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NEWS DIGEST of the MIT SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 PAID USA CAMBRIDGE, MA PERMIT NO MIT School of Architecture + Planning NON-PROFIT ORG. 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 7-231 US POSTAGE NEWS DIGEST OF THE MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 PAID USA CAMBRIDGE, MA PERMIT NO. 54016 DATEBOOK THROUGH OCTOBER 24 THROUGH DECEMBER 31 Stories in PLAN can usually My New Theater: Reading The MIT 150 Exhibition. be found in greater detail online FALL/WINTER 2011 Dante III. An exhibition of four A year-long exhibit highlighting at sap.mit.edu/plan, along with videos created by Professor 150 years of MIT history and archives of previous issues. Joan Jonas with music by Jason featuring an impressive array of Moran and David Lang. Media important milestones from SA+P. To change your address, or to be Lab Complex Lobby, E14, 75 10AM–5PM. MIT Museum, N51. removed from our mailing list, Amherst Street. please email [email protected] with FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE the heading ‘address change’ or OCTOBER 21–DECEMBER 31 LISTINGS ‘PLAN cancellation’. Otto Piene: Lichtballett. An Subscribe to weekly emails: exhibit of light-based sculptural (Cover) http://bit.ly/n5fmmM work by the director of SA+P’s Maxwell’s Dream: Painting with or text MITSAP to 22828 Center for Advanced Visual Studies Light, an installation from the from 1974-94. List Visual Arts Festival of Art, Science + Like SA+P on Facebook: Center, E15, 20 Ames Street. Technology that allowed visitors to www.facebook.com/sapmit play with a magnetic field to create THROUGH DECEMBER 30 patterns in light. (By Kaustuv De Follow SA+P on Twitter: Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg, twitter.com/mitsap Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan. graduate students in architecture) An exhibit of photos by Margaret (Photo: © Andy Ryan) Morton with introductory text by SA+P Professor Nasser Rabbat. M-F 9AM – 5PM, Wolk Gallery 7-338. (A) Amsterdam Alphabet. Gijs Adriaansens, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands). (B) The New ‘Non-Standard’, Jonathan Enns, Princeton University (US). (C) A Defensive Architecture, Nicholas Adam Szczepaniak, The University of Westminster (UK). When we opened our new Media Lab complex in March of 2010, we deliberately placed a range of related programs side by side to encourage interdisciplinary invention and creativity. The plan is working out just as intended, and this year the appointment of AN EXHIBIT OF WORLD’S 300 BEST several new leaders in those neighboring programs promises to enhance the synergies that have already begun. Most prominently, we have hired Joichi Ito as the new director of the Media Lab. A dynamic leader brimming with DESIGN THESES ideas and energy, Ito is a very unusual hire whose appointment has created a lot of international buzz, along with eager antici- pation for what he will bring to the Lab. ALONG WITH TEN INTER NATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE Another important new hire is Ethan Zuckerman as direc- tor of the Center for Civic Media, a joint program of the Media A major exhibit on view at MIT throughout the One group, for instance, proposed a canal that would run up the center of the island, Lab and the Comparative Media Studies Program in the School summer presented 300 of the world’s best the- sis projects in architecture, urban design and roughly parallel to Broadway: freight would of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Zuckerman and Ito landscape architecture, featuring entries from be moved from container ships in the port by have often collaborated in the past and their new proximity 72 countries and 29 American cities. smaller boats that would cross the harbor and Sponsored by Archiprix International, the travel up the canal to deliver goods directly opens up even more opportunity for productive partnership. biennial exhibit is the largest such presenta- to the city’s neighborhoods; the goods would Meanwhile, our Program in Art, Culture and Technology— tion in the world—more than 1400 universi- then be taken to their final destination by elec- ties were invited to participate this year—and tric carriages. newly located in the complex after years of relative exile on offers a rare opportunity for assessing current Another group presented ideas for new, north campus—has just recruited two extremely strong and trends in design education around the world temporary urban infrastructures that could and architecture in general. This year marks respond to the fast-changing needs of a city, interesting new artists for their faculty, and new leadership is the first time the exhibit has been held in the including balloons that could float new rental also being sought at the nearby List Visual Arts Center. United States. space in the airspace over the city when a Hosted by SA+P’s Platform for Permanent boom economy demands; the balloons could All of these new faculty are profiled in this issue (and at Modernity, a research