NEWS DIGEST OF THE MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING (A) Days after the earthquake, Haitians continued to search through the rubble for any sign of life. Petionville, Port-au-Prince.

(B) A model of Jan Wampler’s project outside Port-au-Prince, showing a housing cluster, several classrooms and windmills to help power the campus.

(C) Jean Wilfred on the destroyed (A) Photo: Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross streets of once-bustling Port-au- Prince. January 24, 2010. This spring we dedicated our new Media Lab Complex, designed WHEN THE CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE HIT HAITI IN JANUARY, FACULTY AND by Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki, and I am pleased to STUDENTS FROM SA+P WERE AMONG THE FIRST RESPONDERS IN THE ACADEMIC report that it is in all ways a truly spectacular building. It was COMMUNITY, MUCH AS THEY WERE FIVE YEARS AGO WHEN KATRINA STRUCK originally designed in the 1990s, an exceptional point in Maki’s NEW ORLEANS. career, and I personally think this building is one of the best examples of that period. Other related efforts in the Department of The ground floor, with its soaring atrium and three differ- Architecture include Professor Sheila Kenne- dy’s Portable Light Project in collaboration ent gallery spaces, provides us with a venue for exhibits that HELPING OUT IN HAITI with the Media Lab’s Dale Joachim, developing we’ve never had before. And the top floor, with its roof terrace cell phone charging and lighting technologies t o and its panoramic views of the river and the skyline, A WAVE OF STUDENT AND FACULTY EFFORTS be integrated into local textile materials, and provides us a place where the whole school can gather, which is Professor Mark Goulthorpe’s effort to develop composite thermoplastic housing that can be something else we’ve never had before. (B) assembled by unskilled labor without any heavy (C) structural elements; the fabrication machine is The complex houses a range of research and teaching pro- In an outgrowth of a quickly convened work- designed to fit inside a shipping container so it grams that will benefit from daily interaction. In addition to the shop during Independent Activities Period, and can be locally deployed. an ensuing new class at the Media Lab, gradu- A number of faculty from the Department Media Lab and its many research groups, it is home to the ate students Aaron Zinman and Greg Elliott of Urban Studies and Planning were also Scheller Teacher Education Program from the Department of developed Konbit, a suite of hardware and soft- called upon to offer perspective on how to ware systems to index the skills of Haitian respond to the crisis. Former department head Urban Studies and Planning, and it hosts our new Program in residents so NGOs like Partners In Health can Larry Vale, editor of The Resilient City, was Art, Culture and Technology, introduced in this issue. quickly find and employ them. featured on the BBC World Service, CNN.com, In addition to aiding reconstruction, Konbit NPR’s Talk of the Nation and The Takeaway, as These programs, and the school as a whole, will benefit aims to discourage the outsourcing of labor to well as in a PBS Frontline documentary about hugely from their increased visibility on campus. You can actually non-Haitians, because when NGOs bring in out- Haiti; Professor Diane Davis was quoted on siders for relief and reconstruction work, indig- The Root, noting that the crisis is ‘an opportu- see the new building’s profile on the Cambridge skyline from enous Haitians are prevented from getting nity to rethink the city as a whole, how all the

