On September 28th, the MIT Architecture Alumni Group will host a Pizza dinner to officially launch the Student + Alumni Mentoring program and host a presentation from the State of Design Committee. Course IV Students and Alumni are invited to attend, connect and learn more about these exciting initiatives!

This September we will initiate two MITArchA Mentoring programs, the MIT/MITArchA Student + Alumni Mentoring Program, in collaboration with the MIT Architecture Department, and also, the MITArchA Alumni + Alumni Mentoring Program. The Professional Forum will be launched separately, and is in development. Our program is open to all MITArchA members. We invite all Course 4 alumni to participate and join MITArchA at no cost, but if you can, please make a small donation. To join MITArchA or renew your membership, please visit the MITArchA website at:  www.mitarcha.org for more information, and then complete the Mentoring Questionnaire, if you haven’t already completed it.

In brief, the MITArchA Mentorship & Professional Forum Program connects alumni practitioners to current students and alumni, and will also offer a Professional Forum for peer-to-peer exchange. This program allows alumni to draw upon their years of knowledge and wisdom to guide young graduates as they embark upon their careers, and to professional alumni who are seeking to broaden their understanding of a career path, practice, or new areas of interest. These programs are designed to request a modest time commitment of the participants and that meet a broad range in professional interest to match the vast diversity of our alumni career paths.

We’re excited to help build a MITArchA professional community that’s supportive of students, and alumni.  If you have any questions, please contact us. If you know of other alumni who may be interested, please direct them to the MITArchA website, or this announcement.

Developing critical discourse and open platforms for sharing ideas and events on the topics of design are the core values of the MITArchA Committee on Design. While we meet periodically within the context of the Board of Directors, our more important role is to serve Course IV alumni and create opportunities for alumni to connect, engage and return to an environment that shares our common interests in design.   

Our first initiative since our inception in 2021 is an exciting opportunity for our alumni to come together on key issues within the arena of design. In a fast-changing world where design now more than ever will make a difference to our future, we hope to establish an inquiry into the work and thoughts of our alumni and what makes MIT design unique. 

The State of MIT Design is about you: our alumni. We ask the question- how do we design at MIT?

The evening will present a collection of essays on this topic followed by discussion.

Co-presented by MIT Architecture Alumni Association and DiCE Lab (Digital Circular Economy Lab), please join us for a lecture entitled Digital Technologies for Sustainable and Circular Construction, featuring alumni Dr. Philippe Block and Dr. Catherine De Wolff.

Philippe Block, SMarchS '05 & PhD '09 explores the translation of the (lost) knowledge of the Gothic master builders into today's praxis. Following the motto "strength through geometry" and the principles of traditional unreinforced masonry construction, this short input will show how translating the (lost) knowledge of the Gothic master builders into today's praxis results in truly sustainable, circular and economical structures, addressing climate change by significantly reducing embodied emissions, utilizing fewer single-use resources and minimizing construction waste.

Catherine De Wolf, MS'14 & PhD'17 explores how digital technologies facilitate the realization of a 5 Ds framework for circular construction. A video explores how digital technologies facilitate the realization of a 5 Ds framework for circular construction - Data, Detection, Disassembly, Distribution and Design - in a harmonious effort to close the resource loop. The video highlights reuse in action through the project on the reuse of bent glasses from the iconic Centre Pompidou in Paris and the construction of a dome on the ETH Zurich Campus made from 100% reclaimed elements.

for more info: jgfrontado@alum.mit.edu

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Hilary Lewis (MIT SMArchS '88) will examine the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut and its architect Philip Johnson who lived at the property for over a half-century. First built in 1949, but expanded over decades, The Glass House is now a center for art, architecture and culture, and a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Glass House continues to preserve both its many built structures – there are a dozen beyond the main glass pavilion – as well as a nearly 50-acre landscape that is integral to the architecture of the place.

Johnson was best known in the world of architecture – from visits to the Bauhaus in the 1920s to power lunches at the Four Seasons Restaurant in the 1980s – but he played an equally influential role as a curator and patron of art. Indeed, he was the first curator of architecture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and one the largest donors to MoMA. The talk will look at the property through the lens of architectural history and also at the extraordinary (and complex) figure behind this special property, which served as both a laboratory for architecture and a salon for the arts.

Hilary Lewis is Chief Curator & Creative Director at The Glass House and co-author of two books on Johnson.

EVENT DETAILS:

Date: 11/10/2022
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time (US)
Location: Virtual via Zoom

Primary Contact:
Olivia Huang / olhivia@alum.mit.edu
The event is free for alumni and guests

ABOUT HILARY LEWIS

Hilary Lewis SMArchS ‘88 is the inaugural Chief Curator & Creative Director at The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and former home of the architect Philip Johnson. She is co-author of two books on the architect: Philip Johnson: The Architect in His Own Words (Rizzoli) and The Architecture of Philip Johnson (Time Warner Book Group). For over a decade she worked directly with Johnson on books, exhibitions and other creative projects. 

