[Editors] MIT SA+P News: September 2013

Thu Sep 5 15:01:45 EDT 2013

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[Structures]<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41073&eid=223500> A New Approach to Assembling Big Structures<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41072&eid=223500>

[Water]<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41071&eid=223500> Understanding Energy-Water-Food Connections<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41070&eid=223500>

[Energy in Africa]<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41069&eid=223500> Planning Student Has Plans for Affordable Housing and Renewable Energy in Africa<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41068&eid=223500>

[Boston Mural]<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41067&eid=223500> Giant Paint-By-Numbers Murals May Start Popping Up Around Boston<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41066&eid=223500>

SA+P NEWS: September 2013

They’re baaaaaack. The students, I mean. (There goes any hope of finding a parking space in Boston or Cambridge for another year…) But of course we’re always eager for them to return. They’re why we’re here.

We have 217 new students enrolling in SA+P this year – 64 in architecture, 82 in planning, 48 in media arts and sciences and 23 in real estate development. The class is 47% female, 39% international and 100% cool.

We also have four new faculty members – two in media arts and sciences; one in urban planning; and one in the history, theory and criticism program of the architecture department (you’ll find a link to intros below).

Finally, we have two especially notable items to report this month:

William O’Brien<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41063&eid=223500> has been named one of the twenty top young architectural talents in the world by Wallpaper* magazine. (That is not a typo: in the world.) See samples of his work here<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41062&eid=223500> and/or visit his website here<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41061&eid=223500>.

And Meejin Yoon<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41060&eid=223500> has been presented with the 2013 Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education. According to Nader Tehrani<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41059&eid=223500>, her work on the undergraduate program in architecture is expanding the whole notion of design and architecture in an institute of technology. There’s a link to more below.

Read on for more news of what’s gone down since you last heard from us – notable quotes from our people in the press; new features online; news flashes from our faculty, staff and alums; selected press clips (with a link to an archive of clips going back to 2006); a listing of current exhibits; and a list of upcoming events this month.

Looks like it'll be a busy year.

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QUOTES OF NOTE

Which place looks safer?

  *   Media Lab researchers<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41052&eid=223500> on their website Place Pulse<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41051&eid=223500> – a tool to crowdsource people’s perception of cities by judging digital snapshots, a sort of ‘hot or not’ for urban neighborhoods; the results could someday be used to help design cities. Motherboard, July 25. <http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41050&eid=223500>

Is it a synagogue or a gas station?

  *   Yvonne Pagani, widow of SA+P alum Dick Pagani (BArch’54), laughing about other people’s reaction to the house her husband designed for them<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41049&eid=223500> in the late 1950s; its adventurous barrel-vault roof was rare in domestic architecture. The Globe and Mail, July 18.<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41048&eid=223500>

One could hope for more on the energy front.

  *   Xav Briggs<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41047&eid=223500> commenting on the Obama administration’s urban policy efforts; ‘how urban areas source their energy is the big elephant in the room,’ he said, ‘and we need to move to much cleaner energy, faster.’ Huffington Post, July 26.<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41046&eid=223500>

That requires us to make a cognitive stretch that we tend not to do naturally.

  *   Ethan Zuckerman<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41045&eid=223500> talking about seeking out knowledge and points-of-view online that don’t necessarily match our own, a process that the internet’s echo chamber does not facilitate; but ‘this may be a moment in time,’ he says, ‘where it’s very important to be paying attention to issues at a global scale.’ WBUR, July 17.<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41044&eid=223500>

I really didn’t want to do it.

  *   Kael Greco<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41043&eid=223500> responding to a suggestion that he jump from an airplane to test how much angst that caused him. Greco has been wearing sensors to measure his stress while driving, part of a research effort to develop ‘stress-scapes’ of various cities; the sky dive test was meant to benchmark the highest level of stress. Research results could help street and car designers reduce anxiety on the road. Boston Globe, July 15.<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41042&eid=223500>

NEWS FLASHES

Faculty + Staff

Mark Jarzombek<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41041&eid=223500> is inaugurating his first edX course beginning September 17. A Global History of Architecture: Part 1<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41040&eid=223500> will examine architecture through time, beginning with First Societies and extending to the 15th century; focused on different architectural ‘moments’, the material in the lectures will be supplemented by readings from Jarzombek’s textbook A Global History of Architecture<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41039&eid=223500>.

