Gakenheimer, MIT DUSP

The Chinese urban landscape is being dramatically transformed through rapid urbanization, changing standards of living, and a massive shift to private motorized transportation. These changes are inducing cities to consume ever more energy in the face of decreasing supplies. The speakers present advances from an ongoing research project, focused on the city of Jinan, that attempts to confront the Chinese urban energy challenge by intervening at the scale of neighborhoods, commercial districts, and real estate projects - the fundamental building blocks of urban growth. The work takes a life-cycle energy use perspective and integrates empirical evidence, urban design studios, and an assessment tool, the "Energy Pro-forma", which enables urban designers and developers to estimate the net energy use implied in urban development proposals. The ultimate goal is to not only help designers and developers create more energy efficient urban projects, but also to facilitate the creation of new public policies and standards for neighborhood energy performance for application at the local and national levels.

Read more about the 2012 China Urban Development Discussion Series: http://dusp.mit.edu/cud/cud_series.html

MARIA ALESSANDRA SEGANTINI: C+S, Translation Architecture(TM)

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:04:38 GMT

MIT Architecture's Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Specifications
Read more at: http://architecture.mit.edu/lectures/public-lecture-series

March 8, 2012 - Maria Alessandra Segantini, C+S, TranslationArchitecture TM

C+S believes that each project is unique and should act as a translation of the historical, socio-political, economical, physical and climatic contexts which they belong to. They define their research TranslationArchitecture™.

Working on the integration of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture and ecology, C+S has developed an extensive catalogue of architectural and urban strategies, which aim to erase architecture as an object, instead melting it into the design of the landscape and translating it into contemporary universal values the power of the environment specificity, the community's expectations, the culture, the memory and the climate. The detailed analysis of the program and the site from both a cultural, social, physical and climatic point of view are the necessary conditions to approach design which is the result of the correct melting of concepts such as scale, form, community spirit and detailed design.

Readings for the lecture
http://web.mit.edu/annesim/www/Segantini_Readings.zip

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Maria Alessandra Segantini is partner, with Carlo Cappai, of C+S based in Italy.

She was educated at IUAV, University of Architecture of Venice, where she received an Awarded Master Degree in Architecture in 1991.
C+S works internationally in the different fields of architecture: urban design and the design of the landscape, architectural design, interior design both for the private and the public sectors.

C+S won many international competitions: Policlinic Hospital in Milan, Tenova headquarters in Verese, housing complex in Japan, university students’ housing in Murano (Venice) and the law court offices of Venice.

Segantini has lectured internationally and has been visiting professor in several universities of architecture. C+S has exhibited at the 8th and 12th Biennale of Architecture and in the 50th Biennale of Art Exhibition. C+S works won or were selected in many architectural design awards among which are: the Gold Medal of Italian Architecture 2006 (section education), the selection in the Mies Van der Rohe Award 2009, the honorable mention in the AR AWARD 2008, in the FarbDesign Preis in München and in the Dedalo_Minosse International Award 2011, the SFIDE 2009 of the Italian Ministry of Environment and the Faces of Design Award, Berlin 2010.

C+S architectural projects have been published in significant international magazines such as A+U, Architectural Review, C3, Detail, Domus, and Abitare.Segantini’s books, among which Contemporary Housing (Milan 2008) and Learning from Space (at press), are the results of her research.

ZIAD JAMALEDDINE + MAKRAM EL KADI: L.E.FT - RECENT WORKS, LEBANON

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:02:55 GMT

MIT Architecture's Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Specifications
Read more at: http://architecture.mit.edu/lectures/public-lecture-series

March 15, 2012
This Lecture, instead of linking architecture production to its proper history (history of architecture), proposes to draw a parallel between architectural production and the political history of Lebanon.

MAKRAM EL KADI

Born in Beirut in 1974, Makram el Kadi received his bachelor of architecture degree from the American University of Beirut in 1997 and his masters of architecture from Parsons School of Design in 1999. After working at the offices of Fumihiko Maki in Japan, he joined Steven Holl Architects where for 5 years he was project architect on numerous international projects, among them the World Trade Center proposal with Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman and Charles Gwathmey, and the winning entry to the natural history museum of Los Angeles county competition. Mr. El Kadi taught architecture studio with Steven Holl at the Columbia University School of Architecture Planning and Preservation GSAPP in 2004 and 2005 and as part of L.E.FT at Cornell University in 2006, and currently teaches graduate studio at MIT where he serves at the Aga Khan visiting Lecturer. He also has a regular teaching position at Yale where was the Louis Kahn visiting assistant professor of architecture and has been part of the Yale faculty since 2009.

