Center for Advanced Urbanism
Center for Advanced Urbanism
The Center for Advanced Urbanism (CAU) provides a home for faculty interested in collaborative research projects that will engage student participation.
Chris Zegras
Chris Zegras
Transportation and the Metropolis: Perspectives and ResearchChris Zegras, Assistant Professor, MIT
CityScope Peru
CityScope Peru
In the spring semester of 2008, a mixed class of grad and undergrad students, including architects, urban planners, and engineers, worked in Tambo de Mora, a town on Peru's southern coast that was ruined by a earthquake a year before our visit. This is the story of the class.
Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum
Clearly Impossible - at the MIT Museum
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 ...
Damon Rich: Artist Talk
Damon Rich: Artist Talk
Damon Rich (Center for Urban Pedagogy) will present a progress report on CUP's new project about the world of real estate finance. Where does the money to build and repair buildings come from? How is it controlled? What flights happen about it? In preparation for an exhibition and DVD ...
David Reinfurt: on Muriel Cooper
David Reinfurt: on Muriel Cooper
Center affiliate David Reinfurt will talk about Muriel Cooper and the Visible Language Workshop's legacy at MIT. As Design Director of MIT Press, professor in the School of Architecture, and co-founder with Ron MacNeil of the Visible Language Workshop, Muriel Cooper spent a career ...
E14 Tilting Timelapse - Fast Version
E14 Tilting Timelapse - Fast Version
Tilting timelapse video of the construction of the new MIT building E14 - the Media Lab extension. Part of an ongoing high-resolution documentation project of the construction.
E14 Tilting Timelapse - Slow Version
E14 Tilting Timelapse - Slow Version
Tilting timelapse video of the construction of the new MIT building E14 - the Media Lab extension. Part of an ongoing high-resolution documentation project of the construction.
Electrochromic Window
Electrochromic Window
Sustainable practice emerges from a carefully crafted choreography between different elements within the built environment. In our design, we program the relationship between both the active and passive elements of the architecture as an interactive system where each component works with each ...
Elizabeth Watkins, Video Artist
Elizabeth Watkins, Video Artist
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.
Emily Katrencik, "Consuming 1.956 Inches Each Day For 41 ...
Emily Katrencik, "Consuming 1.956 Inches Each Day For 41 Days"( 2005)
Documentation of a performance where 1.956 cubic inches of a wall in an art gallery in Brooklyn, New York is consumed each day for 41 days until a space in the gallery wall, large enough to fit ones head through, is opened up between the gallery and the gallerist's ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality ...
02/09/2011 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallKhalea Robinson, '11; Pierre Fuller, 'GDescription: In their brief remarks honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two students strike the theme of collaboration. They touch on the importance of humility and listening to ...
Fascia
Fascia
Fascia, a commissioned work for Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York 2006_____________________________________________________________________________________________ An artist statement by Pia Lindman ...
Franco Micucci: Architecture in Caracas after Modern Times
Franco Micucci: Architecture in Caracas after Modern Times
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 ...
Fritz Haeg: Animal Estates
Fritz Haeg: Animal Estates
Fritz Haeg speaks about his work and specifically about his current project, Animal Estates. During an intensive workshop, Haeg and MIT community members will build and install individual homes for two birds: the American Kestrel Falcon, and the Tree Swallow. These birds have a limited ...
Glenn Adamson: Curating Postmodernism
Glenn Adamson: Curating Postmodernism
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 ...
Growing MGHPCC - Presentation to the Governor (thru April ...
Growing MGHPCC - Presentation to the Governor (thru April 2012)
Slideshow from ground-breaking through completion of exterior construction presented to Governor Patrick in spring 2012.
Hidden Hands and Divided Landscape: A Penal History of ...
Hidden Hands and Divided Landscape: A Penal History of Singapore's Plural ...
A K P I A @ M I T 30TH ANNIVERSARY ALUMNI REUNIONHidden Hands and Divided Landscape: A Penal History of Singapore's Plural SocietyAnoma Pieris - University of Melbourne
High"Eco"Tech: Building Avant la Garde
High"Eco"Tech: Building Avant la Garde
04/24/2008 6:30 PM 34"101Werner Sobek, Engineer, Werner Sobek Ingenieure; Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual DesignDescription: There's more than a little magic in Werner Sobek's constructions, which balance aesthetics, architectural constraints and pathbreaking ...