Boston—extremely modern and forward-looking—and in the Amanda Photo: Levesque training that could be valuable once the relief pieces go together’; and Professor Phil Thomp- teams have left. son contributed to The Root as well, with an same glance you can see the MIT dome and all it represents in In the Department of Architecture, Professor article on why ‘Haiti Should Beware the Well- Jan Wampler continued work he began last year Intentioned’. Thompson was also invited by the terms of our rich tradition and legacy. The two of them together in a workshop focused on the design and con- Prime Minister’s office in Haiti to offer advice make a strong statement about MIT and about the place of the struction of a sustainable community in a village on principles for housing reconstruction, in outside of Port-au-Prince, featuring a school, preparation for the UN’s International Donors School of Architecture + Planning within it. a community center, a farm, a living area for Conference at the end of March. orphans and a laboratory for medical learning. As all these efforts were underway, of Research Associate Reinhard Goethert’s class course, another drastic earthquake hit Chile, ‘The New Practitioner’, also focused on Haiti stimulating yet another wave of outreach from this spring as part of its exploration of incremen- MIT, initially focused on fundraising. An MIT Adèle Naudé Santos tally expanded core housing as an effective Chile Relief Fund was established online and way to rebuild communities, and Lecturer Cherie Chilean students at MIT and Harvard set up a Abbanat included a unit on Haiti in Methods web site to collect donations. In the MIT tradi- of Policy Analysis in the Department of Urban tion, more efforts will surely follow. Studies and Planning. more: sap.mit.edu/plan Photo: Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross Frenkel/American Talia Photo: MIT Introduces Minor The Future of Urban Mobility FINDING THE NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK in Energy Studies A Global Collaboration to Make Several Opportunities Offered Urban Transport Sustainable A PRIZE-WINNING APPROACH from SA+P Curriculum TO SOCIAL NETWORKING Image:Image: SENSEable City Lab and SENSEable City Lab and AT&TAT&T Labs Labs As of this year, MIT is offering a minor in energy The design of the scheme meant the research- studies to all undergraduate students, allowing ers didn’t get any of the prize money but the them to obtain a degree in any major discipline team’s real motivation was to explore how to while also gaining expertise in one of the world’s mobilize the vast resources of the human net- most pressing problems. work and exploit the opportunities that come Unlike energy concentrations at most other with living in such a connected world. Accord- institutions, and unlike other concentrations at ing to team member Riley Crane, ‘we believe MIT, the new minor is designed to be inherently we have developed a set of tools that can find cross-disciplinary, encompassing all of MIT’s five the proverbial needle in a haystack’. schools including the School of Architecture + The team assembled its strategy in only Planning, which contributes one subject to the four days. On Wednesday, they started discuss- core curriculum and five of the offered electives. ing potential approaches to the problem, by The core curriculum, designed to provide an Thursday they had built a demo of the website integrated perspective on energy and associated they used to aggregate data and on Thursday environmental challenges, includes Fundamen- evening the site went live. Within two days, tals of Energy in Buildings from the Depart- 5000 people formally joined the team’s net- ment of Architecture, featuring creative design work and by 6:52PM on Saturday—only 8 hours projects addressing such issues as energy con- Obama/One People, an example The School of Architecture + Planning is one (Top and Bottom Right) A team from the Media Lab’s Human Dynamics and 52 minutes after the contest began—the servation, thermal comfort, heat transfer within of the type of analysis and of three schools at MIT taking part in a global The contest, sponsored by the Research Group recently scored a $40K prize team had located all ten balloons. buildings and thermodynamic performance. visualization of real time Defense Advanced Research ‘What was most rewarding about this was infor- mation that will be a part of collaboration with the National Research Foun- Projects Agency, challenged par- in a social networking contest sponsored by the The ten-subject core is complemented by a The Future of Urban Mobility dation of Singapore to develop new models and ticipants to use social media to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. how we demonstrated the enormous potential customized