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Press Articles
"The House of the Future: Building Blocks" - Popular Science (November, 2006) [PDF-2.13Mb], [PDF - Text only, 26Kb]
"The PlaceLab: Research in the Real World to Develop Tomorrow's Technologies" - FRAMES, a publication of the MIT Media Lab, Isuse #130 (September, 2005) [PDF]
"The PlaceLab" - The Discovery Channel (aired in Canada on November 30th, 2004) [Streaming Video]
"Live-in lab" - Business & Innovation, The Boston Globe (October 4, 2004) [PDF]
"A Living Laboratory in Cambridge" - PLAN, the newsletter of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Issue #60 (January 2005) [web, PDF]
"Homes That Make House Calls" - Business Week (July, 2004) [web, PDF]
"The Digital Apartment" - Innovation News, Technology Review (June 2004) [PDF]
Archive
Living for Tomorrow - Metropolis Magazine (December, 2002)
Space Invaders - Architectural Record (March 2002)
House_n Living Lab - The MIT Report (September 2001)
Upstream: Smart Home Care - Technology Review (September 2001)
Things that Matter: Edifice Complex - Technology Review (July/August 2001)
"Blobs, Pods, and People" - Washington Post (March 25, 2001)
"Home Tech" - Boston Globe (March 2001)
"Architect-In-A-Box" - Builder (September 2000)
"Home of the Future" - Popular Science (September 2000)
Ken Wacks, "Architecture + Home Systems = The MIT Home of the Future". Home Toys Article (June 2000)
"Editorial: Beyond the Box" - Architecture (May 2000)
"Smart Houses: Labs for Living" - Architecture (May 2000)|
"MIT Views the Future @ Home" - Residential Systems (Jan/Feb 2000)
The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News (December 22, 1999)
"A House Called HAL" - The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (December, 1999)
"Home Work" - ARCHITECTURE (September, 1999)
"Engineers Ready to Build MIT's Home of the Future" - Future Homes (March, 1999)
"The Home of the Future" - The Business Journal of Portland (February, 1998)The PlaceLab provides data about the complexity of everyday life.
Model of a distributed building network, work by House_n student TJ McLeish
House_n researchers use sketches, concepts, and prototypes to explore ideas in home building and technologies.
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