ZIAD JAMALEDDINE

Born in Beirut in 1971, Ziad Jamaleddine received his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut in 1995, where he won the Areen Award for excellence in design. He received his Masters degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1999. Mr. Jamaleddine worked for Steven Holl Architects for 5 years where he was the assistant to project architect for Simmons Hall dormitory at M.I.T, (winner of the National AIA Design award in 2003 and the New York AIA award in 2002), and the project architect for the design and development of the Beirut Marina project in downtown Beirut. Mr. Jamaleddine co-taught Vertical studio and seminar at Cornell University, Third-Year Graduate Advanced Architectural Design Studio at PennDesign, and Vertical Studio at Rensselaer (RPI) School of Architecture.

Glenn Adamson: Curating Postmodernism

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:30:10 GMT

Glenn Adamson is the Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He leads the Research Department’s activities, working closely with colleagues within the museum and in collaboration with scholars and institutions worldwide. He holds a PhD in art history from Yale University, and was previously curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. Dr. Adamson co-curated (with Jane Pavitt) the exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 to 1990, which opened at the V&A in 2011. He has also written widely on craft history and theory, in such books as Thinking Through Craft (2007), The Craft Reader (2010), and The Invention of Craft (2012); and has edited numerous publications including the triannual Journal of Modern Craft, the volume Global Design History (co-edited with Giorgio Riello and Sarah Teasley, 2011), and Surface Tensions (co-edited with Victoria Kelley, 2012).

João Ribas is Curator of the List Visual Arts Center at MIT and was previously Curator at The Drawing Center, New York. His writing has appeared in numerous art and culture publications, and he is the recipient of three consecutive International Art Critics Awards for Best exhibition in a Non-Profit Space, and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. João’s recent curated exhibitions include the Otto Piene: Lichtballet installation at the List Visual Arts Center (2011), Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom (MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2011) Manon de Boer (Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2011); FAX (Carpenter Center, Harvard University, 2011): Frances Stark (MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2010); and Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World (Drawing Center, 2009). He has contributed essays to numerous publications and monographs, and has been a visiting lecturer for institutions and organizations worldwide. He was previously adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

MARK WEST: Heavy Light - Finding Biomimetic Construction

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:02:54 GMT

Feb 9, 2012
Concrete has been formed in rigid molds since its invention in Ancient Rome. Very recently however, the possibility of a new architectural and structural language has emerged based on the use of flexible fabric formworks that are shaped by an internal response to the weight and pressure of wet concrete. This way of building results in works of great simplicity, economy, and beauty. This lecture will present many examples of this approach to construction and design, and explore the methods of discovery used at the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology (CAST), in Winnipeg, Canada.

Mark West
University of Manitoba
Mark West is the Founding Director of the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology (C.A.S.T.) at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture (Winnipeg MB), where he is a Professor in the Faculty Architecture (with a cross appointment in the Faculty of Engineering). He is the inventor of numerous fabric-formed concrete techniques for architectural, and structural applications.

He has worked as an architectural educator for thirty years in Canada and the U.S., dedicating his research to expanding the possibilities of design and construction by combining the disciplines of architecture, engineering, sculpture, and drawing. His first education was as a builder, followed by a B.Arch. from the Cooper Union in New York, NY, (1980) and a post-professional M.Arch. from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (1996). His work has received wide recognition through publications, awards, lectures and exhibitions in North America, Asia, and Europe.

An Interview with Professor Philip Freelon about "REACH"

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:30:09 GMT

An interview with MIT Professor Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH", showing in the Wolk Gallery from February 15 - June 8, 2012.

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscape: A Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:03:47 GMT

A K P I A @ M I T 30TH ANNIVERSARY ALUMNI REUNION
Hidden Hands and Divided Landscape:
A Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society
Anoma Pieris - University of Melbourne

New Technologies for Interpreting and Representing a Medieval Islamic Suburban Villa

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:03:47 GMT

A K P I A @ M I T 30TH ANNIVERSARY ALUMNI REUNION

New Technologies for Interpreting and Representing a Medieval Islamic Suburban Villa

Glaire Anderson - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Seascape Urbanism: Conserving Port Cities in Al Khalij

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:03:47 GMT

A K P I A @ M I T 3 0 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y A LU M N I R E U N I O N

Seascape Urbanism: Conserving Port Cities in Al Khalij

Samia Rab - American University of Sharjah

Space of Resistance: The Return of the Avant-garde to the Streets of Iran

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:03:47 GMT

A K P I A @ M I T 3 0 T H A N I V E R S A R Y A LU M N I R E U N I O N

Space of Resistance:
The Return of the Avant-garde to the Streets of Iran

Talinn Grigor - Brandeis University

An interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:30:09 GMT

An interview with Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH," showing in the Wolk Gallery from Feb. 15 to June 8, 2012

What Divine Irony: Hoods are Still Causing Pain

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:30:08 GMT

This video is a spoken poem on the life and death of Trayvon Martin, in a historical context.
Poem text is below.

What divine irony indeed, hoods are still causing pain.
Retributions and chaos amongst our nation.