Lewis is the recipient of the AIA International Book Award and was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She is also a grant recipient from the Getty Research Institute.

Her undergraduate work was completed at Princeton, while her graduate studies took Lewis to MIT for an S.M.Arch.S. degree in architectural history and theory and to Harvard for the Ph.D. program in Urban Planning. At MIT she taught Course 4 undergraduates and at Harvard she taught both undergraduates and graduate students. She lectures and writes frequently on Johnson, American architecture and the future of cities. 

Please join MIT Department of Architecture Head Nicholas de Monchaux and Professor Sheila Kennedy at the AIA 2022 Conference on Architecture, Thursday night June 23, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Sheraton Grand Chicago, 301 E. North Water Street.

MIT Department of Architecture Alumni do not need to be AIA members nor have an AIA Chicago conference ticket to attend.

Drinks will be provided.

Please feel free to let Paul Pettigrew paulpett@mit.edu know if you plan to attend and/or have any additional questions prior to the event.

MITArchA Social and Annual Meeting

MITArchA is welcoming Course IV alumni back to campus for a causal social with students, faculty, and staff on Friday, June 17. On the following day, Saturday, June 18 MITArchA will host their annual meeting in a hybrid format. This promises to be an exciting weekend and we look forward to connecting with you all!

FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2022 from 5:30-7:30 PM ET

MITArchA Social @ MIT

N51 courtyard, enter via Village Street
(rain location will move indoors into the N51 woodshop)

2 registration options (closes one week prior to Event):
$10 General
Free for M10 and students

DESCRIPTION:
 
MITArchA is welcoming alumni to the annual meeting on Saturday with this casual social event for alumni, students, faculty, and staff to meet up and catch up. Celebrate the end of the school year (congrats grads!), summer, and the return to in-person events! MITArchA board members will make comments at 6:30pm. Food, beer, wine provided.
 
We will also feature a slideshow in the background of what our alumni are up to. To include something of yours - whether it's a building, installation, book, art, research  - fill out this Google form or email an image, your name, your MIT program and year, the project's title, and other pertinent identifying information (such as location, organization) to olhivia@alum.mit.edu.

SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2022 from 11:00am to 1:00pm ET followed by a luncheon

MITArchA FY 2021-2022 Annual Meeting
Location: Stella Room (7-338) or virtually via Zoom.

DESCRIPTION:
MITArchA is excited to announce that this year, we will hold our Annual Meeting in a hybrid format!  Participants will have the choice to participate in person/on campus* at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture + Planning.  All “in-person” participants must register in advance and receive a “TIM Ticket” to access campus buildings. See registration link, below.

The Annual Meeting Agenda will include:

• 11:00AM-12:00N: Fiscal year-end reports from MITArchA Board Officers, Vice-Presidents, and Regional Representatives

• Proposed By-Laws (Charter) Amendments (Link will be posted on the MITArchA website - member only access page)

• Nominating Committee Slate for the FY2022-2023 Board of Directors and Leadership (Link will be posted on the MITArchA website - member only access page)

• 12:00-12:15pm: Department of Architecture Head Nicholas de Monchaux will be our special guest and provide remarks

• 12:15-1:00pm: Continued reports from MITArchA Board Officers

Recognition of our Founding Board members1:00-2:00: A luncheon will be held immediately following the Annual Meeting to encourage causal interaction with the Board and fellow Members!

This is a chance to meet the current and incoming Board leadership of MITArchA, learn more about our initiatives and goals, provide your input and ideas for MITArchA, and to also reconnect with fellow alumni and the Cambridge community.  We look forward to you joining us!

The MITArchA Board of Directors

* following all MIT Covid-19 Guidelines

Join us in welcoming Katharine Kettner and Ruth Moyers of MIT’s National Organization for Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) as they share the organization’s ongoing initiative on representation in reviews. NOMAS issues a public report each semester showing the basic demographics of reviewers as a tool for accountability and to remind our architecture community that it matters who we bring to the table for these end-of-semester conversations. The organization’s overall mission includes championing diversity in design by calling for equality and fairness in our education, celebrating excellence in our discipline, and providing community members with resources to develop personally and professionally.

This event will also feature a conversational session with attendees on these topics and how interested alumni can help and work together with NOMAS.

Event Description

We invite all registered MITArchA members to join our January 22 Monthly Board meeting.

In addition to our standard agenda, which includes reports from Board Leadership across a range of topics such as: Programs, Communications, Membership, and M-10 activities, we will be discussing proposed updates to the MITArchA bylaws.

All registered members of MITArchA are invited to review the current bylaws and to familiarize themselves with the proposed updates (link). Time will be allocated during the meeting for discussion and voting.