program of electives to prepare stu- research project. The World tools for the planning, design and operation of locate ten red weather balloons The tools they developed to win the contest of human networking,’ says Toshiba Professor dents to deal with the full range of technical, illustrates the pilgrimage of future urban transportation. Participants in the placed at undisclosed locations could turn out to be important in large-scale Alex (Sandy) Pentland, who heads the Human political and economic issues that surround people coming from all over the five-year project include Carlo Ratti and Chris across the . collective problem solving such as finding a Dynamics group. ‘It was great that we won the U.S. and the world by repre- energy-related decisions. Electives from SA+P senting the variations in call Zegras from the Department of Urban Studies missing child, spreading information about a contest, but more significantly, this exercise include Introduction to Building Technology from activity as flows of people move and Planning. product safety recall or mobilizing rescue efforts showed how building the proper incentives into the Department of Architecture and, from the to Washington DC to celebrate At the heart of the project is SimMobility— during natural disasters such as earthquakes a viral collaboration can quickly harness a Department of Urban Studies and Planning, President Obama, and then a simulation platform with an integrated model or tsunamis. large population to work together to address Politics of Energy and the Environment; Energy leave the capital to go back to broad societal needs. It has helped us better their states and countries. of human and commercial activities, land use, Staged to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Policy for a Sustainable Future; Infrastructure energy use, transportation and environmental ARPANet, the precursor to the Internet, the understand how information spreads and why in Crisis—Energy and Security Challenges; and impacts—linked with a range of networked contest challenged participants to use social people cooperate.’ Enabling an Energy-Efficient Society. computing and mobility innovations. Research- media to locate ten red weather balloons more: sap.mit.edu/plan The program is being guided and developed ers plan to use the data generated by these placed at undisclosed locations across the United by the Energy Education Task Force, which devices, and a range of new tools that harness States. From a field of more than 4000 teams, includes Amy Glasmeier, Head of Urban Stud- real-time information and management sys- the MIT winners included graduate students ies and Planning, Marilyne Andersen, Assistant tems, to design and evaluate new mobility solu- Anmol Madan, Wei Pan and Galen Pickard Photos: of DARPA Courtesy Professor of Architecture, and Kathy Araujo, tions for urban settings. along with postdoctoral fellows Manuel Cebrian a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban The modeling initiative is akin to a new proj- and Riley Crane. Studies and Planning. ect recently funded by the MIT Energy Initiative The crux of the team’s approach was the more: sap.mit.edu/plan on reducing urban energy consumption. Led by incentive structure it designed, a way of aligning Ratti and Zegras, working with Moshe Ben- the interests of participating individuals with Image: of Courtesy Atelier Feichang Jianzhu Yung Ho Chang’s Shanghai Corpo- Akiva of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the interests of the group. Whoever provided rate Pavilion at the World Expo the project aims to develop an integrated model correct coordinates for one of the balloons got 2010 demonstrates some creative of land use, transportation and energy use that $2K; whoever invited that person to join the net- energy-saving technologies. The will enable evaluation of a range of policies and work got $1K; whoever invited that person got facade is fashioned from plastic tubes made from reclaimed projects for reducing energy consumption in $500, and so on. No matter how long the chains compact discs that can be easily metropolitan areas. The approach will allow the got, the total payment for all ten balloons never recycled after the Expo closes, development of a new suite of performance met- quite reached $40K, and whatever was left over and rainwater is collected and rics that will enable much more effective deci- went to charity. In addition to the monetary turned to mist to purify the air sion making in urban settings. rewards, the system also allowed participants and create a comfortable climate. In combination with LED lights, more: sap.mit.edu/plan to see their direct impact on the network. the mist-making system can also modify the building’s appearance. Image: Sabrina Kleinenhammans (SMArchS’09)