Otto Piene<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41038&eid=223500>, director of SA+P’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974-1994, was featured on the cover of a recent issue of Mousse<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41037&eid=223500>, the contemporary art magazine; the illustrated interview was conducted on the occasion of his 85th birthday by SA+P’s Ute Meta Bauer<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41036&eid=223500> and visiting lecturer Fender Schrade<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41035&eid=223500> (2008).

W. Bradley Knox<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41034&eid=223500>, a postdoc associate at the Media Lab, has been named to IEEE Intelligent Systems™ list of ‘AI's 10 to Watch<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41033&eid=223500>’; Knox is developing a robotic reading companion for young children and continues his research on robots that learn from interaction with human trainers.

Students and Alumni

Saeed Arida<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41032&eid=223500> (SM’05 and PhD’11, Architecture) and Saba Ghole<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41031&eid=223500> (SMArchS’07) report that NuVu<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41030&eid=223500> – their magnet innovation center for middle and high school students, and professional development program for teachers and educators – launched two new programs in India this year, in Bangalore and Mumbai.

Kyle Barker<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41029&eid=223500> has been awarded a $10K scholarship by ZGF Architects LLP<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41028&eid=223500>, unanimously chosen from more than 75 applications. Described as ‘an eager student and a perfectionist,’ Barker has received several awards, scholarships and distinctions over the past decade; he begins his final year of MArch studies this fall.

Caleb Harper (MArch’13), Layla Shaikley (SMArchS’13) and PhD candidate Vasco Portugal<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41027&eid=223500> were the grand prize winners in a recent competition<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41026&eid=223500> hosted by USAID, the World Bank and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; their paper on urban poverty in the developing world will be published and presented at a Washington DC policy workshop in November.

Jill Magid<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41025&eid=223500> (SM’00, Architecture) has been named a Fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41024&eid=223500> at The New School in New York; a visual artist and writer, she will work on The Barragán Archives for her fellowship project – an extended, multimedia examination of the legacy of Mexican architect and Pritzker Prize-winner Luis Barragán (1902-1988).

Matthew Mazzotta<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41023&eid=223500> (SMVisS’04) has created a new public art project, Open House<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41022&eid=223500> – a house that transforms physically from the shape of a house into an open air theater seating 100 people; it was built as a community project in response to the community’s need for more public space. Watch a video.<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41021&eid=223500>

Zachary Rosenfield (MArch’50) died June 22 in Blue Hill ME of acute leukemia. After MIT Rosenfield joined his father’s architectural firm, specializing in the design and planning of hospitals and health care facilities; after his father retired in 1970, Zachary headed the Rosenfield Partnership until 1990 when he sold the firm to NBBJ; he worked for them until 1995.

Steven Schall<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41020&eid=223500> (MCP’88) has been appointed president of University Settlement<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41019&eid=223500>, established in 1896 as the nation’s first settlement house and continuing today to provide services to immigrant and low-income families.

Frederick ‘Tat’ Stahl<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41018&eid=223500> (MArch’55) died unexpectedly July 26, at 82. During his career, he designed many Boston landmarks, including the State Street Bank building at 225 Franklin St., the Park Street Church Ministries building and 70 Federal Street, his personal favorite. He was also responsible for the restorations of Quincy Market, Old South Meeting House and the Talbot Building at Boston University, as well as the designs of more than 25 community libraries throughout Massachusetts.

Mary Otis Stevens<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41017&eid=223500> (BArch’56), one of only a few female architects in the US during the 1960s and ’70s, was interviewed in a recent issue of the bilingual art/architecture/design journal Domus; the illustrated interview was conducted on the occasion of her 85th birthday by SA+P’s Ute Meta Bauer<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41016&eid=223500> and ACT Fellow Pelin Tan<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41015&eid=223500> (2011).