Up from slavery, it has been the hood that has caused some of our greatest pains and agonies.
Post reconstruction. Post-reconstruction it was the sons of the South
and, I might add my brethren, also some of us from the North,
who were equally vitriolic when it came to the treatment of the emancipated ones,
of which I am a proud descendant.
Men of the North and the South both outfitted themselves in the hoods of the day
and took to the torches -
took their torches to the streets and roasted the most strange kind of fruits,
while suited in their most strange garments -
pure white camellia-like hoods, the hoods of the South.

Post-King came the clamoring, sweltering havens of rest
in which the poor, marginalized, and disenfranchised of this land
were hoarded, compacted, into the vessels of our middle passage to this new hood.
Afflicted it was, with all of its vices and ills -
the dregs of drugs,
prostitution, death, extortion, graft, greed, decadence and corruption
that did not become that intoxicatingly sweet nectar of our familiar.

And now comes Trayvon -
the culmination, the essence, of having escaped the travesties of both of these hoods
but meeting that same end that so many victims of both the prior hoods met.

Oh what seemingly poignant, yet twisted irony.

Oh ye people of the book: Return, reclaim, renew, revive and restore.
Recall on our God. God is still waiting, and he is still able.
When we who are called by his name simply redeem and return to our divinely appointed missions,
then and only then will our appointed destinies be realized.

See the original post at MIT CoLab Radio: http://colabradio.mit.edu/what-divine-irony-hoods-are-still-causing-pain/

MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:30:07 GMT

The MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative is MIT’s response to the March 2011 triple disaster in Japan.

Shun Kanda & Jim Wescoat: MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:30:06 GMT

Keynote:

Shun Kanda, Senior Lecturer, MIT (USA)

James Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor, MIT (USA)

Respondent:

Jegan Vincent de Paul, ACT Lecturer, MIT (USA)

In the aftermath of the disaster suffered in Japan, MIT launched the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative, a multi-year collaborative project focused on disaster-resilient planning, design and reconstruction. Back from the first MIT Japan 3/11 workshop which took place this summer, Shun Kanda and Jim Wescoat will discuss the process and challenges in planning and implementing alternative strategies for disaster-preparedness. Shun Kanda is a Tokyo native and the Director of Architectural Studies for the MIT-Japan Program. James L. Wescoat, Jr. is Aga Khan Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative: http://web.mit.edu/japan3-11/home.html

An Interview with Professor Xav Briggs

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:03:12 GMT

Professor Xav Briggs talks about his time in Washington, D.C., working in the Obama Administration.

The Mercury Game

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:39:16 GMT

The Mercury Game is a negotiation simulation that is designed to teach people about the role of science in international environmental policy making. To download the game go to: http://mit.edu/mercurygame

Chris Nagel

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:17:16 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium

October 7, 2011

Manuel Castells

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:00:48 GMT

William B. Mitchell Symposium November 10, 2011

Rodney Brooks

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:09:49 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium September 30, 2011

Mark Goulthorpe

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:45:18 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium September 16, 2011 Poesis

Erika Naginski

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:42:42 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium September 23, 2011 Disegno, Techne, Utopia

Paul Steenhuisen

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:39:48 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium November 4, 2011

Mark Burry

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:38:43 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium November 11, 2011 Gaudi's Latency

Mark Bishop

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:05:32 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium October 21, 2011

Reinventing the City @ MIT: Economics and the Sustainable City

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:17:41 GMT

Economics and the Sustainable City
Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5:00-7:00pm
MIT 3-133

Three urban economists discuss how economic principles will help cities to create a smaller environmental footprint.

David Albouy, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; and Research Associate at the Office of Tax Policy Research
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University
Matthew E. Kahn, Professor, Institute of the Environment, Department of Public Policy, UCLA

Moderator: Frank Levy, Daniel Rose Professor of Economics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Responders:

Eran Ben-Joseph, , Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design; Head of the Joint Program in City Design and Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Judith Layzer, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Head of Environmental Policy and Planning Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Urban Network Analysis: A Toolbox for ArcGIS 10

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:35:05 GMT

The City Form Research Group is releasing a state-of-the-art toolbox for urban network analysis. As the first of its kind, this ArcGIS toolbox can be used to compute five types of graph analysis measures on spatial networks: Reach; Gravity; Betweenness; Closeness; and Straightness. For more information go to: http://cityform.mit.edu/projects/urban-network-analysis.html

Networks Understanding Networks, Pt. 12: Neri Oxman

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:22:41 GMT

Fabricating Networks: Notes on Biologically Inspired Design — Neri Oxman

CO2GO

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:08:50 GMT

A project by the SENSEable City Lab, MIT. Today, more than a third of global CO2 emissions are generated by transportation. CO2GO, a new type of smartphone application, is an effective tool that assists in making smarter individual transportation choices to collectively reduce carbon emissions in cities.

