Monday, September 6, 2010

MIT DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ~ FALL 2010 DEPARTMENT, DISCIPLINE and PROGRAM GROUP LECTURES




All events -- except for ACT talks -- will be Room 7-431 (soon to be known as the "former AVT")


MIT DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ~ FALL 2010

DEPARTMENT, DISCIPLINE and PROGRAM GROUP LECTURES



ACT: MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (lhickler@mit.edu, 617-324-6289)

AD: Architectural Design (617-253-7791)

AKPIA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (jlar@mit.edu. 617-253-1400)

BT: Building Technology Program (kross@mit.edu, 617-253-1876)

COMP: Computation (danielas@mit.edu, 617-253-7493)

DEPT: Department of Architecture Lecture Series (617-253-7791

HTC: History, Theory, and Criticism (brearley@mit.edu, 617-258-8439)



SEPTEMBER



ACT Monday, September 13, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

Elke Gaugele, Cultural anthropologist and Professor for Fashions & Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria

“Climate Changes in Science Fashion”



DEPT Thursday, September 16, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Marc Tsurumaki

Architect, LTL Architects, New York City

“Catalyzing Constraints: Recent Work of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis”



AD Friday, September 17, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Amanda Reeser and Ashley Schafer, Praxis Journal

Mark Pasnik and Chris Grimley: pinkcomma gallery, Boston

BOS “On Curating”



ACT Monday, September 20, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

Professor Regina Maria Moeller, Artist and professor, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“Com(ment)ic: Wondersuits, Fast Skin and Poison Ivy”



AD Friday, September 24, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

STAKES “Global Critical”

Alexander D’Hooghe, Yung Ho Chang, Hashim Sarkis, Kapil Gupta, Ralph Nelson, Xiangning Li



AKPIA Monday, September 27, 6:00 pm, Room 7-431


An Evening With...
Lecture Series

Chad Oppenheim, Architect,
Oppenheim Architecture + Design, Miami

“Adventures in Arabia and Beyond”



ACT Monday, September 27, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

Professor Laura Anderson Barbata, Artist and professor, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México

“21st Century Living in the Amazon: In The Order of Chaos”



DEPT Wednesday, September 29, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Jürgen Mayer

Architect, J. Mayer H., Berlin

“pre.text/vor.wand – patterns of speculation"



DEPT Thursday, September 30, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner

Architects, Urban Think Tank, Caracas and Zurich

“Curriculum for a Crowded City”


OCTOBER



BT Monday, October 4, 12:30-2:00, Room 7-431

Martha VanGeem, CTL Group

“High Performance Green Buildings”



ACT Monday, October 4, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

Bulbo, media collective, Tijuana, Mexico

“Tierra Brillante”



HTC Tuesday, October 5, 6:30-8:00 pm, Room 7-431

HTC Forum: Clapperton Mavhunga

Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

“Mobility as Archive for Innovation: Developing a Video-Photographic Method of Excavating It”



DEPT Friday, October 8, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Architect, Foreign Office Architects, London

“Envelopes”



COMP Friday, October 15, 12:30-2:00

Phillip Anzalone, AIA, Principal, Atelier Architecture 64

Director, Building Technology Sequence / Director, Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

Title: "Epistemological Constructions"



AD Friday, October 15, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Rodolphe el-Khoury, Architect, Khoury Levit Fong, Toronto

IN PROGRESS “Designing with Scent”



ACT Monday, October 18, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

Dava Newman, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT

“Second Skin Bio-Suit”



DEPT Thursday, October 21, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Roisin Heneghan + Shih-Fu Peng

Architects, Heneghan Peng, Dublin

“Transparency”



ACT SPECIAL EVENT Friday, October 22, 4:00-10:00 pm, Bartos Theater and The Cube (E15-Lower Level)

Sound Shapes and Ear Dances: A Tribute to Maryanne Amacher

This event honors Maryanne Amacher, a pioneering sound artist and former MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies fellow on the first anniversary of her death. Lecture by Anne Hilde Neset, The Wire magazine, London. Roundtable discussion with Neset, and electroacoustic composers Florian Hecker, Vienna; Kevin Drumm, Chicago; Jessica Rylan Piper, Los Angeles. Sonic Presentations by Florian Hecker, Kevin Drumm, Jessica Rylan Piper.

http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2010/0813_act_amacher.html



AD Friday, October 22, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

TRICKS “MIT Students Present”

Organized by Architecture Student Council



BT Monday, October 25, 12:30-2:00, Room 7-431

Thomas Schielke

“LEDs and Sustainability in Labs and Architecture: Synergy or Lighting Rivals?”



AKPIA Monday, October 25, 6:00 pm, Room 7-431


An Evening With...
Lecture Series

Saleema Waraich,
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow

“Mughal Monuments and the Politics of Memory”



ACT Monday, October 25, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

To be announced



HTC Tuesday, October 26, 6:30-8 pm, Room 7-431

HTC Forum: Daniel A. Barber, Environmental Fellow, Center for the Environment and GSD, Harvard University

“The World Solar Energy Project: Maria Telkes after the Dover Sun House”



SPECIAL DEPT Wednesday, October 27, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Sponsored by The MIT Women’s League

Robert Campbell, Author and Architecture Critic, Boston Globe

Topic: Buildings/Architecture v Community



DEPT Thursday, October 28, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Philippe Rahm, Architect, Philippe Rahm Architectes, Paris

“Meteorological Architecture”



COMP Friday, October 29, 12:30-2:00 pm

Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg

Co-Founders, Nervous System

“Title to be announced”



AD Friday, October 29, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Cristina Parreno, Architect, Madrid

IN PROGRESS “Urban Recycling: Two Projects”





NOVEMBER



ACT Monday, November 1, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

To be announced



DEPT Thursday, November 4, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Sharon Johnston, Architect, Johnston Marklee, Los Angeles

“Too Young to Reason, Too Grown Up to Dream”



COMP Friday, November 5, 12:30-2:00 pm

Edouard Din, Associate Professor, Tuskegee University

“Surface Symmetries”



AD Friday, November 5, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

MIT Department of Architecture Discipline Group Faculty

STAKES



AKPIA Monday, November 8, 6:00 pm, Room 7-431

An Evening With...
Lecture Series

Talinn Grigor,
Assistant Professor of Fine Art, Brandeis University

“Reviving the Invented: 
The Neo-Achaemenid from Parsi Bombay to Qajar Tehran”



ACT Monday, November 8, 7-9 pm, Bartos Theater (E15 Lower Level)

ACT Lecture Series: "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?"

Lauren Bon, artist and MIT alumna. Her Metabolic Studio is based in Los Angeles.

“Metabolic Studio”



COMP Friday, November 12, 12:30-2:00 pm

Neri Oxman, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT

MATERIALECOLOGY Design, Principal

"Mediated Matter”



AD Friday, November 12, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Sheila Kennedy, Architect, Kennedy Violich, Boston

Carlo Ratti, Director, MIT Senseable City Lab

BOS “On Activating”



BT Monday, November 15, 12:30-2:00, Room 7-431

Christoph Buxbaum

“Passivhaus Design”



HTC Tuesday, November 16, 6:30-8:00 pm, Room 7-431

HTC Forum: Juliet Koss, Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, Scripps College

“Monumental Snapshots of a Soviet Future”



DEPT Thursday, November 18, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Lisa Iwamoto, Architect, Iwamoto Scott, San Francisco

“Synthetics”



AD Friday, November 19, 6:30 pm, Room 7-431

Michael Meredith, Architect, MOS, Cambridge and New Haven

IN PROGRESS “MOS”



DECEMBER



No lectures scheduled at this time.

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