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In March, the School of Architecture + Plan- In the new building, Maki went to great in Art, Culture and Technology and the shared The Dazzling Designers (A) ning officially dedicated its new Media Lab lengths to carry on that tradition. The motif for digital fabrication lab—followed by the second The crown of the building was devel- A major figure in Japanese oped to give the building an iconic Complex, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning the building came from The Cube, the lower- layer, levels 2-5, occupied by the Media Lab. architecture since the late 1950s, profile; in a nod to the Greek roots architect Fumihiko Maki and described by Bos- level double-high lab in the Media Lab’s exist- The center of the second layer is the atrium Fumihiko Maki is recognized not of Nicholas Negroponte, director ton Globe critic Robert Campbell, with slight ing home—a big wide-open space with offices on the third floor, the very heart of the building, only for his architecture and urban of the Media Lab when the building exaggeration—or perhaps no exaggeration at surrounding it on the floor and on the mezzanine with labs and lounges overlooking it; it provides design work but also for his contri- was commissioned, the designers all—as ‘the world’s most exquisite building’. level—which has proved to be a perfect space a central space for displaying the Media Lab’s butions to architectural theory. thought of it as the Acropolis. His work is renowned for fusing Located on the corner of Amherst and Ames for working collaboratively. many inventions and also offers dramatic views elements of eastern and western (B) Streets on MIT’s east campus, the new building Accordingly, most of the labs in the new to the entry level. The third level is the top culture in buildings that harmonize The building was designed to abound with opportunities for social inter- is adjacent to and carefully integrated with the building are also double-height and surrounded floor, one of a kind on theMIT campus, with with the natural and the urban action; only 53% of the square footage Media Lab’s existing home in the Wiesner with offices. They are also vertically staggered function rooms and a lecture hall, a roof ter- environment, juxtaposing the age- old qualities of his native country is assignable, the rest is designated Building—designed in 1985 by alumnus I.M. such that the upper level of one shares a floor race and commanding views of the river and with contemporary construction as shared space. Pei (BArch’40), also a Pritzker Prize winner. with the first level of another—so each lab the Boston skyline. methods and materials. (C) Together, the two landmark buildings create an shares common space with two others—greatly Together with the Weisner Building, the com- Working with Maki’s firm as As a student, Maki attended a roof- exceptional environment for learning, creativity facilitating the collective spirit of the place. The plex houses a wide array of innovative work in executive architects on the Media top reception at 100 Memorial and collaboration and provide a prominent floor levels of the new building are also matched media, art and technology, building on synergies Lab Complex was Boston’s Leers Drive and was dazzled by the skyline Weinzapfel Associates, designers of home for a unique array of efforts ranging from to the existing building, further promoting inter- among the building’s tenants. In addition to the view; finally, now 50 years later, to the award-winning renovations design a nearby building that would smart prostheses and robots to popular culture connection among the lab’s many activities. Media Lab, the Media Arts and Sciences Pro- to SA+P’s infrastructure on MIT’s itself command that view was a and cutting-edge art. The building’s transparency contributes still gram and the new Program in Art, Culture and main campus and recipients particular treat for him. The challenge in augmenting the Wiesner more to that collaborative ethic. Most of the Technology, the occupants include the Jerome of the 2007 Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects. (D) Building was to increase its size without alter- walls are glass, offering views in all directions, so Lemelson Center for Inventive Thinking, the The award is the AIA’s highest The building was designed to be ing its dynamics. From the beginning, the found- one can see people at work all around, as well Okawa Center for Future Children and the Rita honor, recognizing a practice that more transparent than any other MIT (B) ers of the Media Lab envisioned it as a place as the products of their work. And of course the P. and Joseph B. Scheller Teacher Education has consistently produced distin- buildings; according to Negroponte, (C) for collaborative creativity and those who have building is also transparent from the street, Program. Also sharing the space are the Com- guished architecture for at least the maximum amount of enclosure ten years; it was the first time the allowed would be floor-to-ceiling worked there in the last 25 years agree that it revealing all that activity to the outside world. parative Media Studies Program, the Center award had ever gone to a woman- glass and, emphatically, there would fosters an intellectual cross-fertilization not cus- There is no other building on campus that so for Future Civic Media, the Center for Future owned firm. be no curtains. tomarily found in an academic environment. invites passersby to read the life inside. Banking, the Center for Future Storytelling and (E) At night the whole building glows. the Center for Bits and Atoms. For energy reasons, local codes There are three layers in the building. First, allow a building only 50% transpar- there is the ground floor with its lofty atrium and ency, so Maki chose to filter the light open gallery spaces—home to the new Program through elegant aluminum screens. Where there are no screens, the glass itself is printed with a subtle pattern of translucent dots to filter the light.