As registered and engaged members of MITArchA, we hope that you will join us for this important event.

You can join by clicking the button below on January 22, 2022 at 11 AM. No registration is required. You can also add the event to your calendar via the links on the upper left of this page.

See event agenda here.

Want to join MITArchA but don’t have time to figure out how to sign up? Want to join MITArchA but want to get to know us better before you can commit?

 Please join us on November 10, 2021 at 8pm Eastern Time / 5pm Pacific Time, for a virtual event where we assist you with signing up for membership while you get to know us better. Emily, MArch ’91, Vice President of Membership and Olivia, MArch ’18, Vice President of Programs for MITArchA, want to meet you and will be available for casual conversations as we walk you through signing up. Your annual membership to MITArchA is free if you are a MIT Course 4 alumnus or alumna.

 As a bonus, if you are interested in providing advice to students or fellow alumni, we will also help you sign up for the MIT Alumni Advisors Hub, an at-your-convenience platform to speak with students interested in your guidance.

 There is no better time than right now to reconnect with your alumni community and your alma mater. Join us to discuss issues of your concern. Join us to renew old friendships and make new friends. Join us to impact and change our world for the better. Join us to reenergize your purpose. We are your community of MIT Architecture alumni, and you are welcome here – JOIN US.

Please click on the Registration button below to receive the Zoom link to join us for the MIT Chinese Alumni Group webinar and hear the story of how architectural robotics meet sculpting arts, as Dr. Zhao Ma discusses his research. With the industrial upgrading trend in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) field, using industrial robots to automate the construction processes has become more prominent in recent years.

However, unlike most robotic treatments in modern assembly lines, the design uniqueness of architecture components requires personalized customizable robotic fabrication procedures, powered by specialized algorithms. What can these robots and algorithms really do? While academia and industries are seeking different solutions, Dr. Ma has provided his unique answer: sculpting art. Dr. Ma will also discuss his career and personal challenges, particularly as a Chinese, and how he bridges the many worlds that he inhabits.

We are pleased to present:

Speaker Zhao Ma (MIT 2017 Master of Engineering, in Civil and Environmental Engineering; MIT 2017 Master of Architecture; ETH Zurich 2020, PhD Architecture) is an architect, designer, and computer scientist based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a researcher at ETH Zurich, where he focuses on optimization-based methods for computational robotic fabrication. His featured work “Stylized Robotic Sculpting” developed a novel design and robotic fabrication system for carving clay sculptures with robots.

Zhao received a Master of Architecture degree and a Master of Engineering (Structural) degree from MIT. He obtained his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich, where he conducted cross-discipline research shared with Gramazio Kohler Research (ETHZ), Computational Robotics Lab (ETHZ), and Disney Research Zurich.

Zhao seeks to bridge the fields of design, engineering, and computational fabrication through cross-disciplinary collaborations. His work has been featured in various awards and patents across disciplines including architecture, landscape, and computational design. His awards include: 2021 DigitalFutures Young Award and 2018 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Award.

Moderator Wean Khing Wong, MIT SB Biology 1984, is a multilingual and multicultural attorney, mediator and trainer with an American and international client base. She is a court-appointed mediator for the California Court of Appeal, 2nd Appellate District. She has taught mediation and multicultural interactions to senior international judicial officers. She was also a Hearing Officer for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office. Wean Khing authored award-winning law and mediation articles and provides Continuing Legal Education. Wean Khing holds a California Bar license and a US Patent Attorney license; and an MA in Counseling Psychology. She is the Founder and President of the MIT Chinese Alumni Group.

Please visit and join the MIT Chinese Alumni Group at: http://mitcag.alumgroup.mit.edu to be added to our event invite list.

All MIT alumni/ae, students, Sloan fellows, and affiliates are welcome. You do not have to be Chinese. Membership is free. Events are public and free.

You will need an Infinite Connection account to join us. You may create your account at: https://alum.mit.edu/account/create. We look forward to seeing you.

EVENT DESCRIPTION 

We invite you to attend a meeting of MITArchA during the MIT Alumni Leadership Conference where we may further engage your input on the direction and opportunities that MITArchA should address over the upcoming years as we fulfil our mission to evolve, grow, and deliver. 

We will recognize those whose leadership has brought us to this point and then use the session to build upon that legacy. This will be our opportunity to pick up where we left off at the MITArchA Annual Meeting to share perspectives of MITArchA’s value proposition in service to you as alumni of the nation’s first professional program in architecture.  

We also hope to explore future programmatic and event opportunities that reflect the remarkable range of career paths MITArchA members have pursued, as we continue to leverage the Architecture Department’s transdisciplinary approach to education and its growing relationships across MIT's Schools and Research Centers.