NEW FEATURES ONLINE

Introducing Four New Professors<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41014&eid=223500>
Experts in Games + Play, Art + Design, Transportation and the Architecture of Money

Yoon: Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41013&eid=223500>
‘Expanding the Whole Notion of Design and Architecture’

Celebrating ‘Deeper History’<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41012&eid=223500>
In Appreciation of David Friedman

Honoring Theory of City Form<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41011&eid=223500>
A Tribute to Julian Beinart

Urban Development in the Global South<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41010&eid=223500>
A Five-Year Program to Strengthen University Teaching Materials

SELECTED PRESS CLIPS

Full Listing: http://sap.mit.edu/news_events/press_clips<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41009&eid=223500>

The Urbanist<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41008&eid=223500> (Architect Magazine) Adèle Naudé Santos discusses the partnership between the newly launched Center for Advanced Urbanism and the AIA’s Decade of Design initiative, which will seek to make design a catalyst within public health through research.

Play With An MIT Tool That Visualizes How The NSA Can Map Your Relationships<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41007&eid=223500> (TechCrunch) Developers at the Media Lab have created a visualization program to map how the National Security Agency can understand your relationships based on who you contact via email and how often.

Is Your Wage A Living Wage? Find Out Here…<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41006&eid=223500> (WHNT) MIT’s ‘Living Wage Calculator’, developed by Amy Glasmeier, is a searchable database designed to give you an idea of how far your income really goes in today’s world.

What is Architecture in the Age of Digital Networking?<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41005&eid=223500> (ArchDaily) Not too many other professions enjoy the luxury of accommodating such a huge diversity of interests as architecture does; perhaps this will be the key to its surviving and evolving.

Marriott Looks to MIT Students for Hotel Lobby of the Future. <http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41004&eid=223500> (Hoteliers) Twenty students from Boston-area colleges were given an assignment: transform the typical hotel space into the hotel lobby of the future.

EXHIBITS

After Katrina: MIT’s Department of Urban Studies + Planning Takes
on Big Questions About Rebuilding<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41003&eid=223500>
Through September 15, 2013, 10–150, MIT Compton Gallery.

PERSONAL SPACE by Postlerferguson<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41002&eid=223500>
Through September 28, 2013, 7–408, Keller Gallery.

Sidewalk City: Mapping the Unmapped<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41001&eid=223500>
Through November 15, 2013, 7–338, Wolk Gallery.

EVENTS

Many of our regular lecture series are in various stages of planning. Our full online calendar is always available here<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=41000&eid=223500>.

September 3-15
Student Loan Art Program Exhibition and Lottery<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40999&eid=223500>. 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm, E15

September 5
OPENING AT THE KELLER GALLERY – Postlerferguson presents "Personal Space"<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40998&eid=223500>. 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 7-408

September 8
Student Loan Art Program Exhibition Public Brunch/Reception<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40997&eid=223500>. 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, E15

September 12
Urban Films: Hands Over the City (1963)<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40996&eid=223500>. 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 3-133

September 13
Architecture Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao, "Underconstruction"<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40995&eid=223500>. 5:30 – 7:30 pm, 7-429

September 17
Migration Seminar<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40994&eid=223500>. 4:30 – 6:00 pm, E40-464

Architecture/HTC Lecture Series: Darby English, "Time Change"<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40993&eid=223500>. 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, 7-429

September 18
MISTI Info Session – Brazil<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40992&eid=223500>. 5:30 pm, E40-496

September 19
Leveraging your international experience: global career, grad school, new adventures<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40991&eid=223500>. 11:45am – 1:00 pm, W20-306

Starr Forum – Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40990&eid=223500>. 4:30 – 6:00 pm, 66-110

Opening Reception for Sidewalk City: Mapping the Unmapped<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40989&eid=223500>. 4:30 – 6:30 pm, 7-338

Architecture/COMP Lecture: Carl Lostritto, "Designing and Computing Some Lines Going for a Walk"<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40988&eid=223500>. 5:00 – 7:00 pm, 7-429

September 24
MISTI Info Session – Japan<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40987&eid=223500>. 5:00 pm, E40-496

The Metropolitan Revolution<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40986&eid=223500>. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, 32-155

September 26
MISTI Info Session – Chile<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40985&eid=223500>. 5:00 pm, E40-496

September 27
MISTI Info Session – China<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40984&eid=223500>. 5:00 pm, E40-496

MISTI Info Session – Singapore<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40983&eid=223500>. 5:00 pm, E40-496

Architecture/AD Lecture: Inaqi Carnicero<http://alumic.mit.edu/redirect.aspx?linkID=40982&eid=223500>. 5:30 – 7:30 pm, 7-429

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