(Photos: Andy Ryan) THE MAKING OF MAKI’S NEW BUILDING A CONFERENCE WITH THE CREATORS

(Bottom Left) On Saturday March 6, the School of Architec- everything would fit together, especially given The view, filtered through fritted ture + Planning hosted a conference to celebrate the intricacy and finesse required to deal with glass, has a pointillist feel like a Seurat painting. The only colors the opening of the new Media Lab Complex, precision 1 in the building—the red, blue designed by Fumihiko Maki in association with 16” tolerances. and yellow stairs—are drawn Leers Weinzapfel of Boston. Maki and members In the Japanese tradition, Maki worked with from Mondrian. of his design and construction teams convened contractors and subcontractors during design (Bottom Right) to discuss the conception and design of the to ensure constructability and many full-scale An exhibit about the new Media building, along with leaders of the Media Lab models of details were built to do performance Lab Complex and other new Maki and Dean Adèle Naudé Santos, in front of an testing, the team of six subcontractors all work- works is on display in the new overflow crowd of about 400. Below, some of ing together to learn how best to sequence the building’s lobby gallery through October 6, all day every day. the information that emerged from that event: work and how to work together to achieve the desired results. MIT knew from the get-go that they wanted Ultimately, a 10’x10’x10’ full-scale model Maki to design the building. There was no com- was constructed of all the components—it didn’t petition, no string of interviews. Bill Mitchell, model any actual part of the building but who was dean of SA+P at the time and acting included all the details that would be encoun- as architectural advisor to MIT president Charles tered in the entire structure. It was like a warm- Vest, went directly to Maki and asked if he’d do up before the Big Game, said Alan Steinberg, it—perhaps, Maki surmised, because the site project executive for the general contractor, was so tight and the vision so large they figured BOND. Everyone, he said, at all levels of the only a Japanese designer would be able to effort, took great pride in what they were manage it. doing and triumphantly brought the building in The program for the building, rather than on time and under budget. (A remarkable the customary phonebook-sized tome, was lim- achievement, quipped Santos, that will likely ited to a single sheet of 8½” x 11” paper, sim- never happen again.) ply listing the allocations of square footage for The result, according to Mitch Resnick, head the building’s basic functions—research; com- of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group, is exactly munication and sponsor relations; event/dining/ what he’d hoped for: the same playful, kinder- café; and building support. It was, said Gary garten-like workspace his group had had in The Kamemoto, director of international projects at Cube. According to Dean Santos, the result is Maki’s firm, a very enlightened program from also a great delight. As she noted about the a very enlightened client. crowds at the open house the preceding day: The construction of the building was a Everyone was smiling. major challenge. Virtually every element in the more: sap.mit.edu/plan building was custom designed, and some were manufactured and assembled in different coun- tries, so there was no way to predict how

Photos: Judith M. Daniels/SA+P …OUT OF HERE: Where Practice Meets Pedagogy Eduardo Catalano, Alumnus Edward Linde, The Veterans Project An Exhibit Exploring Office 1917–2010 1942–2010 Wodiczko at the Institute of dA’s Design for Schools of Design Professor Emeritus and A Major Figure in Boston Real Contemporary Art/Boston Designer of Student Center Estate and Philanthropy

