Energy simulation may be a key to unlocking the energy conservation potential of new and existing buildings. However, a number of barriers hinder the efficacy of this tool. This talk highlights research aimed at chipping away these barriers. Solutions range from improving its integration into an early design workflow to unearthing and improving sources of model inaccuracy, such as occupant behavior and urban context.
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Fall 2017
Lectures are free and open to the public. For some lectures, members of the MIT community with IDs will be admitted 30 minutes prior to the lecture and the general public will be admitted as space permits.
Except as noted, lectures are at 6:00 pm in Room 7-429, located at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. An interactive map may be found on-line at: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
Sep 11, 2017 - 12:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Sep 11, 2017 - 7:00pm
ACT Cube, E15-001
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures.
Sep 12, 2017 - 12:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Architecture & Urban Studies & Planning Faculty Roundtable
Garnette Cadogan, Dayna Cunningham, Yolande Daniels, Mark Jarzombek, Justin Steil
Room 7-429/Long Lounge, 12 PM
Sep 15, 2017 - 5:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Mapping for machines, by machines is big business. Yet mapping’s artificial intelligences also have the potential to transform myriad design and research areas, to influence policy-making and governance, to support environmental preservation and public health – and, in the process, to pose critical questions about how our cartographic technologies conceptualize and operationalize space.
Sep 20, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
MIT Department of Architecture / Fall 2017 Lecture Series
Dinner with the In-Laws: Traumatic Memorial
Sep 21, 2017 - 12:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
September 21, 12 PM - 1 PM: Panel Discussion with Marie Law Adams, Lorena Bello, Andrew Brose, Anton Garcia-Abril, Adèle Naudé Santos, and Rafi Segal; Moderated by James Wescoat | Room 7-429/Long Lounge
September 22, 12 PM - 2 PM: Workshop presentations by students and faculty | Room 9-255/DUSP City Arena
Sep 25, 2017 - 6:00pm
ACT Cube/E15-001
Following Cristina Ricupero’s special interest in the mechanisms of contemporary secrecy, she will focus this two-part program on espionage, a topic she has been currently developing for an exhibition project with Alexandra Midal (independent curator and professor at the design program at HEAD-Haute Ecole d’Art et Design Geneva).
Sep 25, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 3-133
As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, Matar has dedicated her artistic practice to exploring both sides of her cultural background, cross-cultural experience, and personal narrative, in addressing issues of personal and collective identity, through photographing girls and women both in the United States where she lives and in the Middle East where she is from. Focusing on both cultures is especially important to her in the current political climate we live in, where the ‘them vs. us’ rhetoric is so prevalent.
Sep 26, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Paul Goldberger, who the Huffington Post has called “the leading figure in architecture criticism,” is now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011 he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design, a division of The New School.
Oct 3, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
This interdisciplinary lecture will address a proposed shift to make multi-stall bathrooms on campus accessible to people of all genders, ages, sizes, and abilities. Professor and architect Joel Sanders, will situate this issue in a cultural/historical context, charting the evolution of his thinking about the bathroom as an overdetermined space that registers deep seated cultural conceptions about gender, abjection and embodied difference. Then he will present design prototypes for inclusive restrooms.
Oct 5, 2017 - 6:00pm
Lecture Hall 10-250
Join the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) for a preview of new faculty work in development through Mellon Foundation grants:
Oct 14, 2017 - 10:00am
75 Amherst St, E14-633 / Media Lab Lecture Hall, 6th Floor
POLEMIC!
MIT History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art Graduate Student Conference
75 Amherst St.
E-14 633, Media Lab Lecture Hall, 6th Floor
October 14, 2017
10 AM - 7 PM
Oct 16, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 3-133
Raya is an award winning Architect and urban designer with 25 years of professional experience having worked in Baghdad, Germany, Boston, New York and Dubai.
Oct 17, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Cole Roskam has been an associate professor of architectural history and theory in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong since 2010. His research and teaching include topics in 20th century and contemporary architectural and urban history as well as theory. He is particularly interested in understanding architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world.
Oct 19, 2017 - 6:00pm
Lecture Hall 10-250
In order to get to a carbon neutral building stock – which is e.g. required by the EU Carbon roadmap by 2050 – our efforts need to be smart and holistic on all scales of design. At the same time it is essential that a transformation process provide great environmental qualities – indoor as well as outdoor (public realm). This requires mitigation and adaptation strategies, which can only be accomplished by transforming the design process: “Form Follows Process” (Chris Bangle, chief of design at BMW between 1992 and 2009).
