Projects advance new scholarship, fuel creative experimentation and critical dialogue, and expand opportunities for public engagement with architecture and its role in contemporary society.
Co-founder and principal of Matter Design, an architectural design practice in Boston, Clifford mines historical techniques and technologies to inform architectural practice.
For WOJR, the making of architecture is the making of artifacts. To think about the design of a work of architecture as such is to regard the acts of making form and reading form as simultaneous and inseparable. Being attuned to architecture in this particular way has lead to a practice that is invested deeply, if not wholly, in the agency of architectural form as the medium through which cultural commentary is conveyed.
Public Space? Lost and Found explores the contemporary evolution of public space from the milieu of design and artistic thinking and practice at the civic scale.
All told, being an art historian at MIT means that “I’ve had to think well outside my comfort zone,” she says. “In the long term, that’s terrific. I’ve had to make my own work accessible to people coming from very different kinds of backgrounds. That’s been good. And in teaching, that’s essential.”
The research of Assistant Professor Caitlin Mueller focuses on simulations to determine both future operational energy and initial embodied energy in material fabrication.
Ana Miljački's 'The Optimum Imperative' examines architecture’s multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.