Anchises

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:10:35 GMT

Excerpts from a video of a collaborative performance piece by Jonah Bokaer and Harrison Atelier. Ariane Lourie Harrison is a visiting lecturer in SA+P's Department of Architecture.

AIDA - The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:18:14 GMT

The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab.

Liquid Archive

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:45:45 GMT

New video of Nader Tehrani's and Gediminas Urbonas' "Liquid Archive", part of MIT's FAST Festival. The video was created by the Urbonas Studio and Gerda Serbentaite.

An Interview with DUSP Grad Student Jeffrey Juarez

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:46:45 GMT

An interview with DUSP student Jeff Juarez (MCP 2011) about how he came to be at the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT after growing up in South Central Los Angeles and his plans for the future.

Who's behind the LightBridge

Tue, 24 May 2011 19:45:52 GMT

LightBridge by Susanne Seitinger, researcher in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and Pol Pla, graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and the software team: Russell Cohen, Eugene Sun, Andrew Chen, Dave Lawrence, Daniel Taub, and David Xiao. Part of MIT's FAST Festival, LightBridge was a dynamic interactive LED array that responded to pedestrians on the bridge, illustrating MIT's ties to both sides of the Charles River. Thanks go to Philips ColorKinetics, CISCO, and SparkFun Electronics for helping to make LightBridge happen.

Unflat Pavilion

Tue, 24 May 2011 19:32:17 GMT

Part of the MIT FAST Festival, Unflat Pavilion is a freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDS that flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns and windows.

FAST: Festival of Art, Science and Technology recap

Mon, 23 May 2011 15:54:04 GMT

A chain reaction between the arts and the sciences, MIT's Festival of Art, Science and Technology was a year-long celebration of creativity at MIT

Maxwell's Dream: Paint with Light

Wed, 11 May 2011 14:40:16 GMT

An art installation that allows observers to play with a magnetic field to create patterns in light.

Inverted Platform Lobby 7 competition entry

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:17:46 GMT

Inverted Platform offers new perspectives of MIT's Lobby 7 to visitors and members of the Institute community by redefining the plinth as a new type of platform for viewing and storytelling. Large red horn-like objects are placed on each existing plinth, but rather than acting as the pieces of art themselves they are merely the receptors for stories to be told, and projected along the walls of the dome. The project, which won first place in the graduate division, is titled the Inverted Platform for the three different types of inversions that drove the project conceptually: THREE INVERSIONS 1 // Cultural: transforming the pedestal to a platform for storytelling. 2 // Functional: taking on the form of an instrument to amplify sound, yet perversely amplifying text instead. 3 // Technological: through errors of speech recognition, stories are transformed and re-authored.

The Three Greats

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:01:18 GMT

Final Project - Joubert Glover , Joshua Walker , Deema Totah scenes from 3 films: Match Point, Gladiator, The King's Speech

An Interview with Amanda Levesque

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:12:35 GMT

An interview with student Amanda Levesque about the value of international travel as part of an architectural education.

Bibliodoptera

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:56:35 GMT

Bibliodoptera, by Peter Torpey and Elena Jessop, graduate students in Media Arts and Sciences Location: Corridor along the Hayden Library Courtyard (map) A cloud of vellum butterflies, newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT's diverse library pages, floats above in the corridor between the Lewis and Hayden Libraries. This installation is an unobtrusive but strikingly beautiful symbol of the guiding knowledge of the arts and humanities that have been developed and pursued at MIT over the last 150 years.

TrashTrack

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:46:40 GMT

Winner of the NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, the video shows how TrashTrack uses technology to expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability. For more information go to: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/index.php

IceWall - a Festival of Arts, Science and Technology Installation

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:25:08 GMT

MIT 150 celebrated past innovation and achievement, while acting as a catalyst for the next generation. In this spirit, IceWall, part of the Festival of Art, Science and Technology, plants a new future, even as its own seemingly fades away.

Learning and Playing

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:49:25 GMT

A performance by Amanda Moore of "Learning and Playing", part of an exhibit by the Urbonas Studio entitled "The Learning Machine". The exhibit which explores the symbolic relationship between women and the state, taking women's voices as expressions of the psychological impact of the Cold War on multiple generations, is at the Wolk Gallery, MIT from February 9th - April 8th, 2011.

Slipstream Public Exchange

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:34:04 GMT

Associate Professor Meejin Yoon and her partner Eric Höweler have won an open competition to design a new headquarters for the Boston Society of Architects on Boston's waterfront. Animation by Squared Design Limited

Marc Downie

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:44:28 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium-fall2010

Paul Steenhuisen

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:26:52 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium-fall 2010

Marc Downie

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:17:51 GMT

SMArchS Colloquium- fall 2010