The times continue to challenge us all at many levels and this session should be an outstanding opportunity for us to support each other in meeting this challenge as design professionals. The Alumni Association shall forward the link to the event and support us in this convening. 

Your voice matters!

We build on a strong legacy from MITArchA’s Founders and intend to see MITArchA evolve into an inclusive, rewarding, and joyful experience for all Course 4 Alumni who choose to follow online, attend events, join, and/or engage in another manner of their choosing. MITArchA is and will always be defined by you - our remarkable Alumni and Members! Looking forward to a great ALC and MITArchA meeting!

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Join us for the launch of the Future of the City: Mobility event series, which presents how MIT alumni from design, business, and mobility fields are leading global efforts to create 21st-century models to transform both the city and transportation. The series will describe initiatives to solve the climate crisis, decarbonize the global economy, and create more equitable and sustainable urban ecosystems.

Keynote speaker Henry Ford III MBA ’10 will present Ford’s strategic initiatives to transform the company and its iconic product lines. Then Mary Culler, development director, Michigan Central Station, and Priyanka Shah SMArchS/MCP '08, Senior Associate, PAU, will present the design for Ford’s new mobility innovation district in Corktown, Detroit’s oldest neighborhood, intended to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, educators and companies to help solve real-world mobility challenges in a dynamic urban community.

Dr. Maria T. Zuber, Vice President for Research and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at MIT, will open with an overview of the Institute’s commitments and relevant programs and then moderate a Q+A between the audience and the speakers.

SPEAKERS

MODERATOR

ABOUT

This event series is produced by MIT Architecture Alumni (MITArchA) in collaboration with the MIT Club of Southeast Michigan, and the MIT Alumni/ae Energy, Environment, and Sustainability Network (EESN). For more information about Ford’s Michigan Central development, visit michigancentral.com.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Immersed in revolutionary times and impacted by the pandemic, the School of Architecture at Universidad Simon Bolivar is reassessing how to operate in a new environment of difficulty. What new paths are open? What opportunities are there to move ahead? Jose Guillermo Frontado, M.Arch.AS ’80 will talk on his experience as a student and as a professor of architecture at USB. Through text and images he will describe the origins of the School and its evolution through academic, economic, and political challenges.

SPEAKER

Jose Guillermo Frontado, M.Arch.AS ’80

Professor Jose Guillermo Frontado, M.Arch.AS ’80 is an architect, an educator, and a consultant to various private and public clients and institutions in Venezuela. He received his M.Arch in Advanced Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Since then he has served as a Professor of Architecture at the Department of Design at Universidad Simon Bolivar, from which he received his professional degree in 1977.

He has led the design of many cultural and institutional projects in Latin America including: Cellular Biology Laboratories and the Marine Biology Research Center to Universidad Simon Bolivar, and has won many design competitions for projects including: New Chapels for Cementerio del Este, Caracas and the Faculty of Law and Politics for the Universidad Central de Venezuela (with Frontado & Larranaga architects).

CO-SPEAKERS

Professor Franco Micucci

Franco Micucci graduated from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas in 1989 and received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1992. He has served as a Professor of Architecture at USB since 1993 and has taught in the Master of Urban Design at Universidad Metropolitana since 1995. As a practitioner, he has designed and realized a variety of architecture and urban design projects and has been awarded in many prominent design competitions.

Professor Aliz Mena

Aliz Mena received her B.A. in Architecture from Universidad Simon Bolivar in 2004 and received a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design as a Fulbright Scholar from the Pratt Institute in 2011. She serves as Professor and Chair of Architecture at Universidad Simon Bolivar. She divides her professional activities between a design studio and an NGO, through which she has realized a variety of architecture, urban design, and community projects.

Note: Event Registration will be handled through the Infinite Connection.

Join us for our 2021 annual meeting! This event will be a unique chance to reconnect with fellow alumni, hear from the Head of the Department, and meet your incoming Board.

We will hear remarks from Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT, who will discuss the current state of the Department. This will lead into short presentations from the current MITArchA Board of Directors and reflections from Founding Members Jacob Kain M.Arch ’00 and Mina Marefat, D.Phil '88.

Afterwards, we will hear remarks from our incoming Co-Presidents William Gilchrist ’77, M.Arch’82, SM’82 and Constance Bodurow MCP’91, SM’91 regarding their vision for MITArchA before electing our incoming Board of Directors.

The event will conclude with a series of online breakout sessions for alumni, hosted by Board Members.

PROGRAM INCLUDES:

• Keynote presentation: Reflections on Year 1, featuring MIT Architecture Head, Professor Nicholas de Monchaux.

• MITArchA board updates and elections

• Breakout alumni conversations

Nicholas de Monchaux is Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. He is a partner in the architecture practice modem, and a founder of the design technology company Local Software.

