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Award Steering Committee
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2 0 1 3 AWARD STEERING COMMITTEE His Highness the Aga Khan, Chairman. Mohammad al-Asad is a Jordanian architect and architectural historian. He is the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Built Environment in Amman. Dr. al-Asad studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and history of architecture at Harvard University, before taking post-doctoral research positions at Harvard and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has taught at the University of Jordan, Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was the Alan K. and Leonarda Laing Distinguished Visiting Professor. He was also adjunct professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. al-Asad has published in both Arabic and English on the architecture of the Islamic world, in books and academic and professional journals. He is the author of Old Houses of Jordan: Amman 1920-1950 (1997) and Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East (2012); and co-author (with Ghazi Bisheh and Fawzi Zayadine) of The Umayyads: The Rise of Islamic Art (2000) and (with Sahel Al Hiyari and Álvaro Siza) Sahel Al Hiyari Projects (2005). He is the editor of Workplaces: The Transformation of Places of Production: Industrialization and the Built Environment in the Islamic World (2010), and co-editor (with Majd Musa) of Architectural Journalism and Criticism: Global Perspectives (2007) and Exploring the Built Environment (2007). Dr. al-Asad has been a member of the board of directors of organisations including the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts (part of the Royal Society for Fine Arts), the Jordan Museum, and the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies in Amman. -
Architecture Program Report for 2012 NAAB Visit for Continuing Accreditation
Harvard Graduate School of Design Department of Architecture Architecture Program Report for 2012 NAAB Visit for Continuing Accreditation Master of Architecture Undergraduate degree outside of Architecture + 105 graduate credit hours Related pre-professional degree + 75 graduate credit hours Year of the Previous Visit: 2006 Current Term of Accreditation: At the July 2006 meeting of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), the board reviewed the Visiting Team Report for the Harvard University Department of Architecture. As a result, the professional architecture program: Master of Architecture was formally granted a six-year term of accreditation. The accreditation term is effective January 1, 2006. The program is scheduled for its next accreditation visit in 2012. Submitted to: The National Architectural Accrediting Board Date: 14 September 2011 Harvard Graduate School of Design Architecture Program Report September 2011 Program Administrator: Jen Swartout Phone: 617.496.1234 Email: [email protected] Chief administrator for the academic unit in which the program is located (e.g., dean or department chair): Preston Scott Cohen, Chair, Department of Architecture Phone: 617.496.5826 Email: [email protected] Chief Academic Officer of the Institution: Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean Phone: 617.495.4364 Email: [email protected] President of the Institution: Drew Faust Phone: 617.495.1502 Email: [email protected] Individual submitting the Architecture Program Report: Mark Mulligan, Director, Master in Architecture Degree Program Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture Phone: 617.496.4412 Email: [email protected] Name of individual to whom questions should be directed: Jen Swartout, Program Coordinator Phone: 617.496.1234 Email: [email protected] 2 Harvard Graduate School of Design Architecture Program Report September 2011 Table of Contents Section Page Part One. -
International Symposium on Ecological Urbanism
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ECOLOGICAL URBANISM Centro Cultural São Paulo – Rua Vergueiro, 1.000 – Paraíso, São Paulo, SP. 9:00 – 9:30 Arrival and Registration 9:30 – 9:45 Welcome Jason Dyett, Harvard-DRCLAS Brazil Office 9:45 – 10:30 Keynote: Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now? Mohsen Mostafavi, Harvard Graduate School of Design 10:30 – 10:45 Presentation: Ecological Urbanism in Action Gareth Doherty, Harvard Graduate School of Design 10:45 – 12:00 Panel I: Anticipate Anticipation exists somewhere between making firm plans and making none at all. Ecological urbanism anticipates the life and form of cities of the present and the future. This panel will address strategies for city design that can adapt and respond to change over the long term. Issues of landscape architecture, urban planning and design, politics, economics, and aesthetics fall under the umbrella of this panel. Moderator: Charles Waldheim, Harvard Graduate School of Design Speakers: Alexandre Delijaicov, University of São Paulo Angelo Bucci, University of São Paulo Cecília Herzog, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Joana Carla Gonçalves, University of São Paulo Nelton Miguel Friedrich, Itaipú 12:00 – 1:30 Lunch break 1:30 – 2:45 Panel II: Mobilize This panel asks whether it is possible to accommodate citizens’ “rights to the city” while also guaranteeing that urban resources will be effectively utilized for the collective improvement and sustainability of the city as a whole. Panelists will consider the role that governing authorities, professionals, and citizens can play in achieving a more socially and environmentally just city, and reflect on how various constituencies can be “mobilized” to guarantee the production of an environmentally sound, equitable, and prosperous urbanism. -
Urban Design This Page Intentionally Left Blank Urban Design
Urban Design This page intentionally left blank Urban Design Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, Editors University of Minnesota Press | Minneapolis | London This book is a collaborative project between the University of Minnesota Press and Harvard Design Magazine. Most of the essays published here previously appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Peter G. Rowe, Dean, 1992–2004; Alan Altshuler, Dean, 2005–7; Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean since 2008. Thanks to coordinator Meghan Ryan for her work on Harvard Design Magazine. Every effort has been made to obtain permission to reproduce the illustrations in this book. If any acknowledgment has not been included, we encourage copyright holders to notify the publisher. Copyright 2009 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401- 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Urban design / Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-5638-7 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8166- 5639-4 (pb : alk. paper) 1. City planning. I. Krieger, Alex, 1951– II. Saunders, William S. III. Harvard Design Magazine. NA9040.U677 2009 711'.4—dc22 2008042230 Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. -
Conference Paper on Disability and Aging
Introduction The United Nations defines population aging as the process by which older individuals become a proportionally larger share of the total population. Population aging in the twentieth century was limited to developed countries. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, there are already more people living above age 65 globally compared to those under age five, which means population aging is in progress and will likely remain the future trend. Understanding the shift in the aging of the global population and its implications for economic, political, social and health policies, the World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated its World Health Day (WHD) theme for 2012 to population aging under the motto ‘good health adds life to years’. This was the theme of the address by the keynote speaker Dr. Jacob Kumaresan, the Executive Director of WHO New York, at the conference. The Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University, based on its mandate of promoting healthy and active aging research, hosted the day and half long conference ‘Population Aging and Urbanization – A Meeting of the Minds’ to commemorate WHD 2012. The conference was organized in collaboration with the WHO, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the MIT AgeLab, In her welcome message, the Director of the HNRCA, Dr. Simin Nikbin Meydani addressed the important work the center is conducting dedicated to population aging and invited future collaborators to work with HNRCA to support the work of WHO. The Provost and Senior Vice President ad Iterim of Tufts University, Dr.