[Editors] SA+P News: June 2014

[Scott R Campbell]

  New Head of Architecture

  Jarzombek: When Does Architecture Begin?

  Using Legos to Solve Real Life Problems

  Garcia-Abril: Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory

  Tehrani: Transforming Practice from the Bottom Up

 	
SA+P NEWS: June 2014

June again.  Graduation again.

This year with Ellen Kullman, first female CEO of DuPont and listed among the world’s most powerful women by Forbes and Fortune.

MIT will offer a webcast, with streamtext captioning, of both the commencement exercises and the Investiture of doctoral hoods; the webcast links will become available shortly before ceremonies begin.

For technical questions, contact comm2014video at mit.edu. Or follow #MIT2014 on Twitter.  And congratulations to all our graduates!

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QUOTES OF NOTE

It’s not like the shoe would understand that you’re playing basketball, of course.

Skylar Tibbits talking about the potential application of his research to the design of adaptable shoes that would change shape to support your ankles more if you jumped into a basketball game; ‘it can tell what kind of energy or what type of forces are being applied by your foot’ he said, ‘it could transform based on pressure.’  Smithsonian Magazine, May 16.
We are under attack.

Otto Scharmer blogging about a workshop at SA+P’s Community Innovators Lab that brought together a group of community leaders, most of them people of color, working toward creating an economy that generates wealth and well-being for all; ‘we are under attack’ was a recurring theme in the discussion about the socio-economic divide in the US.  Huffington Post, April 30.
They’re displayed like Victorian reliquaries, with every man a saint and every family holy.

Mark Feeney reviewing ‘Daguerre’s American Legacy’, an exhibit of more than 250 daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes and more on view at the MIT Museum through January 4; ‘to call [the exhibit] a visual census would be far too sweeping,’ he writes, ‘but not altogether inaccurate. The show gives a sense of just how large and how varied an increasingly large and varied country was becoming.’  Boston Globe, May 6.
We just didn’t want to live in a world where there were just ice cubes.

Edward Hoa (MBA’15) explaining why he invented the perfect mold for ball-shaped ice, his response to the challenge presented in ‘Design Across Scales’, a new class co-taught by Neri Oxman and Meejin Yoon. The assignment was to ‘make something that makes something, and then use the tool to make that something’; responses included devices for shooting aerial photographs, planning cities and folding paper airplanes. MIT News, April 20.
It’s glorious and epic.

Joost Bonsen talking about the tradition of hacks at MIT; ‘pranks reinforce the cultural ethos of creative joy,’ he says.  ‘We’re curious and playful animals, until it’s pounded out of us.’  Business Insider, May 12.
 

NEW FEATURES ONLINE

J. Meejin Yoon Appointed Head of Architecture
Widely Honored for Her Work in Architecture, Design and Education

Mapping the Unmapped 
Using Cell Phones and Social Media to Understand the City

Minsky Honored for Lifetime Achievements
Pioneering Work and Mentoring in the Field of Artificial Intelligence

 

NEWS FLASHES

Ann Beha (MArch’75) has won a 2014 Honor Award for Excellence from the Society for College and University Planning, in recognition of her firm’s design for the University of Chicago Center for Economics.

Michael Johnson (MCP’97) has been named president of the MIT Club of New York; Johnson is currently Senior Advisor to the General Manager at the New York City Housing Authority, the largest public housing authority in North America.

Karen Kensek (BS’84, Architecture) has not one but two books coming out this spring – Technical Design Series: Building Information Modeling (Routledge) and (with Douglas Noble) Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice (Wiley); Kensek is on the faculty of the USC School of Architecture.

Ann Lui (SMArchS’14, History, Theory & Criticism) is among the winners of the WorldWide Storefront competition, a two-month program of ten simultaneous exhibits and events around the globe; Lui’s team will produce The Spectacle Syndicate – a custom-built semi-trailer that will stop in five eastern seaboard cities over the course of the two months and serve as a curatorial space to disseminate discourse from city to city, always highlighting local expertise and regional talent.  Beer will be served.

John Merrill (BArch’49) died April 25 at his home in Tiburon CA; son of MIT architecture alumnus Louis Skidmore, a founder of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, John served as a senior Managing Partner of SOM until his retirement in 1989 and was president of the San Francisco chapter of the AIA in 1976.

Steven Shortridge (MArch’89), an influential and highly-recognized Los Angeles modernist architect, passed away May 3 at the age of 52; his career spanned more than twenty years.

Jamie Zigelbaum (SM’08, Media Arts and Science) has been commissioned to create a large installation in Basel Switzerland this June as part of Design Miami/Basel; Zigelbaum’s Triangular Series will consist of 59 large tetrahedra suspended in the entrance hall of the Basel Exhibition Centre, designed by Herzog & De Meuron, pulsing with light and responding to the people sharing the space with them.

 

SELECTED PRESS CLIPS

Full Listing available here.

The art and politics of public space (MIT News) "Urban Crisis" was spelled out in red capital letters, against a neon background, on the screen behind Antoni Muntadas, a professor in MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) program.

Missing In The Housing Recovery: New Houses (NPR) Economist William Wheaton at MIT says the housing market will start to recover more strongly as household formation picks up again.

Are Smart Cities Too Clever for Their Own Good? (Huffington Post UK) Amsterdam, for example, recently collaborated with MIT to develop a smart bike equipped with sensors to deliver real-time info on air contamination and traffic congestion.

Video Artist Sputniko! On Japan, Creativity And Her New Gig At The MIT Media Lab (Forbes)  She strode into our classroom wearing a black miniskirt, a white leather jacket and plastic sunglasses atop her head. That wasn’t the only reason the artist who goes by the name Sputniko! (real name: Hiromi Ozaki) jolted our curiosity.

Harvard i-lab project joins with MIT CoLab artist for community-sourced Back Bay mural (BetaBoston) Ernest M. English, an artist based out of MIT’s Community Innovators Lab, will be unveiling an enormous canvas that will hang by the Boylston Street entrance to the Prudential Center.

At MIT — Discovering Hans Scharoun, Architect and Visionary (The Arts Fuse)  “Even today, the freshness and accessibility of the watercolors are visually startling." - critic Mark Favermann of The Arts Fuse reviews ‘Hans Scharoun: Architect and Visionary’.

 

EXHIBITS

Hans Scharoun: Architect and Visionary 
Through August 15, 2014, Wolk Gallery.

MILLIØNS, New Massings for New Masses
Through August 31, 2014, The Keller Gallery.

ACT | Public Space? Lost & Found Exhibition
Through October 30, 2014, The Media Lab.


EVENTS

Many of our regular lecture series are in various stages of planning. Our full online calendar is always available here.

June 12
Understanding Real Estate Markets.
9:00am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 13
Understanding Real Estate Markets.
9:00am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 16
Mutual Gains Approach to Real Estate Negotiations.
9am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 17
Mutual Gains Approach to Real Estate Negotiations.
9am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 19
Real Estate Finance: Fundamentals.
9am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 20
Real Estate Finance: Fundamentals.
9am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 23
Commercial Real Estate Development.
9am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 24
Commercial Real Estate Development.
9am – 5:00pm, 9-343

June 25
Commercial Real Estate Development.
9am – 5:00pm, 9-343

 

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