(Left) Image: Courtesy of the MIT Museum, (Right) Photo: Courtesy of the MIT Museum Photo: and Galerie Lelong, of the artist Courtesy For nearly five months this winter, the Institute Nader Tehrani, newly-appointed head of the Alumnus Edward H. Linde ’62, co-founder and of Contemporary Art/Boston presented a large- Department of Architecture (effective this CEO of Boston Properties Inc., one of the larg- scale video installation by Krzysztof Wodiczko July), has recently won two highly competitive est real estate investment trusts in the coun- focused on the experience of the current war in architectural competitions with his partner in try, died January 10 due to complications from Iraq. Based on his conversations with soldiers Office dA, Monica Ponce de Leon. The resulting pneumonia. He was 68. who have returned from Iraq, as well as with commissions, to design new campus facilities for A major figure in Boston real estate and phi- Iraqi civilians, the new work built on their schools of architecture, were central features in lanthropy, Linde was a member of the visiting memories to examine the chaos and confusion a spring exhibit at SA+P’s Wolk Gallery, Office committee for the Department of Urban Studies of war. dA: Building Pedagogies. and Planning from 1993 to 1997, serving as its Since 2008, Wodiczko has been exploring From a field of133 submissions, the Univer- chair from 1993 to 1995. He was also a mem- the experience of veterans in a number of differ- sity of Melbourne commissioned Office dA, with ber of the visiting committees for the School of ent works. The Veteran Vehicle Project (2008) local firm John Wardle Architects, to design MIT Professor Emeritus of Architecture Eduardo (Top Left) Architecture + Planning from 1990 to 1993 and and the War Veteran Vehicle (2009) used pro- a new landmark building for their Faculty of Catalano, who taught at MIT from 1956 to Detail, interior rendering, Juilliard for the Department of Civil and Environmental School of Music jections of soldiers’ words and recordings of Architecture, Building and Planning. In a simi- 1977 and designed the Institute’s Stratton Stu- Engineering from 1983 to 1989 and from 1990 In OUT OF HERE: The Veterans for the Performing Arts, New York. their testimonies to illustrate the complexity of lar competition, the University of Toronto com- dent Center, died January 28 in Cambridge. He to 1995. social reintegration after combat. In the Veter- Project, visitors found them- missioned a project to address the accelerated (Top Right) A term member of MIT’s Corporation from selves in Baghdad basement as a was 92. ans’ Flame (2009), a video of a flickering candle growth of programs and research in their John Catalano during his years at MIT. 1990 until 1995, Linde also served on the bomb exploded outside in the Prior to working at MIT, Catalano pioneered moved in sync with the sound of the veterans H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape In the words of alumnus Peter Development Committee, the Corporation Joint street, trying to see what was the architectural development of shell struc- Sugar (MArch’60), ‘He was the telling their stories. going on as the sounds of chaos and Design. In addition to those projects, Office tures, first seen in his own home, Raleigh House, best teacher anyone could have’. Advisory Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs engulfed them. The installment at Boston’s ICA presented dA is also overseeing the renovation of the built in 1954 and named ‘House of the Decade’ and the Corporation Screening Committee for the veterans’ experience from a different per- Hinman Building in the College of Architecture by House and Home Magazine. Nomination of Recent Graduates. spective. Wodiczko expanded the notion of the at Georgia Tech. Catalano’s other noted projects included Linde earned a degree in civil engineering word ‘veteran’ in this work, using the term to All these institutions demand that the rela- the of Music at Lincoln Center at MIT and then an MBA from Harvard Busi- refer to civilians as well as military personnel, a tionship of practice and pedagogy be revisited and in New York, created with ness School in 1964. With his longtime business subtle shift that expressed an attempt to re-think through the design of their buildings, essentially , the late dean of architecture partner, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, he established the roles of all parties impacted by armed con- as didactic instruments for the discipline. Using who recruited Catalano in the late 1950s. Boston Properties in 1970, launching a com- flicts, and of re-evaluating our concept of war. the design development of the three schools Catalano’s last project was an 18-ton steel and pany that now owns 146 properties in four And in place of recordings of the participants’ as focal points, the Wolk exhibit examined the aluminum sculpture of a flower known as major real estate markets—Boston, New York, voices, Wodiczko for the first time wove his roles played by design, pedagogy and building in Floralis Genérica, which he created in 2002; San Francisco and Washington DC. He led the conversations with medics, soldiers and refu- Office dA’s work. located on the United Nations Plaza in his native firm’s transition to a public company in 1997 gees into a narrative of collective memories. Concurrent with the Wolk exhibit, Office dA’s , the flower’s huge petals open in and acquired a roster of prominent proper- ‘ Of the commissions one could In addition to their stories, the participants work was also included in Contemplating the the morning and close at night. ties, from Boston’s Prudential Building to the shared with the artist video and audio of life dur- have the honor of being bestowed,’ Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Muse- ‘ Just as Ed Linde’s business Embarcadero Center in San Francisco and the Tehrani said, ‘[these are among] Catalano also designed the US embassies in ing wartime, from the daily broadcast of prayers um, on display this spring in New York, a 50th ventures shaped the Boston sky- General Motors Building in New York. the greatest—where questions of Buenos Aires and in Pretoria, South Africa, and and interactions with local children to the dis- anniversary installation featuring dream inter- line,’ said MIT President Susan A prominent philanthropic figure, Linde was pedagogy and design come into the Greensboro Guilford County Governmental Hockfield, ‘his charismatic leader- tinctive sound of Humvees in transit or of sniper direct contact, confluence and ventions in the central void of the building’s Center in . In New England, his ship and enlightened generosity inducted into the American Academy of Arts fire erupting. Combining all these elements, the friction.’ Pictured here, the John rotunda. defined the highest standard and Sciences in October 2009. He also served H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, projects included the Hampden County Hall of projected scenario reflected the physical and more: sap.mit.edu/plan of public citizenship. I will miss on the President’s Advisory Council on Regional Landscape and Design at the Justice in Springfield, the ’s psychological environment of combat, as well as his engaging intellect, his broad- Engagement at MIT. In October 2008, he and University of Toronto. Charlestown Branch, Eastgate student housing ranging curiosity and his joyful the fragmented way experiences are perceived Image: of Office dA Courtesy his wife Joyce, with the Linde Family Founda- at MIT and several office buildings in suburban commitment to strengthening the in distressing or uncertain situations. Boston. public institutions that turn a tion, pledged $25M to MIT—one of the largest city into a community.’ Krzysztof Wodiczko is known worldwide for Catalano first came to the US on scholarship pledges to undergraduate financial aid in the his- his large-scale video projections on landmark to study at the University of Pennsylvania and tory of the Institute. The gift publicly launched architecture and public monuments, and for his Harvard, and studied under modernist masters the Institute’s Campaign for Students, which more recent, interior projections. His politically- Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. He taught at includes undergraduate scholarships as a core charged works explore the relationship between North Carolina State University in the early 1950s priority along with graduate fellowships, educa- art, democracy, trauma and healing. and became head of the architecture depart- tion and student life. more: sap.mit.edu/plan ment. He is survived by his son and daughter. Linde is survived by his wife, two children and five grandchildren. more: sap.mit.edu/plan more: sap.mit.edu/plan

