[Editors] SA+P News: May 2015

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 Albert Saiz Featured


 SA+P Ranked First in Architecture Schools


 Lauren Jacobi Wins Rome Prize

  Collier Memorial Dedicated

  Joi Ito on the Future

 	
SA+P NEWS: May 2015

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QUOTES OF NOTE

He really cared about good urban planning, and the quality of our urban environment.

Adèle Naudé Santos speaking of the late Norman Leventhal (SB’38), a generous benefactor of SA+P, MIT and the city of Boston; in 1989, he and his wife established a professorship at SA+P in the field of city-building and large-scale urban environments. Leventhal died April 5. MIT News, April 8.
Live long like he would. Big hearts, big smiles, big service, all love.

Rob Rogers, speaking at a memorial service for his brother Sean Collier, the MIT police officer killed in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings two years ago; the epitaph is inscribed on the permanent memorial designed by J. Meejin Yoon, dedicated April 29. MIT News, March 20.
She had this big smile on her face.

Andrew Krautkramer talking about Belia, a six-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was born with a deformed hand; her big smile was in response to the prosthetic hand he made for her using a 3-D printer at the Fab Lab on his school’s campus. An outgrowth of SA+P’s Center for Bits and Atoms, the MIT Fab Foundation now has nearly 500 such labs around the world. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 20.
I think that human beings actually are unreliable and messy and creative and funny and sloppy.

Joi Ito talking about what we’ve lost since the Industrial Revolution by training human beings to behave like robots and computers – reliable, punctual, not creative, answer-producing; ‘I think that creative learning is key to us regaining what we are as human beings,’ he said. ‘Kindergarten should go through adulthood.’Xconomy, April 22.
The kids go to school. They go to the gym. They go to the swimming pool. That’s the life of the city.

Tunney Lee asserting that Boston’s Chinatown, which is now fighting for its life amid a construction boom, remains a political and social hub with nonprofits, schools and a lively business district; ‘the life is in the neighborhood, not just streets,’ he said, ‘and Chinatown is full of life.’ The Boston Globe, April 1.
 
NEW FEATURES ONLINE

Sean Collier Memorial Dedicated
A Community Effort involving Family, Faculty, Students, Staff and Administration

DUSPx: The LA Connection
Bringing Alums Together to Reconnect

New Certificate Program in Real Estate
Open to Professionals from Around the World

Female Faces in Sustainable Places
Malaysian Women Promoting Sustainable Development

 
SELECTED PRESS CLIPS

Full Listing available here.

MIT Named World's Top University for Architecture (Dezeen) MIT's School of Architecture and Planning is best known for its innovative approach to combining media, technology with urban design and research.

$1.5M Gift From Mellon Foundation (ARTnews) MIT's Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) has been given $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the purpose of supporting multidisciplinary creative experimentation and integration of the arts at MIT.

Olympics Could Hurt Low-Income Residents (Boston Globe) ‘It's one thing to say we're not going to take your home by eminent domain, it's another thing to say that we're not going to price you out of your own neighborhood,’ said Lawrence Vale.

MIT Media Lab's Joi Ito on the Future of Design, Learning & Science (Xconomy) A short, wide-ranging conversation about what he has tried to do so far during his tenure—as well as his plans for the future.

Architectural Gem Shines Again: Belluschi House Saved from the Wrecking Ball (OregonLive.com)The house, with its original Willamina brick, kitchen appliances and cabinets, along with new materials, is now the Belluschi Pavilion, a learning environment for Marylhurst students and an intimate space for public lectures, films and presentations.

 
NEWS FLASHES

SA+P has bidden farewell in recent months to a number of important members of our community:

Norman Leventhal (’38), visionary developer and philanthropist, key supporter of SA+P and vital member of the MIT community, died April 5;
Jordan Gruzen (BArch’57), founding partner of Gruzen Samton, designers of schools, universities, housing complexes and civic and religious buildings, died January 27;
Suhail Al Chalabi (BArch’63), urban planner regarded as a master at analyzing economic impacts of developments, died February 4;
Theodore Bacon (MCP’56), city planner, urban developer, professor of landscape architecture and regional planning, died on May 11, 2014;
Robert Gladstone (BArch’52), visionary developer and civic leader, died December 24, 2014;
Jane Farver, renowned curator, arts administrator, and the former director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, died April 29.
Our condolences to their families, friends and colleagues. We were proud of them all, and grateful.


Cristina Parreño Alonso and Joel Lamere are among the winners of the fourth Design Biennial Boston, presenting ample evidence of Boston’s rich design talent; in addition to a display of their prior work at BSA Space, their firms will construct site-specific installations on the Rose Kennedy Greenway adjacent to a 250-foot-high suspended art piece by Janet Echelman.

Larry Vale has won the ‘Best Book in Urban Affairs Award’ from theUrban Affairs Association for Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities; his co-edited book, Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy has just been published by Cornell University Press.

Maryam Eskandari (SMArchS’11) is re-examining how mosques should be designed in North America; hear her talk about it on CBC Tapestry. She was recently honored at the first annual Harvard Iranian Gala.

Seth Knudsen (MCP’08) has been named a finalist for a 2015 Echoing Green Fellowship for his work on disaster recovery policies and programs; Echoing Green’s Fellowship Programs will offer more than $4.6M in seed-stage funding and support this year to emerging leaders working to bring about positive social change.

Mariel A. Villeré (SMArchS’13) has published an article in PLOT, a contemporary architecture magazine from Argentina, articulating MIT’s pedagogy of teaching public art. The story (in Spanish) is focused on Public Space? Lost & Found, a symposium and exhibit curated by Gediminas Urbonas at MIT in honor of SA+P professor Antoni Muntadas upon his retirement last spring.

Brian Forde, former White House senior advisor for mobile and data innovation, has joined the MIT Media Lab as director of digital currency; in this newly created position, he will work with researchers across the Institute and leading experts at other universities around the world in a new initiative to address some of the most critical challenges to creating a safe, stable, and secure digital currency.

 
UPCOMING WORKSHOP

Join us this August 17-21 for the Architecture Department’s inaugural Executive Education program! Led by Professor Christoph Reinhart, the class will be a hands-on, full-week immersion into MIT’s new Rhino-based urban modeling environment umi. Geared toward an audience of urban planners, city governments, utilities, consultants and architects, the program will teach participants how to design and evaluate high performance neighborhoods regarding energy use, daylight and neighborhood walkability: SA+P alum discount available.

 
EXHIBITS

Joan Jonas: Selected Films and Videos 1972-2005
Through July 5, 2015, List Visual Arts Center.

Female Faces in Sustainable Places: Malaysian Women Promoting Sustainable Development
Through July 31, 2015, Wolk Gallery.

 

EVENTS

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

May 12


Urban Land Reform in Mexico 
12:30pm, 9-354

May 15


Social Policy Lab: a systemic approach
8:30am, E25-111

Spring 2015 BSA, MArch and SMArchS Final Thesis Reviews 
9:30am, 9-450: 7-429

May 16


Family Day: Colorful Shapes Workshop for Babies and Toddlers
10:30am, 6C and 76 lobby

May 18


Financial Health for members of the MIT community
5:00pm, E40-496

May 29


Global Real Estate Forum
7:00am, Boston Federal Bank Building, 600 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA

 
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