Friday, May 18 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Three simultaneous SMArchS reviews will present in Rooms 9-450A, 9-450B, and 9-451.
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May 15, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
May 14, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Friday, May 18, 2012. The MArch reviews will be in the morning from 9 am to 12:55 pm. The BSA reviews begin at 1:50 pm and will end by 5:40. All reviews are taking place in the AVT/Long Lounge and the 4th floor pin-up space.
May 03, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Before the Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill, Boston was restored and opened to the public in 2011, it suffered decades of neglect, disuse, and looting. Built in 1887, designed by Arthur Vinal, Boston City Architect at the time, to pump water from the nearby reservoir into the Boston water system, the building also housed the first testing lab for municipal water in the country. Rescued from demolition by concerned citizen groups and developers, the Waterworks has been restored as a museum, and many ancillary buildings have now become residences.
Apr 30, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
The American Academy in Rome congratulates the winners of the 116th annual Rome Prize Competition. The winners’ names were announced at the Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony held at the Harmonie Club in New York City on 26 April. Recipients of the 2012-2013 Rome Prizes are provided with a fellowship that includes a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a period of six months to two years in Rome, Italy.
Apr 25, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Research in the Building Technology Program conducted by David Quinn and Professor John E Fernandez, in partnership with Daniel Wiesmann and Professor Paulo Ferrao of Insitute Superio Technico has resulted in an interactive web-mapping tool, urbmet.org. This web-map includes data for 40 cities from the USA, and allows the user to explore energy and material intensity patterns. It maps population density and per-capita usage of residential energy and building materials across US cities, with data visualized at the neighbourhood level.
Apr 24, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Mitchell Joachim, graduate of our Doctoral Program in Design and Computation, is featured in Dwell Magazine's "The Now 99."
Read his comments and those from other respondents here: www.dwell.com/articles/last-words-take-two.html
View his blog here: http://archinode.blogspot.com/
Apr 25, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
The Hinman Research Building project by Lord, Aeck and Sargent in collaboration with Office dA (Nader Tehrani) received an Interiors Honor Award from the AIANY Design Awards as well as an Environments Honorable Mention in the I.D. Annual Design Review. The project has already received the numerous accolades over the year, including:
Apr 25, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Dortoir Familial by NADAAA, Nader Tehrani’s practice, wins an AIANY Honor Award in the Unbuilt category.
See article in Architect’s Newspaper.
Project Description:
For centuries, the enclosed courtyard has been overlaid on various geographic settings—each time transformed according to the climate, rituals, and construction practices of the place. A vehicle to capture the outdoors within the building, the courtyard is defined by its interiority.
Apr 25, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
In early February, a Roxbury Project Review Committee (PRC) voted unanimously to endorse Melnea Partners, including NADAAA, for the development of a City lot known as “Parcel 9.”
Apr 25, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Nader Tehrani’s work is featured in the exhibit WBA3: Architecture in the Expanded Field (March 8–April 7, 2012) at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His projects include Fabrication Coincidences, Voromuro, and Voroduo.
Apr 25, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Nader Tehrani’s Tongxian Art project will be featured in unMade in China: Architecture Undone in P.R.C. an exhibit devoted to unbuilt projects in China that would have transformed the built environment today. Exhibit runs April19- May 19 at ide@s Gallery in Shanghai.
Apr 10, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Professor Sheila Kennedy and KVA recently opened their newly designed UPenn Law School building.
Mar 23, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Veneto Experience is offered to students interested in design at diverse scales of craft, architecture, landscape and urban form. By engaging in on-site fieldwork in and around Venice with particular convergence on projects by the Venetian architect and educator Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), the program provides opportunities to develop critical thinking in relating the power of place to design.
Mar 21, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Professor John Ochsendorf conducted a two-day design-build vaulting workshop at the University of Utah supported by the McMurrin Visiting Professorship. The workshop was co-taught by Mallory Taub (Berkeley), Kent Diebolt (Vertical Access), and Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla (Minnesota). One of the students attending, David Polk, posted about the experience on his blog, Doodles Designs and Daydreams.
Mar 12, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
The efforts of James Wescoat and Shun Kanda, along with their students, are featured in Architectural Record: http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2012/03/MIT-Program-Aid-Post-Tsu...
Additional information is available on the MIT News site: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/japan-311-grant-year-two.html
Mar 05, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Northern Speculations
A Toronto-based architecture firm is investing a considerable amount of energy into improving a food delivery network for Canada's Far North.
Read article here: http://www.canadianarchitect.com/news/northern-speculations/1000833549/
Pamela Ritchot is an architect and urban designer currently working at planningAlliance in Toronto on a regional development project in Northern Manitoba.
Image courtesy: Lateral Office, Toronto
Feb 28, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
Opening February 29, the new MoMA Media Lounge presents the museum's audio and video works in a flexible structure. Read more here: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1258
Feb 17, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
IN FORM, is now on view and open to the public at the new BSA Space. The exhibition was curated and designed by Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley, and Mark Pasnik of pinkcomma gallery.
Feb 15
5:30 PM
Wolk Gallery, 7-338
Feb 15, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett
On view in the Wolk Gallery, February 15 - April 13, 2012.
The Freelon Group, Architects is a fifty-five person design firm founded in 1990 by Philip Freelon (MArch, ‘77). Located in Durham, North Carolina, The Freelon Group specializes in the design of museums and cultural centers, and educational and research facilities. Their projects have included the National Center for Civil & Human Rights in Atlanta, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.