Discipline Group Lectures
Building Technology — Computation — HTC — Aga Khan — Visual Arts
Building Technology
Monday, March 10, 12:30 - 2:00pm, Room 7-431 (AVT)
Jelena Srebric, Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University,
will present
"Passive Building Envelope Solutions for Sustainable Housing "
ABSTRACT
With a dramatic increase in human population, built environments are playing a central role in energy consumption and environmental pollution. A powerful way to reduce energy consumption, lifecycle costs, and greenhouse gas emissions is to incorporate sustainable design practices in the initial planning phase of the building design and follow with innovative building construction and maintenance. Building envelope is a place where many of sustainable strategies can be implemented, but the lack of clear design guidelines can either reduce the effectiveness or completely discourage the use of passive building envelope solutions. Many recent research studies are geared towards bridging this gap and enabling climate-dependent performance assessment of different passive building envelopes. The present talk will cover research results on thermal behavior of green roofs and strawbale walls as well as natural ventilation of wall cavities and indoor spaces.
JELENA SREBIC, Ph.D.
Dr. Srebric is an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering and an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University (PSU). She holds a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from the University of Belgrade. Dr. Srebric conducts research and teaches in the field of building energy consumption, air quality, and ventilation methods. She designed and built a state-of-the-art environmental chamber facility at PSU for energy and indoor air quality studies. Her work is sponsored by several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She is a recipient of both NSF and NIOSH’s career awards. She published extensively in the field, and received several research awards including one from the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences. Dr. Srebric is an editorial board member of five international journals, and an associate editor of HVAC&R Research Journal published by the American Society of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Her work in ASHARE was recognized with an outstanding service award.
This lecture is sponsored by the MIT Building Technology Program. Light refreshments will be served. Please contact Prof. Marilyne Andersen [mand@mit.edu] for more information.
3/17/2008
Dan Arons
Sustainability (In) Practice
3/31/2008
Matt Franks
ARUP Lighting: Selected Works (tentative title)
4/7/2008
Detlef Westphalen:
Greater efficiency, more comfort, less emissions----AC/Refrigeration development at TIAX
Computation
These talks will take place in room (3-133) from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. on Fridays.
We hope to see you there.
2/15/08
Stylianos Dritsas
Associate Principal, Computational Geometry, KPF
2/29/2008
Phil Bernstein
Autodesk Vice President, Industry Strategy & Relations
3/18/2008
Hanif Kara
Co-founder and director of Adams Kara Taylor
4/4/2008
William Fawcett
4/11/2008
Alise Upitis
PhD Candidate, Computation Group, Architecture Department, MIT
4/18/2008
Aaron Sprecher
Co-founder and partner of Open Source Architecture
4/28/2008
Chuck Eastman
Professor and Director of the College of Architecture Ph.D. Program
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta., Georgia, USA
History, Theory + Criticism
3/3/2008
11:00AM, Building 7, Room 431 (AVT Room)
Department of Architecture, Art History Lecture Series: 18th/19th Century Europe (and its ragged edges)
"Duty and Happiness: Family Portraiture and Politics during the
French Revolution"
Amy Freund, Postdoctoral fellow, CASVA, National Gallery of Art
For more information, contact htc@mit.edu
3/4/2008
Spring HTC Forum Series
6:30 p.m. in 3-133
Through her work on housing in America and French colonial urbanism, Professor Wright helped to broaden architectural discourse in the 1980s and 1990s, drawing attention to the political and historical dimensions of the built environment at a time when such concerns were often overlooked. More recently, in addition to her pursuit of questions of global modernism and continued presence at Columbia at both the M.Arch and Ph.D levels, she has brought her scholarship to a new public audience as one of the hosts of the PBS series History Detectives.
Her lecture at HTC Forum, "USA: The Strands of Synthesis" draws from her forthcoming book, USA, to be distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
3/10/2008
Kristel Smentek
Monday, March 10
11 am, 7-431 (AVT)
"The Collector's Cut, or why Pierre-Jean Mariette
Tore Up his Raphael and Put It Back Together Again."
