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Unblocked
Last Friday architecture students ventured deep into MIT’s campus: down the infinite corridor to Hayden Library! It was a big change of scene from the typical one-minute walk between studio and La Verde’s, but food, fresh air, and an installation by two of our classmates beckoned. The installation, Unblocked, is a project by Evelyn Ting and Shiyu Wei, […]
Robots at the BSA!
Last Wednesday the Boston Society of Architects hosted the opening for their new exhibit, Volumetric Robotics, featuring work from a workshop at the MIT Department of Architecture taught by Brandon Clifford. The course explored the tradition of volumetric construction in ancient civilizations, a tradition lost in the economical veneer cladding typical today. The product is a collection of […]
Post-Sustainability Talk at the MFA
Two weeks ago I made it across the river for a talk at the MFA by Mitchell Joachim, an MIT SA&P grad who, according to Rolling Stone, is changing America. Mitchell is co-founder of the non-profit design and research group Terreform One, based in Brooklyn. His talk focused on a number of projects in ecological […]
Open Studio: Masonry House
Hi everyone, Please join us for the next Open Studio, which will be: The Masonry House Studio! This will take place next Thursday, March 6th with Brandon Clifford and Yung Ho Chang in Options Studio 5-414. We have previously been working on developing an appreciation and a notion of craft towards the Masonry tradition, or as […]
IAP in Action
While some people are off having international adventures this IAP, January here in Cambridge has been just as packed with activity. A sample of some of the things happening at the School of Architecture and Planning this month: First year M.Arch students present three weeks of thermoform research and design (http://mitthermo.tumblr.com/): A team of Masters […]
Playing with Plastic
First-year students are staying warm and busy over IAP this January with a three-week fabrication course focused on thermoforming plastics. We’ve been divided into two teams to design and build installations for the spring open house out of thermoformed plastic and a structural frame material. The course is an opportunity to become acquainted with the […]
INTERVIEW: Section Cut
This week, I’m interviewing my friends over at Section Cut, an online design resource curated by young professionals. Listen in! Q: What is Section Cut? There are a few dimensions of S|C but, primarily, we’re a collection of highly curated design resources that design students and professionals can trust, organized by categories and filters. Our […]
Thesis Notebook: Air Supply Systems
As I’m researching on more things for my thesis (looking at the agency of air in the context of polluted environment), I’ve stumbled across a few interesting facts. One thing I did last week was to look at ways clean air is supplied or generated under different conditions. I decided to look at different system, […]
RE-CONFIGURATION: Phone Bloks and Inaqui Carnicero
In case you missed it, this past Friday as a part of our architecture design lecture series we had Spanish architect Inaqui Carnicero (of Pitch House fame) in the AVT. We actually had a lot of amazing lectures this week- I also especially enjoyed Francine Houben of Mecanoo and Landscape Architect/Planner Fadi Masoud. Inaqui introduced […]
GOOGLE STREET VIEW: A New American Picture
A lot is made of the way that architects are educated. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve heard some version of: “architectural thinking can be applied to any problem.” As I’ve wrestled with this idea over the years – at times feeling that it diminishes other professions or overstates our capacity – […]
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