Until 2020 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley. De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural and urban history of the Apollo Spacesuit, winner of the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize, as well as Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). In 2012 he was named one of the “Public Interest Design 100” by Good Magazine.

His design work has been exhibited widely, including at the Biennial of the Americas, the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Lisbon Architecture Triennial, SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His work has been supported by MacDowell, the Santa Fe Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hellman Fund, and the Bakar Spark Fund. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Course IV alumni are active in many professions and industries. We are architects, designers, builders, educators, innovators, community activists. Our young graduates continue to explore the possibilities as they put their design education to work. Please join us as four of our MIT10-ers (graduated within the last 10 years) share their achievements and the different career trajectories they have each forged in their corner of the world.

EVENT PANELISTS

The panelists for this event will be:

Ana Vargas, SMArchS '14 | Trazando Espacios
Catherine Winfield, MArch '13 | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Matthew Bunza, MArch '13 | Metaamo
Sunnie S. Y. Lau, MArch '13 | MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node

The conversation will be moderated by Marilys Nepomechie MArch ‘83.

See below for the panelists’ bios.

EVENT NOTES 

The event is free for all MIT alumni and current students. Click the Register button to receive the Zoom link for the event.

MITArchA members will be able to access the recorded webinar on MITArchA's Infinite Connection site.

PANELIST BIOS

MITArchA will hold its Annual Meeting virtually this year. All Course 4 alumni are invited to join the Annual meeting for a reflection of the last years accomplishments and ideas for the next year.

Please click on the Registration Button to receive the Zoom link. 

EVENT DESCRIPTION

America is currently in the midst of a pandemic that threatens to upend life as we know it. There is a great chance that many aspects of contemporary life will change for the foreseeable future. How will we live? How will we work? How will we learn? All of these questions remain unanswered. 

Thankfully, our community is thinking about what the future may hold. Join us on August 6, 2020 for an online panel discussion that will focus on life after COVID-19. The event will feature two prominent alumni: Liz Burow M.Arch ‘05, Vice President of Workplace Strategy at WeWork, and Elliot Felix, M.Arch ‘06, Founder at brightspot strategy. This event will be a wide-ranging discussion that will highlight the role that Course IV alumni are playing in terms of strategizing the shape of life and work post-pandemic.

EVENT PANELISTS

The panelists for this event will be:

Liz Burow M.Arch ‘05 | Workplace Strategy & Design Research Consultant
Elliot Felix M.Arch ’06 | Founder, Brightspot Strategy

EVENT MODERATORS

The event will be moderated and managed by MITArchA leaders:

Pamela Tang MArch '83, SMCE '85 | President and Northern California Representative
Marilys R. Nepomechie, M.Arch '83 | Southeast US Representative
Kenneth Namkung, M.Arch ‘03 | Vice President of Communications

EVENT NOTES 

The event is free for all MIT alumni. Click the Registration button to receive the Zoom link for the event.

MITArchA members will be able to access the recorded webinar on MITArchA's Infinite Connection site.

EVENT DESCRIPTION 

When COVID-19 hit America, the MIT community immediately leapt into action. Architecture alumni were integral to this effort on many levels, conceiving and delivering solutions at different scales in record time. Members of our community created surge facilities in hospitals (in collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers) to respond to the crisis; designed and prototyped low-cost ventilators in less than a month; and planned pandemic emergency operations for a major urban metropolis.

Please join us for an online panel discussion that will focus on the Course IV community’s response to the COVID-19 crisis—this will be the first of multiple events that will discuss: responses to the pandemic; the shape of life afterwards, and other topics seen through the filter of the Course IV alumni community.

EVENT PANELISTS

The panelists for this event will include:

Jeffrey Berman ’80 | Principal, Jeffrey Berman Architects
Marcel Botha SMArchS ’06 | CEO, 10XBeta
William Gilchrist ’77 M.Arch ’82 SM’82 | Director of Planning and Building for the City of Oakland, CA

EVENT MODERATORS

The event will be moderated and managed by MITArchA leaders:

Pamela Tang MArch '83, SMCE '85 | President and Northern California Representative
Marilys R. Nepomechie, M.Arch '83 | Southeast US Representative
Kenneth Namkung, M.Arch ‘03 | Vice President of Communications

EVENT NOTES 

The event is free for all MIT alumni. Click the Registration button above to receive the Zoom link for the event.

MITArchA members will be able to access the recorded webinar on MITArchA's Infinite Connection site.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

If you live in Southern California or are attending the AIA Conference on Architecture 2020, we invite you to join us for  our MIT Alumni Reception @ AIA2020. This will give our community an opportunity to engage with each other, to celebrate our achievements and shared history, to form social and professional connections, and to showcase our accomplishments to the world. 