Photo: Courtesy of Boston Properties, Inc. THIS SPRING, SA+P ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF A NEW PROGRAM IN ART, CULTURE AND

TECHNOLOGY (ACT) FOCUSED ON ART AS A RESEARCH PRACTICE; THE PROGRAM WILL

DEVELOP METHODS FOR CRITICAL DESIGN INVESTIGATION AND EXPERIMENTATION, AS

WELL AS MODELS OF COLLABORATION IN CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT. AA NEWNEW PRPROGRAM IN ART,ART, CULTCULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

COMBINING A RICH LEGACY OF ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EFFORTS

(D) (A) (B) (C) Prominently housed in the school’s recently on more complex and longer-term projects, The Visual Arts Program was established in (A) opened Media Lab Complex and the adjacent moving away from a studio culture into the 1989 under Dean John de Monchaux to explore Detail from Power Structures, a project by Amber Frid-Jimenez Wiesner Building, the new program is the result larger MIT culture. It is our goal to cultivate the role of art in society through performance, exploring hierarchical structures of a merger between the Visual Arts Program, the potential of partnerships between science sound and video, photography and design, as well that underlie linguistic, political and an academic unit begun in 1989 offering gradu- and art as a creative and innovative force.’ as through experimental media and new genres. global networks. (Image: Courtesy ate and undergraduate classes, and the Center The new program is based on a strong belief The program’s first director, Ed Levine, reacti- of Amber Frid-Jimenez) for Advanced Visual Studies, a research pro- in the social role of art and in artistic leader- vated the highly selective two-year program (B) gram in visual arts for artists, engineers and ship as a vital force for transformative critical leading to a Master of Science in Visual Studies. From Ports and Ships by Andrea scientists, established in 1967. reflection. The Visual Arts Program offered—and ACT Frank, a photography project exploring how globalization and ‘We see the visual arts as an essential com- The program also continues the legacy of continues to offer—an array of introductory and modern shipping have changed ponent of our offerings,’ says Dean Adèle Naudé Gyorgy Kepes, who originated the Center for advanced subjects for the general student popu- ancient ports, how all worldwide Santos. ‘The creation of this new program, Advanced Visual Studies more than 40 years ago lation at MIT. Courses are taught by renowned ports adapt to the growing combining the efforts of two historic endeavors, to encourage the use of new technology as an practicing artists working in an international requirements of volume and speed, reflects our commitment to the growing impor- artistic medium and to facilitate the interaction arena, including Joan Jonas, Antoni Muntadas, and the subsequent impact on the environment. (Photo: Andrea Frank) tance of the visual arts at MIT. of artists with scientists, engineers and industry. Gediminas Urbonas and Krzysztof Wodiczko. ‘In addition to giving the arts a higher pro- When Otto Piene succeeded Kepes as director The program’s full-time faculty is supple- (C) From Spaces, Sites and Situations, file on campus and in the city,’ she continues, in 1974, he built upon the Center’s commitment mented every year with four to five visiting a solo show in Spain by Antoni ‘the program’s signal position in our new build- to ‘art on a civic scale’, initiating exhibitions and professors, artists and lecturers whose classes Muntadas investigating the ing will put its faculty, students and research- public events that were often collectively pro- reflect the program’s interest in the intersec- standardized spaces of everyday ers in daily contact with their counterparts at duced. Since 2004, the Center has been directed tion of time-based media, new technology and life—interchangeable, uniden- the Media Lab, and at the many other centers by Krzysztof Wodiczko, known around the world sound. A cross-disciplinary lecture series held tifiable, seemingly designed by the same global firms. (Photo: and programs in the complex, enhancing every- for his large-scale slide and video projections every semester has brought together prominent Antoni Muntadas) one’s efforts.’ on architectural facades and monuments. speakers from the arts and other related fields. Under the leadership of curator and Associate In recent years, the Center for Advanced (D) From Villa Lituania, a multi-layered Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the Visual Visual Studies has brought some of the most history of the pre-war Lithuanian Arts Program since 2005, the new program will important names in the world of contemporary embassy in Rome and its current partner undergraduates, graduates, fellows and art to MIT, offering student assistants hands- status, by Gediminas Urbonas faculty in thematic clusters at the intersection on art-making opportunities and taking part in and his partner Nomeda Urbonas; the project represented Lithuania of art, culture, science and technology. public forums on emerging issues related to con- at the 2007 Venice Biennale. (Photo: ‘The Media Lab is famous for working in temporary art and society in different parts of Courtesy of Gediminas Urbonas) thematic clusters of that sort,’ says Bauer, ‘and the globe. more and more, we are moving in that direc- Currently, ACT is launching an effort to tion too. We will be working across disciplines archive the work done at the Center over the last 40+ years, a body of work that represents a substantial share of the history of the art and technology movement. Joan Jonas Awarded Creating Affordable Gyorgy Kepes Prize Space for Artists One of Many Distinctive An SA+P Initiative in Urban Honors this Season Planning and Development

