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On Oikonomia: Saarinen’s Ezra Stiles College Open After $55M Renovation

Sep 2011

By Samuel Jacobson — Filed under: Architecture News ,Articles ,Politics ,Refurbishment , Connecticut, Eero Saarinen, Ezra Stiles College, MIT, Morse College, New Haven, Renovation, The Tech, USA, Yale Daily News, Yale University

Ezra Stiles College under construction, 1961. Copyright Balthazar Korab Ltd.

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT–Yale’s Ezra Stiles College, designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1961, reopened to students last month after a one-year, $55 million dollar renovation. The project was the last in a complete overhaul of all the residential colleges at Yale, which started in 1998 and has cost over $500 million (adjusted for inflation).

Students are happy with the work, praising the new brick pizza oven in the dining hall, shift from single to suite-style rooms, and improved furniture and lighting. Jon Rubin ’12 told the Yale Daily News (YDN) the renovated Stiles is “definitely a step up” from the college he lived in two years ago.
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10 College Campuses with the Best Architecture

Aug 2011

By Sarah Edwards — Filed under: Architecture News ,Educational , Bennington College, Brown University, Cornell University, Florida Southern College, Harvard University, Illinois Institute of Technology, MIT, Pratt Institute, University of Virginia, Yale University

Photo by Rex Hammock - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rexblog/

Architectural Digest has compiled a list of college campuses throughout the United States which have the most remarkable architectural traditions, which broadcast their innovative philosophy through design. A number of colleges have fully incorporated modern architecture into their campus schemes, for example MIT; while others have preserved their historical edifices through the course of the years, like the University of Virginia. The list involves some prestigious institutions, in addition to some surprises, all possessing their individual architectural languages.

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New Energy Tools to Assist in China’s Rapid Urbanization

Aug 2011

By Tim Winstanley — Filed under: Architecture News , China, energy, MIT

A new set of tools have been developed by researchers at MIT in collaboration with China’s Tsinghua University that will evaluate the performance and energy consumption of large-scale projects. Led by Dennis Frenchman and Christopher Zegras from MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning, these new set of guidelines and tools are a proactive response to the rapid urbanization of China and its ever-increasing development and infrastructure projects. The main goal is to introduce sustainable methods of implementation and construction, and responsible energy patterns one neighborhood at a time.

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MIT’s Festival for Art Science and Technology ‘FAST Light’

May 2011

By Kelly Minner — Filed under: Events , Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, MIT, MY Studio, NADAAA, Nader Tehrani, office dA

Liquid Archive, Courtesy of NADAA

MIT’s Festival for Art Science and Technology will culminate this weekend May 7th and 8th with FAST Light, a series of innovative site specific installations around the MIT campus and along the Charles River. Installations by MIT Department of Architecture Head, Nader Tehrani (founder and principal of Office dA and of the newly formed NADAAA), Professor Sheila Kennedy (Principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture), and Professor Meejin Yoon (Principal of Höweler + Yoon Architecture and MY Studio) are among the final river front projects that will light up the night along the river this Saturday and Sunday in front of Killian Court at MIT.

More information, photographs, and videos following the break

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FAST Light at MIT

Mar 2011

By Kelly Minner — Filed under: Exhibition , MIT

Courtesy of Skylar Tibbits

The FAST Light festival of art, science and technology celebrates MIT’s culture of creativity and invention. Beginning in February installations, pavilions and artwork have transformed the campus continuing thru May. Installations demonstrate how the tools of ‘technology, invention and fantasy can transform the physical environment in thought-provoking, breathtaking ways.’

VoltaDom, by Skylar Tibit is currently on view as part of more than 20 installations created by MIT faculty and students. Tibit shared with us a video and photographs of the installation. A complete list of installations and events can be found on the official site for FAST Light.

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ICEWALL / Yushiro Okamoto

Mar 2011

By Hank Jarz — Filed under: Design ,Exhibition , Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT, USA, Yushiro Okamoto

Photographs courtesy of Yushiro Okamoto

As a part of MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration, a student competition was held for a installation to become part of the festivities. Yushiro Okamoto‘s winning proposal, ICEWALL, has recently been completed and has been submitted to share with us here at ArchDaily. Follow after the break to browse through a large collection of photographs of the project.
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AD Futures #4: SPARC

Feb 2009

By David Basulto — Filed under: AD Futures , MIT, SPARC

HiDrone - 1st Prize Awarded London Architecture Gallery International Competition 2008

SPARC is a team of international architects at the MIT based in Boston, MA, with a multidisciplinary background at the MIT´s Media Lab. This has resulted on a continuous research on smart/responsive environments applied to the world of architecture, design, urbanism and landscape architecture.

This new relation between technologies and built spaces has opened a wide array of possibilities, that we are just starting to see. And that´s why I choose this practice for this week´s AD Futures.

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