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Infrastructure Conference 16 October 2009
The School of Architecture will host the conference Infrastructure and the Future: Assessing the Architect's Role on November 21, 2009. As the United States looks to invest in major new infrastructure projects throughout the country for the first time in decades, the role of architecture in this process is uncertain. Without Europe's strong central planning, different models for laying the framework for the future will be necessary. The conference will bring together prominent architects, historians, government officials, and public intellectuals to help navigate the future of infrastructure in the US, and to better understand its past.
Innovation 24 October 2009
The School of Architecture is a co-sponsor of an important interdisciplinary panel discussion on how business can innovate new products and services to build a more sustainable future, and how these same firms can communicate these new ideas. The event, hosted by the strategic communications firm of Solomon and McCown and the law firm of Gouston & Storrs. Rising in a Down Economy will be held Thursday, November 12, from 7:30 - 9:30 am in the North Atlantic Room of the Boston Harbor Hotel. Please RSVP to 617.933.5278, or SolomonMcCown
Lecturer Stephen Chung Recognized 1 October 2009
Let's all congratulate second year studio instructor and Boston architect Stephen Chung for his recent national recognition. Steve's work was cited as one of 6 designers in the country in Metropolitan Home magazine's annual listing of Rising Stars. At left is his own home in suburban Boston, composed of sliding bands of wood, painted wood, and mirrors.
NEA Mayor's Institute on City Design 11 September 2009
The School of Architecture will host a regional session of the Mayor's Institute on City Design, from October 7-9, 2009. The MICD is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and this session will convene design professionals, academics and mayors of Norwalk, CT; Niagara Falls, NY; Cranston, RI; Rutland, VT; Brockton, MA; Lewiston, ME; Nashua, NH; and Hempstead, NY for a two and one half day workshop.
For more information please see here.
Tenure-Track Search Announced 8 September 2009
The School of Architecture has begun an international search for a new Assistant Professor in Studio Architecture, with a focus on Landscape Urbanism. Please note the deadline for applications is December 15, 2009. Download the position advertisement .
Kiel Moe Wins 2009-10 ROME PRIZE! 17 April 2009
The School of Architecture is delighted to announce that Assistant Professor Kiel Moe has won the Rome Prize in Architecture for the year 2009-10. Moe will spend the entire year as a Fellow at The American Academy in Rome working on his subject, The Thermodynamic Figuration of Rome." This award is among the most prestigious in American Architecture. Only two are given each year. Moe's first book, Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), is already a critical text in the burgeoning sustainable architecture field, and his second book, "Thermally Active Surfaces," (forthcoming, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) promises to bring similar insight to the design for human comfort in an age of scarce energy resources.
Mark Baranski published in academic journal 10 March 2009
Part-Time Lecturer Mark Baranski, of Overland Capital Group, published a paper in Real Estate Economics based on his graduate thesis titled "100 Years of Commercial Real Estate Prices in Manhattan," w/ co-authors Cesarina Templeton and William C. Wheaton.
This paper is able to put together a data base of 86 repeat sales transactions for office properties in lower and mid town Manhattan spanning the years from 1899 through 1999. Using this very limited data base, decade-interval changes in real property prices are estimated - with varying degrees of precision. Our conclusions are two. First, adjusting for inflation, commercial office property values are 30% lower in 1999 than they were in 1899. Secondly, within any decade values often rise and fall by 20-50% in real terms. With these results, the long term historic return to New York commercial property must be mostly be comprised of yield with capital gains limited to general inflation. Other historical studies consistent with this conclusion are reviewed.
Bill Wheaton is a tenured professor in the Economics Dept at MIT, the founding principal of Torto/Wheaton Research, owned by CBRE. Cesarina Templeton of Overland Capital Group attended MIT and is co-author of the thesis.
Urban Gauge Planning Software Underway 8 January 2009
The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that new planning software to help facilitate the public approvals process is now in development. George Thrush and Research Associate Jie-Eun Hwang have begun to build a tool that will balance the disparate interests of local, regional, and financial players in development projects, and it will do so in "real time." See more at Urban Gauge.