(Left) Photo: Copyright Paula Court, courtesy of Performa, (Right) Photo: Lynn Davis The Department of Urban Studies and Planning, in partnership with Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), has launched a new pro- gram of research, awards and learning to fos- ter the creation of accessible artist space in communities across the US. Funded through a collaboration between the MetLife Foundation and the Ford Founda- tion, the Space for Change program seeks to identify projects that provide affordable space for artists and that contribute to community revitalization and sustainability through artist programming and active engagement. Joan Jonas has been awarded the 2010 Gyorgy (Top Left) The program is rooted in the recognition Kepes Fellowship Prize by the MIT Council for In Reading Dante, Jonas draws inspiration from Dante’s that artistic practice often requires unusual the Arts, given annually to a member of the fourteenth-century Divine working and living space and that access to community who has demonstrated excellence Comedy, borrowing small frag- affordable space remains a key challenge for in the creative arts—architecture, visual and ments of the text and greatly many artists. This remains true even while performing arts, and writing. reinterpreting the story through research points to such positive impacts of art- The award comes on the heels of a number performance, sound, drawings, video and installation. ist space development projects as increased of other recent honors this season: last fall, employment opportunities and improved youth Jonas was presented with a Lifetime Achieve- (Top Right) Long embraced by the European development programs for residents. ment Award from the Guggenheim Museum for art establishment, Jonas received Last fall, to promote and reward best prac- her extraordinary contributions to the field of newfound acclaim in the US with tices in the development of artist spaces that contemporary art; in December she was named a major retrospective at the yield benefits for both artists and their com- a 2009 USA Friends Fellow by United States Queens Museum of Art in 2003 munities, the Space for Change program initi- Artists; and this spring her work was on display and recently presented her multimedia installation Reading ated the MetLife Innovative Space Awards, a in three simultaneous exhibits in New York. Dante (2008) at the Venice competitive national funding program with A professor in SA+P’s Visual Arts Program Biennale to much critical acclaim. unrestricted awards ranging from $10K to $50K, since 1998, Jonas has established herself, over accompanied by value-added support such as the course of four decades, as a pioneering technical assistance and other learning activi- force in the development of contemporary art ties. Applicant entries for the contest were col- in genres ranging from performance and video lected in the Artists Space Database, a nation- to conceptual art and theater, a field of work al resource that aims to encourage the that also includes drawing, film, installation, replication of model projects and policies. sculpture and photography. Susan Silberberg-Robinson, Lecturer in The Kepes Prize was established in 1982 by Urban Design and Planning and Associate the MIT Council for the Arts, a volunteer orga- Director of the Innovative Space Awards, aims nization of alumni and friends, to encourage to develop a research program around afford- and celebrate individuals whose creative work able artists space and positive community reflects the vision and values of Gyorgy Kepes, impacts. founder of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual more: sap.mit.edu/plan Studies (CAVS). The $50K grand prizewinner in This is the tenth time the Kepes Prize has the Innovative Space Awards was the Curley School in Ajo AZ; gone to a member of SA+P: previous recipients spread out over a seven-acre were CAVS directors Kryzysztof Wodiczko campus, the project includes an (2004) and Otto Piene (1992); professors of auditorium with an indoor/ media arts and sciences Stephen Benton outdoor stage, a retail gallery, (1997) and Glorianna Davenport (1990); Assis- a business incubator, a computer lab, shared workspace, class- tant Professor of Architecture Wellington Reit- rooms, meeting rooms and offices. er (1993); and CAVS Fellows Christopher Jan- Programs include business ney (1986), Keiko Prince (1985), Bernd Kracke planning for artists and access to (1983) and Robert Rosinsky (1983). capital though matched savings accounts and micro loans. more: sap.mit.edu/plan Peter C. Sugar, MArch’60 MArch’85 Jeffrey LeeSchantz, AIA, Architecture Pollak,Martha PhD’85, MCP’85 Manuel Edgardo Orellana,Amaya Duhee LeeBSAD’85 Mark Kaplan, MArch’85 P.Robert Huefner, MCP’60 Richard Dattner, FAIA, BArch’60 MCP’85 Felicia Foo Canto), SMArchS’85, Mitsy Canto-Jacobs(akaMaria David Bondelevitch, BSAD’85 The Respondents Hockey practice. it to ning from design studio to make Varsity Duhee Lee: experience inSA+P? 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DATEBOOK JUNE 7 THROUGH JULY 30 volumes and multimedia components a model, along with smaller MIT/CRE Professional Develop- illustrating the Encylopedie’s signif- displays detailing six other current SUMMER 2010 ment Institute, a series of icance. Monday through Thursday, works by architect Fumihiko seventeen 1- to 2-day classes in 10AM–4PM. Maihaugen Gallery, Maki. All day every day. E14 Lobby real estate finance, development, Building 14N, Room 130. Gallery, corner of Amherst and sustainability, business and Ames Street. leadership. MIT Center for Real THROUGH JULY 30 Estate. For more information: Delight in Greener Daylight: A web.mit.edu/cre. Class Perspective on Facade For more information and more Renovation, an exhibit of student events, visit our online calendar at THROUGH JULY 3 work from Marilyne Andersen’s sap.mit.edu/calendar. Technology and Enlightenment: Daylighting class featuring models, The Mechanical Arts in Diderot’s data analyses, simulations, video Stories in PLAN can usually be Encyclopedie, an exhibit co-curated and audio that illustrate how found in greater detail online by Kristel Smentek exploring one challenging and inspiring it can be at sap.mit.edu/plan, along with of the most important publications to answer a seemingly simple archives of previous issues. of the eighteenth century, Diderot’s question: ‘What is good daylight- Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire ing?’ Weekdays, 9AM–5PM. Wolk (Cover) raisonne des sciences, des arts et Gallery, Building 7, Room 338. SA+P’s new Media Lab Complex des métiers, which placed equal designed by Pritzker Prize importance on the manual trades as THROUGH OCTOBER 6 winner Fumihiko Maki; at night, on the arts and sciences; featuring Making Architecture, an exhibit the whole building glows. (Photo: images from the original folio on the process of conceiving, Andy Ryan) designing and realizing SA+P’s new Media Lab Complex, featuring sketches, drawings, renderings, photos, construction documents and