May 25
4:00 PM
328 Massachusetts Ave....

Something Very Specific

May 21, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

May 25–June 10, 4–8pm
Former Salvation Army thrift store, 328 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Opening Reception: May 25, 6–10pm

ART SHOW and EVENTS by Art, Culture and Technology graduate students at MIT. Exploring silence, ambivalence, non-knowledge, and psychodynamic interaction. Featuring diagrams for living, Sausage Tank, a signifying baseball cap, and dynamic video displays.

Join us for scheduled events and open hours May 25 through June 10 at the former Salvation Army thrift store, 328 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Faculty and Alumni Win Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers

May 20, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Brandon Clifford and Skylar Tibbits, lecturers, and Rafael Luna, (MArch, '10) are among the winners of the thirty-second annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. (website) The League Prize is one of North Americaʼs most prestigious awards for young architects. The program exemplifies the Leagueʼs longstanding commitment to identifying and nurturing the development of talented young architects and designers.

Alumni Seek Hubway Feedback on New Urban Development Site

May 20, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Karin Brandt (MCP, '10), David Quinn (BT PhD, '12) and Daniel Wiesmann (IST Portugal, PhD '12), recently launched a new civic technology company, coUrbanize. The site, http://courbanize.com, features a pilot project with the City of Boston to gather feedback on locations of new Hubway stations.

Additional news from the City of Boston is available on their site: http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id-6133

Gediminas Urbonas to speak at Forum One

May 10, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Forum One, International forum on personal, professional and business leadship, will feature Gediminas Urbonas in the Participant of Inspiring Stories Session.

Forum One 2013 is in Kaunas, Lithuania on June 1 and 2, and will also feature keynote speaker Sir Richard Branson, and financial coach Bodo Schafer.
May 15
7:30 PM
7-408, Keller Gallery

Beginnings: Drawing Early Architecture

May 09, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Curated by: Timothy Cooke and Andrew Ferentinos

At a time when digital media in architectural representation dominates, this exhibition highlights the beauty and utility of hand drawings. Beginnings displays a selection from over three hundred drawings that were created for the forthcoming textbook, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective (Wiley, 2013) by Mark Jarzombek, MIT Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture.

May 14
7:00 PM
E15-001, ACT Cube

Currency ~ Revolution: spatial strategies of resistance

May 01, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Please join thresholds 41 REVOLUTION! editor Ana María León and Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy: 04 CURRENCY issue editor Adrian Blackwell for short presentations on the overlapping contents of their journals’ latest issues and the objectives that inform their respective structures. What spatial strategies have been deployed to resist the political and economic repressions of past and present? How can journals function as research vehicles?
May 01
10:00 AM
Varies

Luke Fowler / Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation

Apr 30, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Screening
10am–12:30pm
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture
1–3pm:ACT
Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
May 09
10:00 AM
ACT Cube, E-15-001

Guerino Mazzola and Reza Negarestani / Sonic Practice, Discourse and Auditory Experimentation

Apr 30, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Guerino Mazzola earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Zurich University, where he also taught algebraic geometry. Mazzola has been a major figure within the European school of mathematical music theory since 1980 and has written six books on the subject including The Topos of Music, which was proposed by the American Mathematical Society as the mathematics book of the year in 2005.

India's Greatest Architect: Charles Correa

May 01, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

The RIBA presents a new landmark exhibition accompanied by the 'Out of India' season of talks and events. Celebrating the work of Correa it explores stories and influences from modern urban India.

Tuesday, May 14 2013; 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

Jun 01
9:00 AM
E14-633

Deeper History Forum

Apr 18, 2013. Posted by Anne Deveau

Deeper History: Contemporary Considerations of Architecture's Long Past is a symposium and tribute to HTC/MIT’s investment in histories of architecture and the arts before modernism announced itself.

MIT Represented at Ideas City Conference

Apr 18, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

With Joi Ito giving the Keynote Address, J. Meejin Yoon at the Panel Discussion, and Lydia Kallipoliti (SMArchS HTC '04), in another panel discussion, the Department of Architecture is well represented.

IDEAS CITY: Untapped Capital Conference
Founded by the New Museum
Wed/ Thurs May 1-2
Great Hall Cooper Union, NYC
May 06
9:00 AM
E15-070

Sustainable Urban Design—Case Studies and Design Workflows

Apr 12, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Over the next two decades, the UN expects that we need to accommodate new homes for 1.7 billion city dwellers. There is an undeniable need for concepts and solutions that lead to more sustainable urban growth, concepts that work across a range of climates and cultures. What are those solutions? Are there good examples? How can we evaluate them on a large scale? What role can computer based environmental performance analysis play in this context?

Two Students Awarded at Poster Competition

Apr 22, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Carolyn Jenkins (MA '13), and Alexander Keller (SMArchS BT '13), won two of five prizes awarded at the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, in Mumbai, India last week. Jenkins won Second Place, and Keller won Highly Commended.

Attending were 24 students from eight universities who had their posters chosen for the conference.

Skylar Tibbits Featured on CNN

Apr 11, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

The "Self-Assembly" research of MIT Architecture Lecturer Skylar Tibbits was featured on CNN.com yesterday.

Additional links:
Tibbits at TED 2013
The Self-Assembly Lab

Thresholds 42: Human (Call for Submissions)

Mar 14, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Please email submissions by April 30, 2013
thresholds@mit.edu
Download Flyer

thresholds 42: Human prompts us to consider the past and present changing notion of ‘the human’ with regards to its physical, virtual, and psychological habitat.
Apr 18
8:00 PM
Keller Gallery, Rm. 7-...

Incremental Change

Apr 09, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Filson and Rohrbacher deliver a status report on AtFAB, a series of customizable, downloadable furniture objects designed for distributed CNC manufacturing and DIY. Incremental Change presents the furniture objects, parameter design and interface with an update on the project’s increasing global reach. AtFAB started as a demonstration of how networked digital fabrication might reduce the embedded energy in things, connect designers more directly to their markets, and enable new possibilities of self-initiated design practice.

NADAAA’s Dortoir Familial Wins BSA Honor Award, Unbuilt

Apr 25, 2012. Posted by Darren Bennett

NADAAA, founded by Nader Tehrani (Professor, Head of Department, Architectural Design- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, 2007 - present), receives a Boston Society of Architects Awards for Dortoir Familial: http://architecture.mit.edu/architectural-design/project/dortoir-familia...

Honor Award, Unbuilt
2012 Boston Society of Architects Design Award
Dortoir Familial

Two Faculty Projects Selected for Design Biennial Boston 2013

Feb 22, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

Ana Miljacki and Lee Moreau (Project_Rorschach 2013) and Brandon CLifford (Matter Design) were selected as two out of four winers of Design Biennial Boston 2013.

DESIGN BIENNIAL BOSTON 2013 @ BSA SPACE
curated by over,under

on View From Feb 21 - May 15, 2013

BSA SPACE: 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02210 | 617-391-4039
http://bsaspace.org/exhibits/design-biennial-boston/

Infrastructural Monument: CAU Symposium

Feb 25, 2013. Posted by Darren Bennett

The new SA+P Center for Advanced Urbanism is hosting a symposium on April 8 and 9, 2013. More information and a schedule are available on their website, http://cau.mit.edu/conference/2013-cau-symposium.