Alumni will be able to submit images and text to be displayed during the event. Email MITArchA (mitarcha.website@gmail.com) with the following: Name, Degree/Year, short description (50 words or less), and captioned photo collage (2 slides or less, in a PPT file formatted to a 4:3 proportion) by Friday, May 1, 2020 to be displayed as part of the evening’s program (see note at bottom of event description).

In addition, MITArchA will honor alumnus Dr. Ronald Lu FAIA, M.Arch. A S. ’73, with the 2020 MITArchA Alumni Achievement Award. Dr. Ronald Lu is the Founder and Chairman of Ronald Lu & Partners (RLP) Hong Kong, an award-winning architecture and interior design practice established in 1976 that is dedicated to the delivery of world-class projects and green built environments across the globe. With offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, RLP has received over 300 local and international accolades and is ranked by “BD World Architecture” as the World’s Top 44 architectural practices in 2020.

Please join us in recognizing and applauding the breadth, diversity, and the professional achievements of our fellow Course IV Alumni.

Learn more about Mr. Lu here.

EVENT LOCATION
JW Marriott Los Angeles LA LIVE
Diamond Salon 7
900 W Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90015

EVENT DATE AND TIME
Thursday, May 14, 2020
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (program starts promptly at 6:45 PM)
Space is limited so please register early.

EVENT PRICING
MITArchA Patrons/Supporting Members: Free. Up to two guests $20 each
MITCSC/MITArchA Regular Members and up to 3 guests: $20
Non-Members $30

EVENT CONTACT
Pamela Tang / pcs83@alum.mit.edu

MIT Architecture’s Spring 2020 Lecture Series scheduled for April 30, 2020 at 6 pm EST is available for alumni viewing on webcast.  Thursday’s lecture, organized by the MIT NOMAS Chapter, is titled, ‘Bio-Trust: On Insides and Outsides”, and will feature Chris Leong and Dominic Leong of LEONG LEONG.  Registration will not be needed to attend the lecture.

Chris and Dominic Leong will join us on Zoom right after the lecture from 7:30 – 8:30 pm EST, for MITArchA’s Social Hour.  Registration is free but required.  You will receive the link in your confirmation email. 

Lecture Webcast Link:  http://web.mit.edu/webcast/architecture/s20/2/

Registration Link for Social Hour (you can also use the button below): bit.ly/2Y2YUt7

EVENT DESCRIPTION
Join your fellow MITArchA friends for our 2020 Spring Celebration! Grab some food and drinks, mingle with alumnae/alumni, and learn about what we have planned for the year. Our organization is member driven, and we'd love your input and ideas as we develop new programming for 2020 and beyond. Prost!

EVENT LOCATION
Willkommen Beer Garden
2198 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
https://willkommen.beer

DATE AND TIME
March 12th, 2020, from 5–7 PM

NOTES:
Alumni will pay for their own food and drinks.
Please RSVP (free registration) via the button below.

EVENT CONTACTS
Alex Dixon / amdixon@alum.mit.edu
Emily Huang / emhuang@alum.mit.edu

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Electric Streams of Wind is an environmental sound art project by composer, artist, and designer José Rivera, aka Proxemia. Exploring the development of radar technology for military and weather research, this piece first existed as a week-long site-specific 8.1-channel audio installation at the MIT Green Building in 2017.

Both a meditation on grounding and a mapping of architectural atmospheres, the installation captured audio recordings from the roof’s weather station and transmitted them to the 1st floor loggia in real-time. Now reworked for a limited edition CD, Electric Streams of Wind brings attention to and seeks to disrupt the ambience of every day brought about by constant information flows, automation, sensors, and energy systems.

José will present an experimental reimagining of the project as a 4-channel audiovisual performance. Electric Streams of Wind will also be available as a handmade CD/booklet for purchase at the event.

This program is supported in part by a grant from Cambridge Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Complementary refreshments will be provided by MITArchA.

Listen to samples here on BandCamp.

INFORMATION

Date // Thursday January 16, 2020
Time // 7:30pm
Location // Industry Lab, 88 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Pricing // $5 students // $10 general admission
Tickets & RSVP at www.proxemiasound.net

BIOGRAPHY

José Rivera (aka Proxemia) is an architecturally-trained artist, composer, and designer investigating the intersections of aural and spatial experience. His practice is often expressed through electroacoustic music and experimental sound works, multi¬channel installation and performance, sound design for film, location recording, cartography, graphic and architectural design.

His works have been exhibited internationally, as well as at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Goethe-Institut Boston, ICA Boston (Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957), MIT’s MediaLab, Green Building and List Visual Art Center, Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, The Center for Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth, and Le Laboratoire in Cambridge. Along with numerous collaborations, his fluid body of work also includes the design and construction of an open¬-air performance space for a youth dance and drumming group in rural Ghana.

