<html>
<div align="center"><font size=4><b>THE MIT DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
LECTURE SERIES<br>
and<br>
PRACTICING THE ELUSIVE: INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT<br>
SPRING 2004 SPEAKER SERIES<br>
{ for all series info see <br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/speakers/" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/sfgs/speakers/</a><br>
or email elusive@mit.edu }<br>
<br>
</div>
Tuesday, March 2<br>
Room 10-250 MIT [
<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=10-250&mapsearch=go">map</a>
]<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><br><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Times, Times" size=4><x-tab> </x-tab></font><font size=5>Michael SINGER<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font size=4>"Michael Singer, Projects"<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Artist, New York<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><br><br>
<br>
</b></font>Michael Singer has been involved in a variety of landscape and outdoor environment and infrastructure projects in the United States and Europe. <br>
His recent work has been recognized as a solution to joining large-scale public works projects to aesthetic concerns and the communities that are served by this infrastructure. In 1994 a sculptural floodwall and walkway that serves as a model riverine reclamation project designed by Singer for the Grand River East Bank in Grand Rapids, Michigan was completed. Singer was selected with Behnisch & Partner to design and fabricate interior gardens for the IBN, a Dutch Environmental Research Center. The gardens serve as biofilters for air and water recovery for the facility, completed in 1998. The Canal Corridor Association and Chicago Parks Department selected Singer to design a new urban park on the Chicago River which interprets the history and impacts of canals on the city, as well as reclaims wildlife habitat and restores a wetland ecosystem. With support from the Rockefeller Foundation he lead a multidisciplinary team with the environmental group River Watch Network on the master plan for Troja Island Basin in Prague, Czech Republic. He has been working on several Co-generation Power Facilities incorporating sustainable building principles, aesthetic design, and land use planning. Michael Singer earned a BFA at Cornell University in 1967 and since 1971 has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.<font size=3> <br><br>
</font>more on Singer at <a href="http://www.michaelsinger.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.michaelsinger.com/</a><br><br>
<br>
<font size=2>PRACTICING THE ELUSIVE: <br>
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT<br>
</font>an initiative of the Sustainable Urban Development Society,<br>
(sfgs-suds@mit.edu)<br>
a part of Students for Global Sustainability<br><br>
Please distribute</html>