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<font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Sustainable Design and Technology
Research Workshop<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica">Professors Andrew Scott and Leon
Glicksman<br><br>
Spring 2004<br>
4.183 | 12 units (3-0-9)<br>
meeting time: Mondays 2.00 – 5.00 (and occasionally another time to be
agreed with the class)<br>
TA: Javier Arbona<br><br>
The workshop welcomes students from different disciplines that focus upon
the design and technological issues related to the development of the
built environment. The intention is to explore and speculate upon current
interpretations of sustainability in and around architecture<br>
and urban design, in the broadest sense- from the micro level of
materials and technology through the scale of the building to the macro
scale of urban form and suburbanization. We will be interested in looking
at not only how the notion of sustainable architecture is conceptualized,
interpreted and implemented at varying scales, but also how we might push
the frontiers of knowledge toward new directions and dimensions. These
new dimensions should challenge us to be conscious of resource use,
ecological balance and minimizing<br>
environmental impacts in professional design work and technological
applications. The workshop will be interdisciplinary and collaborative in
nature and will develop as a forum where students and faculty will engage
both in investigative analysis as well as design studies of a speculative
nature. The intention will be to produce work of a publishable quality
that can then educate and inform a wider professional
community.<br><br>
The workshop will be structured around three interrelated phases. We will
begin by looking at current interpretations of sustainability in
architecture from literature, publications, professional practice and
assessment methods with a view to developing some critical edge to the
upcoming work of the class. Secondly, we will engage in a holistic and
critical research of a range of chosen projects through the study of
their underlying objectives and ideas as well as the resultant problems
and issues. For example, a group may do a critical analysis of a new
building or urban development that has been critically acclaimed to be
very sustainable.<br>
Finally (and for the second half of the semester), students will then
select their own design project which will become the vehicle to
articulate and evaluate either totally new ideas and agendas for a
sustainable future, or to revisit familiar problems but with a new vision
and understanding of the environmental potential.<br><br>
The class will meet Mondays at 2.00 – 5.00pm.<br>
Occasionally the workshop will also need to meet at another weekly time
for further discussion and reviews. This alternate time will be agreed
with the class after the first meeting.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>First workshop meeting: Monday
February 9 at 2.00pm in room 5.232<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica">Any questions - email
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">amscott@mit.edu
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica">or
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">glicks@mit.edu<br><br>
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<div align="right"><font face="Swis721 BT" size=1><b>Javier Arbona |
<a href="http://javierarbona.net/">javierarbona</a><a href="http://javierarbona.net/">.net</a><br>
</b>MIT Department of Architecture<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave. 3-415<br>
Cambridge MA 02139<br><br>
617 803 9968<br>
</font><font face="Swis721 BT" size=1 color="#FF0000"><a href="mailto:arbona@mit.edu">arbona@mit..edu</a><br>
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