Oct 20, 2017 - 2:00pm
ACT Cube/E15-001
David Reinfurt will report on the last six months in Rome as a fellow at the American Academy interrogating one small, industrially produced artwork-product from 1965. The Tetracono was designed by Bruno Munari and produced by Danese Milano as an austere 15-cm black steel cube housing four aluminum cones, each painted half-red and half-green, which spin at four distinct speeds on an 18-minute cycle. Its function is to “show forms while they are in the process of becoming.”
Oct 20, 2017 - 5:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Boris Groys (b.1947) is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist and an internationally renowned expert on Soviet-era art and literature, specifically, the Russian avant-garde. He is a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, and a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS.
Oct 26, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
At the intersection of art, engineering and architecture “Light in the Public Realm” will explore James Carpenter’s focus upon the phenomenological qualities of light as a central organizing principle of the public realm. Using infrastructural, cultural and civic projects, James Carpenter will outline some of his firms’ innovative strategies that merge program, performance, structure and light to reveal the unique characteristics of a place and to embody a deeper collective experience of nature.
Oct 27, 2017 - 5:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
We live in a world where much of what we know about things is affected by the manner in which those things are represented in digital form. In fact, our interaction with that world itself in increasingly influenced by the manner in which it is seen through through the eyes of geospatial technology.
Nov 2, 2017 - 6:00pm
Lecture Hall 10-250
This lecture is presented in parallel with the 2017 ACADIA Conference, Disciplines and Disruptions.
British designer Thomas Heatherwick founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring craft, design, architecture and urban planning together in a single workspace. Today a team of 200, including architects, designers and makers, work from a combined studio and workshop in King’s Cross, London.
Nov 7, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Beatriz Colomina is Professor of History and Theory in the School of Architecture and founding director of the program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, sexuality and media. Her books include Are We Human?
Nov 9, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, is recognised as one of the leading architects of her generation. She has developed an international reputation for design excellence, as well as a voice advocating for the social project of architecture, and the role of women in the profession. Born in Ontario, Canada in 1962, she moved to London in 1988 after graduating with a BES and BArch from the University of Waterloo.
Nov 13, 2017 - 12:30pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Franca Trubiano is Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Architecture) at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Registered Architect with l'Ordre des Architectes du Quebec and an International Associate of the AIA. She conducts funded research in the areas of Advanced Energy Retrofits and Building Information Modeling. She teaches in construction technology, materials, theories of building, integrated design, architectural ecologies, and high performance buildings.
Nov 13, 2017 - 6:00pm
ACT Cube/E15-001
Postcommodity will discuss their 2015 land art installation and socially engaged artwork Repellent Fence, and the implications of this work on their art practice, their future work, and the field of contemporary art as we approach the year 2043 (when the US transitions to a non-white majority).
Nov 13, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
MIT Department of Architecture / Fall 2017 Lecture Series
Dinner with the In-Laws: Terms of Work
Faculty: Mariana Ibanez, Sheila Kennedy, Rami El Samahy
Moderated by Timothy Hyde
This lecture is organized by the Architecture Student Council (ASC).
Nov 14, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Professor of Art History at the University of Sydney. She specializes in nineteenth-century British and Ottoman art with particular expertise in Orientalism, the history of artistic exchanges between the Ottoman Empire and Europe and the culture of travel. Her books include: Istanbul Exchanges. Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-century visual culture (University of California Press, 2015), Intimate Outsiders.
Nov 16, 2017 - 6:00pm
Lecture Hall 10-250
Five years ago, Christian Kerez taught a studio at the Harvard Graduate School of Design titled ‘Ornamental Space’. The studio served as a starting point to verify if an abstract term could trigger the design process. The concepts developed in the studio contributed to a competition entry for a cultural center in Beijing the following year.
Nov 17, 2017 - 5:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
In discourses about design, computation often operates ambivalently both as a reference to concrete technologies, and as an epistemic template for generative, descriptive, or analytical aspirations. Tracing early disclosures of this productive ambivalence, this talk will reflect on two artifacts from the history of Computer-Aided Design. The first is the “Plex,” a theoretical construct developed by mathematician Douglas Ross in the mid 1950s, which helped steer early CAD research and foreshadowed object orientation.
Nov 20, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge
Fall 2017 NOMAS Lecture
Nov 30, 2017 - 6:00pm
Lecture Hall 10-250
Dec 4, 2017 - 6:00pm
ACT Cube/E15-001
Judith Barry utilizes a research-based methodology to explore a wide range of topics. Both the form and the content of her work evolve as the research proceeds. She often makes use of installation, in various forms and including exhibition design, as a way to combine many of her disparate interests. These immersive environments are based on experiments incorporating architecture, sculpture, performance, theatre, film/video/new media, graphics, and interactivity.
Dec 4, 2017 - 6:00pm
Room 7-429/Long Lounge