"Ideas" Competition 5 December 2008
The New England Society of Architectural Historians, led by Adjuct Faculty member Milda Richardson, is sponsoring the Woburn Public Library Expansion "Ideas" Competition for this landmark building. The idea competition pertains to the expansion as well as the site itself. Amanda Lawrence, Assistant Professor, will be one of the judges. Following the competition, there will also be an exhibition of select entries at Adjunct Faculty member and pinkcomma director Chris Grimley's pinkcomma Gallery in Boston. More information about the competition can be found here.
David Gamble Earns 2008 Young Architects Award 1 December 2008
Photograph by Christian Phillips Photography
David Gamble, Adjunct Faculty member and Senior Associate at Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, has been awarded the 2008 Young Architects Award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The honor is given to professionals licensed 10 years or fewer who “have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to their profession early in their careers”. David was nominated by the local chapter (the Boston Society of Architects). He is one of ten individuals to be selected for the 2008 AIA national award. Young Architect Award recipients were honored at the 2008 AIA National Convention in Boston in May. More information on the award can be found at: www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0125/0125n_ya.cfm
New Faculty Search Announced 13 November 2008
Director George Thrush announced that The School of Architecture has begun an international search for a new Assistant Professor in Studio Architecture. This position is the fifth new spot in four years, and will mark a doubling of the size of the full-time, tenured and tenure-track faculty in that time. Download the position advertisement here
Kiel Moe wins research grant 2 June 2008
The Architecture of Thermally Active Surfaces
Kiel Moe was awarded one of ten 2008 AIA RFP Research Program Grants. The Grant Program provides seed funds for applied research projects that advance professional knowledge and practice. The awards are selected by a national panel of design professionals and academics. Moe's proposal focuses on The Architecture of Thermally Active Surfaces and will support work on a forthcoming book on the topic.
David Stern's project selected for House of the Month 4 March 2008
Franco House
David Stern, AIA, of Stern McCafferty Architecture and Interiors of Boston, and Adjunct Professor of Architecture, has had the Franco House selected by Architectural Record as their House of the Month for February, 2008. This is an online magazine published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
The 3500 square foot house was designed for a couple and their grown daughter. The main living spaces and master bedroom suite are on the upper floor to take advantage of water views; a suite of rooms for their daughter were designed on the lower floor and open onto the garden. Formally, the house mediates between a residential area and a waterfront green space; the taut, opaque entry volume (shown here) unfolds into a more freely shaped and open garden structure.
Alumni win design award 6 Feb 2008
Vertical Village
Sayem Khan, Dennis Grudkowski and Eric Vencer received an Honorable Mention for an international competition titled "What if New York City...Design Competition for Post-Disaster Provisional Housing". The proposal uses off-the-shelf scaffolding to build a multi-story tent village. It was deemed the most rapidly deployable high-density system but only for al imited time period and with minimal occupancy standards and communal facilities.
Elizabeth Whittaker's firm wins awards 23 Jan 08
MiniLuxe Project
Part-Time Lecturer Elizabeth Whittaker's firm, Merge Architects, has won several awards. The MiniLuxe project (2007) in Newton Center won both the AIA New England Design Award as well as the AIA/BSA Honor Award. This nail salon offers typical services, as well as a space for an after-hours lounge and private-party venue. The hybrid programming was the inspiration for the large graphic wall panels that operate as an inexpensive branding mechanism. The wall panels are backlit at night to transform the space into the after-hours lounge.
Bakery/Cafe Project
The Bakery/Cafe project (2007) in Belmont won the AIA/BSA Design Award. The program consists of a bakery with a retail shop incorporated into the space. Product display was a critical component of the design. The product display operates as a zoning mechanism for the project. The product shelf/boxes disengage from the side wall and become a boundary screen/wall to provide borrowed light and a division between café and bakery.
Moe Publishes Critical Positions on Sustainability 22 Nov 07
Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture
Assistant Professor Kiel Moe has just published his first book, Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture. The book presents 28 case studies that are robust examples of what too often and too easily is described as 'sustainable architecture.' As the book demonstrates, integrated design inevitably means a variety of things to various practices. However, regardless of their impetus, each practice develops productive confluences between energy strategies, construction, and architectural form. Pre-order from Amazon here.
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