program headed by deflate to provide homeless shelter on the greater length online) and I encourage you to acquaint yourself architecture professor Alexander D’Hooghe, streets during slower times. The catalogue of the thesis competition, with them. Their presence in the Media Lab Complex will infuse the exhibit was part of a two-week inter- national event that also featured intensive published in collaboration with 010 Publish- its famously fertile culture with new ideas, new energy and new five-day workshops for 100 of the students rep- ers and edited by Archiprix International Rot- ways of looking at old problems that should produce some excit- resented in the show, led by prominent design- terdam, features a representative selection of ers from leading architecture schools in the the projects submitted, including the nominees ing results. Watch this space for developments. United States. and prize winners, as well as favorites chosen The workshops focused on the future of by the participants themselves, along with per- architecture through a radical speculation sonal data on the projects’ designers. The com- about the future of New York City in 21st- plete collection of submissions can be viewed century terms—with no more skyscrapers, on the accompanying DVD. For a copy of the no more highways and a reconfiguration of book, contact 010 Publishers at www.010.nl. the waterfront edge. While the details of the MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN workshop proposals were less important than the conversations the project engendered and the relationships that were begun, the propos- (Photos: Judith M. Daniels/SA+P) M. Judith (Photos: als themselves were often fascinating. Still Rebuilding New Orleans SA+P Shares Top Honors in THE FESTIVAL’S GRAND FINALE SA+P’s Sustained Commitment Housing Competition Seeks to Extend Still Further Winning Teams Include Students TWO NIGHTS OF SURPRISE AND DELIGHT in Planning, Architecture and Real Estate (Photo: Courtesy of the City-to-City class) In New Orleans, students are Thirteen SA+P students from programs in Thousands of visitors crowded onto the MIT currently working with city architecture, urban planning and real estate campus and riverfront on two consecutive planners on a comprehensive zoning ordinance; on developing development were members of winning teams nights in May for the spectacular culmination design standards for nudging that captured top honors in the 2011 Afford- of MIT’s semester-long Festival of Art, Science growth in desired directions; and able Housing Development Competition. Since + Technology, a part of the Institute’s 150th on how to develop neighborhood the contest was established eleven years ago, anniversary celebration. activism to influence policy. SA+P has consistently been represented In the evenings from 7-10PM, the campus among the top winners, including representa- came alive with more than twenty illuminated tion on every first-place team. architectural installations and multi-media Sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank public artworks, all of them conceived, curated, of Boston—in conjunction with the Boston created and produced by students and faculty Society of Architects/AIA, Kevin P. Martin & from the School of Architecture + Planning—a Associates, Citizens’ Housing and Planning unique public showcase for the abundance of Association, ICON Architecture and Shepley talent among our ranks. In the years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged Bulfinch—the annual competition pairs teams The extravaganza kicked off on Saturday the Gulf Coast, SA+P’s Department of Urban of talented graduate students with affordable night with the inflation of Otto Piene’s dramat- Studies and Planning has been and continues housing organizations to develop proposals ic SKY Event, two massive, brightly lit stars to be one of the nation’s most active urban for housing in which at least 40% of the units that rose into the night sky over Killian Court, planning departments on the scene, and one of could be sold or rented to low-income house- and continued with such spectacles as a 3D the most effective. holds. This year was an especially tough com- video projection screen floating in the river; a Through involvement with studios, theses, petition with eight teams participating from dynamic lighting installation that told the story practica, projects, research and advocacy, our four different schools, an all-time record. of MIT’s past by projecting numbers and phras- students, faculty and alumni have provided The $10K first prize went to a proposal to es on buildings; and a 10,000-pixel display of assistance to community organizations, city create 24 affordable family and senior apart- LED lights on the Mass Ave Bridge, activated departments and neighborhoods with chal- ments, a multi-use learning center and a rede- by sensors that responded to the movement of lenges ranging from economic development to signed library on the site of the Fields Corner viewers and vehicles in the area.
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