[Save] INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT March 2 Michael Singer

[Javier Arbona]

THE MIT DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
and
PRACTICING THE ELUSIVE: INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
SPRING 2004 SPEAKER SERIES
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Tuesday, March 2
Room 10-250 MIT [ 
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         Michael SINGER  "Michael Singer, Projects"
         Artist, New York


Michael Singer has been involved in a variety of landscape and outdoor 
environment and infrastructure projects in the United States and Europe.
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.

more on Singer at http://www.michaelsinger.com/


PRACTICING THE ELUSIVE:
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
an initiative of the Sustainable Urban Development Society,
(sfgs-suds at mit.edu)
a part of Students for Global Sustainability

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