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Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum, Fall 2003

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Abstract:: This semester students are asked to transform the Hereshoff Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, through processes of erasure and addition. Hereshoff Manufacturing was recognized as one of the premier builders of America's Cup racing boats between 1890's and 1930's. The studio however, is about more then the program. It is about land, water, and wind and the search for expressing materially and tectonically the relationships between these principle conditions. That is, where the land is primarily about stasis (docking, anchoring and referencing our locus), water's fluidity holds the latent promise of movement and freedom. Movement is activated by wind, allowing for negotiating the relationship between water and land.

Subject:: Arts
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

Ecuador Workshop, Fall 2006

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Abstract:: This is a project to assist in the design, drawing, modeling and hopefully constructing of a small Community Children’s Center near Guayaquil, Ecuador. For the last year, Nicki Lehrer, from MIT’s Aero/Astro Department, has been organizing efforts to build the project. The goal of the workshop is to provide her with a full fleshed out design for the community center so it can be built in the summer of 2007.

Subject:: Arts, Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions, Fall 2011

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Abstract:: A truly inter-disciplinary course, Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions reviews how law, economics, sociology, political science, and planning conceptualize urban land and property rights and uses cases to discuss what these different lenses illuminate and obscure. It also looks at how the social sciences might be informed by how design, cartography, and visual studies conceptualize space's physicality. This year's topics include land trusts for affordable housing, mixed-use in public space, and critical cartography.

Subject:: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Policy and Advocacy , Green Building and Design , Business & Economics
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

Social Theory and the City, Fall 2005

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Abstract:: This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city's architecture and spaces. It is grounded in classic or foundational writings about the city addressing such topics as the public realm and public space, impersonality, crowds and density, surveillance and civility, imprinting time on space, spatial justice, and the segregation of difference. The aim of the course is to generate new ideas about the city by connecting the social and the physical, using Boston as a visual laboratory. Students are required to present a term paper mediating what is read with what has been observed.

Subject:: Social Sciences
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

Urban Design, Fall 2003

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Abstract:: For many years, Cambridge, MA, as host to two major research universities, has been the scene of debates as to how best to meet the competing expectations of different stakeholders. Where there has been success, it has frequently been the result, at least in part, of inventive urban design proposals and the design and implementation of new institutional arrangements to accomplish those proposals. Where there has been failure it has often been explained by the inability - or unwillingness - of one stakeholder to accept and accommodate the expectations of another. The two most recent fall Urban Design Studios have examined these issues at a larger scale. In 2001 we looked at the possible patterns for growth and change in Cambridge, UK, as triggered by the plans of Cambridge University. And in 2002 we looked at these same issues along the length of the MIT 'frontier' in Cambridge, MA as they related to the development of MIT and the biotech research industry. In the fall 2003 Urban Design Studio we propose to focus in on an area adjacent to Cambridgeport and the western end of the MIT campus, roughly centered on Fort Washington. Our goal is to discover the ways in which good urban form, an apt mix of activities, and effective institutional mechanisms might all be brought together in ways that respect shared expectations and reconcile competing expectations - perhaps in unexpected and adroit ways.

Subject:: Social Sciences
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

Urban Design Studio: Providence, Spring 2005

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Abstract:: The design of urban environments. Strategies for change in large areas of cities, to be developed over time, involving different actors. Fitting forms into natural, man-made, historical, and cultural contexts; enabling desirable activity patterns; conceptualizing built form; providing infrastructure and service systems; guiding the sensory character of development. Involves architecture and planning students in joint work; requires individual designs or design and planning guidelines.

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Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum, Fall 2003

Ecuador Workshop, Fall 2006

Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions, Fall 2011

Social Theory and the City, Fall 2005

Urban Design, Fall 2003

Urban Design Studio: Providence, Spring 2005

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Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum, Fall 2003

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Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions, Fall 2011

Social Theory and the City, Fall 2005

Urban Design, Fall 2003

Urban Design Studio: Providence, Spring 2005

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