He studied art and sound in MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology Program (SM 2017), and received a BS in Architecture and Environmental Design from Kent State University in 2011.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

In concert with the MIT Department of Architecture’s celebration of its 150th anniversary, the MIT Club of South Texas brings you a tour of Houston as seen through the lens of MIT.

Narrated by renowned architectural historian Stephen Fox, the three hour excursion will highlight the Institute’s contribution to the Bayou City’s skyline and neighborhoods. Including works by notables such as I.M. Pei, John Staub and many others, the city is replete with landmarks with strong connections to the first school of architecture in the United States.

Upon returning to our embarking point at The Goode Company Taqueria, those who wish can stay for lunch.

Note: Registration will be hosted on the website of the MIT Club of South Texas.

DATE AND TIME:
Saturday, November 9, 2019
9:00 AM (bus leaves at 9:15 AM sharp) to 12:30 PM

EVENT LOCATION:
Goode Company Taqueria and Hamburgers
4902 Kirby Dr, Houston, TX 77098
Parking will be available here for the duration of the bus tour

EVENT SPEAKER:
Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas (http://anchoragefoundation.org/). He teaches classes on the history of Houston architecture at Rice University and the University of Houston. Stephen is also author of the Houston Architectural Guide, and a contributor to the Buildings of Texas: Central, South and Gulf Coast, a guidebook to architecture in the state.

EVENT PRICING:

• MIT Alumni / Parents = $20 / person

  • Dues Paid members for the 2019 membership year)

  • Dues Paid Parents register at the $20 rate

• Guests of MIT Alumni / Parents = $40 / person

• MIT Alumni / Parents (Non-Dues Paid 2019 Members) = $40 / person

Registration will be open until 8:00AM, Nov 9, 2019

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Attendees of the MIT Alumni Reception at ArchitectureBoston Expo 2019 are invited to a dinner after the reception, to be held at Trillium Fort Point Restaurant and Brewery, located at 50 Thomson Place, Boston MA 02210.

Trillium Fort Point features modern New England farmhouse inspired food created by Chef Michael Morway, with beer brewed on site using both stainless steel and oak fermentation.

Please register via the button below so we can estimate numbers and plan accordingly.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Join fellow MIT Architecture Alumni (MITArchA) in Boston during ABX2019, the largest architecture, building and design event in the northeast. This casual event is a great chance to connect with old friends and make new ones around design, in a building designed by Course IV alums no less. The event is FREE and MITArchA is sponsoring light snacks. Drink tickets will be available for $7/ticket. Register via the ABX site HERE.

The event will feature a Pecha Kucha (10 slides in 5 minutes), if you are interested in sharing your work, please email a PDF (2000x1125) of your slides to kain@alum.mit.edu by 11/5.

If you are interested in joining alumni for a Post-event Dinner at Committee, please RSVP HERE by 11/5.

EVENT DETAILS:

Date / Thursday November 7, 2019
Time / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

6:00 - 6:30 PM / Meet & Greet
6:30 – 7:30 PM / Pecha Kucha (10 slides in 5 minutes)
7:30 – 8:00 PM / Reception
8:15 PM / Post-event Dinner at Committee (50 Northern Avenue, Boston MA 02210)

EVENT LOCATION

Boston Convention & Exhibition Center / Room 160A
415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Come meet the leaders and startups of MITdesignX, a venture accelerator program in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) dedicated to design innovation and entrepreneurship. MITdesignX empowers students, faculty and researchers to build new business ventures and forward-thinking solutions designed to address critical challenges facing the future of design, cities and the human environment.

The event will include inspiring presentations and an interactive workshop. In addition, we will have a buffet dinner and bar reception.

The evening will begin with presentations from MITdesignX faculty leaders as well as the founders of two MITdesignX backed startup ventures. Afterwards, the organizers will lead a two-hour participatory workshop in which event attendees will generate ideas to innovate and alleviate our nation’s housing affordability crisis.

The event format debuted in the Bay Area in June. Learn more about the San Francisco workshop here.

WORKSHOP LEADERS:
Professor Dennis Frenchman, Faculty Director MITdesignX and Director of the MIT Center for Real Estate
Gilad Rosenzweig, Executive Director, MITdesignX 

WORKSHOP AGENDA:

Part 1:  Presentations + Dinner
Presentations by founders of 2 MITdesignX ventures working in the fields of housing, infrastructure, and design adaptation.

Part 2: Interactive Workshop
Two-hour workshop led by MITdesignX faculty to brainstorm and develop new ideas and defined problem statements in the realm of housing that can be used to spark new startup ventures.  The work in this session will generate a compilation of material that may be used to challenge students at MIT in future courses. In addition, we also encourage participants to develop new ventures themselves.