3/11/2008
Ting Chang
Tuesday, March 11
12 noon, 7-431 (AVT)
"Travels and Transports: Making the Musée Guimet of Asian Arts in France"
3/14/2008
Matthew Hunter
Friday, March 14
12 noon, 7-431 (AVT)
“The Wherewithal of Art and Science: Peter Lely, Robert Hooke, and Experiment”
3/18/2008
Aruna D'Souza
Tuesday, March 18
12 noon, 7-431 (AVT)
"Strange Bedfellows: Vallotton, Marriage, and
the Dreyfus Affair"
The Audio Visualization Theatre (AVT) is located in front of the dome on the fourth floor of Building 7.
Aga Khan Program
4/28/2008
Nadeem Omar Tarar
"Framings of the Tradition: The Career of Miniature Painting in South Asia"
(http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/lecturescurrent.htm)
Abstract
In the contemporary curatorial practices and art historical discourses, miniature painting has been variously invoked as Persian miniature, Mughal painting, Indo-Persian painting, Rajput painting and Pahari painting, to cite a few prefix, pointing to its courtly origin as well as a specific form, iconography and technique of execution. In the course of its institutional career in South Asia, from its eminence in the Mughal court as the imperial art of book illustration to its fall as a handicraft in British colonial period; its appropriation by Indian nationalist intelligentsia in search of distinct modern cultural identity to its national resurrection in the post-independence period as the traditional fine art of Pakistani Islamic republic to its post-modern reinvention as contemporary art practice, which is, - to use Homi Bhabha's words, 'the re-evaluation of tradition to the extent that tradition is no longer opposed to modernity'- offers penetrating clues to the taxonomic shifts that have taken place in the construction of Indian painting in the past five hundred years.
Biography
Nadeem Omar Tarar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, National College of Arts, Lahore. He holds a PhD in Art History and Theory, from the University of New South Wales Sydeny, Australia and a MA in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. He has also been affiliated with School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London as a Post-doctoral Researcher. Currently, he is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT, USA.
He has co-edited and introduced the book "Official" Chronicle of the Mayo School of Arts, the Formative Years under John Lockwood Kipling, 1875-1883 (Lahore, 2002). He is author of Anthropology in Pakistan: the State of Discipline in State of Social Sciences in Pakistan , (Islamabad, 2005). He has also published in Economic and Political Weekly , International Journal of Art and Design Education , and Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore. His forthcoming publications include a book on From Primitive Artisans to Modern Artists: Colonialism and Art Education in Punjab.
Visual Arts Program
3/3/2008
7 - 9 pm
ZONES OF EMERGENCY - Monday Night @ VAP lecture series
Networks, Tactics, Breakdown
Mark Tribe
MIT Visual Arts Program
Location: N51-337, (Joan Jonas Performance Hall)
Video blog: http://zonesofemergency.net
Mark Tribe will present a selection of projects, such as the Port Huron Project, that explore how tactical practices and public interventions use the internet and other networks as a means to instigate political discourse and public collaboration. This work addresses zones of emergency in a broad sense, raising issues related to the psychological condition of being politically oppressed. Mark Tribe will bring his view of participatory networks online and off and the potentials of these techno-cultural arrangements to produce social and political change.
Mark Tribe is an internationally renowned artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics. He is the co-author, with Reena Jana, of "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006). His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and Gigantic Art Space in New York City. He has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05. As the founder of Rhizome.org (in 1996), an online resource for new media artists, he now chairs the Rhizome.org board of directors. Tribe received his MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990, where he currently serves as Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies. The focus of his teaching is on digital art, curating, open-source culture, radical media, and surveillance. He splits his time between Providence and New York City.
Free and open to the public.
Visual Arts Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Directions
The MIT Visual Arts Program is located above the MIT Museum. Enter through the grey door on Front Street and take the elevator to the third floor. Exit to your left and go down the ramp. The Joan Jonas Performance Hall is located on the right.
By Public Transportation
Take the Red Line to Central Square. Walk four blocks along Massachusetts Avenue towards Boston and the Charles River, or take the #1 bus to the Front Street stop.
