Established after the 2011 disaster, the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative is giving students invaluable experience while also helping devastated communities. Photo courtesy MIT Last summer, a team of students and faculty members from MIT traveled to Minami-sanriku, Japan, to survey damage caused by the March 2011 tsunami. The trip was spawned by the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative, a program launched after the Tohoku catastrophe. Click to view additional images. The $2,000 project is a “humble start,” says Kanda. “It is a seed for more to come.” Click to view additional images. Related Links: Extensive Coverage: Rebuilding Japan When a team
At New York’s Center for Architecture, an exhibition of models quietly constructed in Iraq shows 20th-century dreams for the city. Image Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Project for the Competition for a National Mosque of Baghdad, 1982, Baghdad, Iraq. Click the image above to view additional image from City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952-1982. Related Exhibition: In addition to the Baghdad exhibition the Center for Architecture is simultaneously showcasing current work in the greater Middle East. On view through June 23, CHANGE: Architecture and Engineering in the Middle East, 2000-Present, strikes a hopeful note on
After conceiving a master plan for the Roosevelt Island campus, SOM is not a shoo-in for designing the actual buildings. Image courtesy SOM SOM designed the master plan for the new Cornell campus on Roosevelt Island. Related Links: Ambitious Energy Goals in SOM Plan for NYC Campus In December, New York City announced it had selected Cornell, along with partner Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, to build a new applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island. The master plan for the campus, conceived by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), likely helped the university win the bid, though it didn’t hurt that Stanford,
Photo courtesy BNIM Architects The design of the Bancroft School project will include both new construction of residential units and the renovation and restoration of the existing historic Bancroft School structure. Photo courtesy LivingHomes The new LivingHome C6, developed in collaboration with Make It Right and William McDonough, can be fully constructed in less than two months and installed on-site in one day. The Make It Right Foundation, founded by Brad Pitt to help build sustainably designed, flood-protected homes in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, has broadened its scope to back affordable housing projects in other cities. Working with BNIM
Its critics called it a “bridge to nowhere”—borrowing an epithet popularized by Sarah Palin—and it endured 15 years of civic wrangling, but a new span designed by Santiago Calatrava was finally welcomed by the city of Dallas with an opening party that took over its roadway on Friday night.
Photo ' Rob Pyatt University of Colorado students will design housing for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Click on the slide show button to view images of projects by architecture students at additional schools. Yale graduate students have been required to design a low-income house since 1967. This dwelling, at 12 King Place, was built in 2010. Related Links: University of Colorado Students to Design and Build Native American Housing ARCHIVE House Aims to Curb Disease Through Design DesignBuildBLUFF: Drawing on two-by-fours Teaching By Example Like a lot of architects and architecture students these days, Nathan Hammitt believes design has
Photo courtesy James Walden In the archival photo above, Walden is the teacher standing in the background. Photo courtesy James Walden In the 1960s, James Walden and two colleagues started an architecture school in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, as part of a USAID initiative. He recently returned to give a keynote address at the school's 50th-anniversary celebration. Starting an architecture school in a developing country was not part of my life plan when I launched my career more than half a century ago. Yet in 1960, five years after graduating from Texas A&M University with a B.Arch. and three years
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