EVENT DETAILS:
Space is limited to 50 participants; registration is required.
Location: / Arup, 77 Water St, New York, NY 10005
Date: / October 30, 2019
Time: / 5:30 - 9:00 PM 

EVENT PRICING:

• MITArchA + MITCNY Patrons: Free

  • Patrons can register one guest for the member price of $35

  • MIT Club of New York Patrons will receive a registration code via email

• MITArchA / MITCNY Members:$35

• Non-Member Alumni: $50

EVENT CONTACTS
Kenneth Namkung / namkung@alum.mit.edu
GIlad Rosenzweig  / giladr@mit.edu

MITArchA will again hold its Annual Meeting in the Stella Room at the MIT Department of Architecture. Join board members for a reflection of the last years accomplishments and bring ideas for the next year. Lunch will be served.

Primary Contact:
Jacob Kain / kain@alum.mit.edu

Date and Time:
September 28, 2019
12:15 PM to 2:00 PM

Location:
Stella Room, MIT Architecture
Room 7-338
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

EVENT DESCRIPTION

MITArchA (MIT Architecture Alumni) and Oscilloscope Labs present the Cambridge premiere of The Proposal, a Film by Jill Magid SMVisS '00. Join us at Landmark Theatres, Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge on June 27, for an exclusive viewing of the film. With remarks by MIT Department of Architecture Professor Caroline Jones.

Known as “the artist among architects”, Luis Barragán is among the world’s most celebrated architects of the 20th century. Upon his death in 1988, much of his work was locked away in a Swiss bunker, hidden from the world’s view. In an attempt to resurrect Barragán’s life and art, boundary redefining artist Jill Magid creates a daring proposition that becomes a fascinating artwork in itself – a high-wire act of negotiation that explores how far an artist will go to democratize access to art.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/movies/the-proposal-review.html

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14086-a-new-film-probes-the-legacy-of-mexican-architect-luis-barrag%C3%A1n

EVENT DETAILS:
Date and Location:
Landmark Theatres Kendall Square Cinema
One Kendall Square, at 355 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
June 27, 2019 / 7 PM to 9 PM

Event Program: 
Doors Open: 7:00pm
Showtime: 7:20pm tentative 
Q&A: 8:45-9pm

Tickets:
Students, MIT10 Graduates, and MITArchA Members: $10
Non-Members and Guests:$20

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Join fellow alumni for an evening of art, history and music at the National Portrait Gallery.

The evening is part of ‘America Now: Celebration of Music’, an all-day event taking place at three separate Smithsonian museums with musical performances by Rare Essence, Out of Town Blues Band, DJ Beauty and the Beats, and a special headliner to be announced on June 1. Festive food and drinks are available for purchase. Bar closes at 11:30 p.m., gallery is open to midnight.

We will meet at 5:30 pm in the entrance lobby for a curated tour of the history and architecture of the National Portrait Gallery, the 3rd oldest public building in DC, with viewings of magnificent portraits of George Washington to the Obamas. After the tour, the group is free to roam the gallery and join the music performances and festivities in the Kogod Courtyard of the gallery.

ADMISSION – $10 per person – Tickets can be purchased online at the Registration button below.

DATE & LOCATION
Date: 6/22/2019 to 6/23/2019
Time: 5:30 PM to 11:59 PM
Location: National Portrait Gallery, 8th St. NW at F St. NW, Washington DC

EVENT CONTACTS
Mina Marefat / minamarefat@alum.mit.edu
Jacob Kain  / kain@alum.mit.edu 

EVENT PRICING
MIT Alumni / $10.00
Guests / $10.00

EVENT SUMMARY:
Come meet the leaders and ventures of MITDesignX, the startup accelerator of the School of Architecture and Planning. Learn how SA+P is speeding up innovation in design and the built environment, and be part of a workshop process that will lead to new ideas and development in the realm of housing.

WORKSHOP LEADERS:
Professor Dennis Frenchman, Faculty Director MITdesignX and Director of the MIT Center for Real Estate
Gilad Rosenzweig, Executive Director, MITdesignX

WORKSHOP AGENDA:

Part 1: Presentations
Presentations by founders of 2-3 designX ventures working in the fields of housing, infrastructure, and design adaptation.

Dinner

Part 2: Interactive Workshop
Two-hour workshop led by MITdesignX faculty to brainstorm and develop new ideas and defined problem statements in the realm of housing that can be used to spark new startup ventures. The work in this session will generate a compilation of material to be used in a challenge for students at MIT next Fall. In addition, we also encourage participants to develop new ventures themselves.

Summary and Reception

EVENT DETAILS:

Space is limited to 40 participants and registration is required.

Location: Gensler, 45 Fremont Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA
Date: June 3, 2019
Time: 5:00 - 8:30 PM

Cost:
MITArchA and MITCNC members -- $30
General Admission -- $40

EVENT CONTACTS

Pamela Tang / pcs83@alum.mit.edu
Jacob Kain /kain@alum.mit.edu