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Leah Talatinian
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A solo show concurrently on view at MIT, Civic Floor, builds on Tieu’s investigations into a banal genre of psychological discipline: the hostility, violence and paranoia embedded in supposedly neutral bureaucratic spaces and architectures.
Installed: May 7 & 8, 2011 Location: Charles River Join the activities from 7–10 pm! Light Drift is an interactive lighting installation that will appear along the Memorial Drive side of the Charles River and draw viewers into a playful engagement with … Continued
Wind Screen By Meejin Yoon, Associate Professor of Architecture April – May, 2011 Green Building 54 Imagine a shimmering curtain of light suspended in the archway below the Green Building: an architectural-scale screen of micro-turbines that simultaneously generates and consumes energy … Continued
voltaDom By Skylar Tibbits, Lecturer, Department of Architecture February – May, 2011 Passageway between Buildings 56 and 66 A vaulted passageway as you’ve never seen it: think Escher and Gaudi, as well as the vaulted ceilings of Gothic cathedrals. Curves … Continued
Overliner By Joel Lamere, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, and Cynthia Gunadi, co-founder of Gunadi Lamere Design March 2011 – June 2013 Whitaker Building E25 Origami on a large scale, Overliner highlights the architectural idiosyncrasies of a public space, transforming a familiar and busy passageway … Continued
Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House By Nick Gelpi, Lecturer, Department of Architecture May 7 – 8, 2011 Building 14 Lawn A freestanding pavilion, created by flexing two dimensions into three, this house deploys a fabrication system used to create a membrane, which … Continued
SKY Event By Otto Piene, Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies May 7, 2011 / 7 – 10:00 pm Killian Court Rising above the Great Dome of MIT, immense, inflatable stars soared over Killian … Continued
(now (now(now))): the Infinite Time Capsule By Eric Rosenbaum and Charles DeTar, graduate students in Media Arts and Sciences April 2011 School of Architecture and Planning, 4th floor, and Media Lab, 5th floor Invisible echoes of the past constantly reverberate in … Continued
MIT Mood Meter By Javier Hernandez and M. Ehsan Hoque, graduate students of Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture March–April 2011 Locations: Stratton Student Center, Infinite Corridor Building 8, Stata Center Student Street, Media Lab and viewed on the project website, MIT Mood Meter MIT … Continued
Bibliodoptera By Elena Jessop and Peter Torpey, graduate students in Media Arts and Sciences January 2011–May 2012 Hayden Library Courtyard Corridor A cloud of vellum butterflies, newly emerged from the chrysalis of MIT’s diverse library pages, floats above in the … Continued
Maxwell’s Dream: Painting with Light By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg, graduate students in Architecture May 3–June 4, 2011 Infinite Corridor Community Lounge 10 Maxwell’s Dream is an art installation that allows observers to play with a magnetic field … Continued
Gradated Field By Kyle Coburn, Karina Silvester and Yihyun Lim, graduate students in the Department of Architecture May 2011 Walker Memorial Lawn Wander through a field of enticing white plaster mounds located along the river. Poured into thin latex molds, … Continued
Night of Numbers By Praveen Subramani, graduate student in Media Arts and Sciences, and Anna Kotova, undergraduate student in Architecture April 2011 Wiesner Building Plaza E15, façade of the Landau Building 66 Night of Numbers is a dynamic lighting installation … Continued
aFloat By Otto Ng, graduate student in Architecture at MIT with Ben Regnier, Dena Molnar, and Arseni Zaitsev, graduate students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design May 7, 2011 MIT Chapel aFloat is an interactive installation at the MIT Chapel … Continued
Inflatables By Kyle Barker, Juan Jofre, Nick Polansky and Jorge Amaya, graduate students in Architecture May 6–8, 2011 Lobby of the William Barton Rogers Building 7 With Inflatables, a network of silver nylon balloons in the lobby of the William Barton Rogers … Continued
IceWall By Yushiro Okamoto and Kian Yam, graduate students in the Department of Architecture January–February, 2011 Killian Court MIT150 celebrates past innovation and achievement, while acting as a catalyst for the next generation. In this spirit, IceWall plants a new future, even … Continued
Chroma District By Eyal Shahar and Akito van Troyer, graduate students in MIT’s Media Arts and Sciences May 6–8, 2011 The intersection of Ames and Main Streets Chroma District consists of special lanterns hung from trees near the David H. Koch … Continued
String Tunnel By Yuna Kim, Kelly Shaw and Travis Williams, graduate students in Architecture April 25–May 8 2011 Dreyfus Building bridge, Building 18 Although the path from Kendall Square to the main campus is familiar to students, faculty and staff, visitors … Continued
SOFT Rockers By Sheila Kennedy, Professor of the Practice of Architecture April 25 – May 8, 2011 Killian Court Recharge yourself and your electronics while relaxing with friends outdoors in Killian Court. SOFT Rockers are smart, clean energy-charging stations disguised as outdoor rocking … Continued
Liquid Archive by Nader Tehrani, Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture, and Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor and Mitsui Career Development Chair of the Department of Architecture May 7–8, 2011 / 7–10:00 pm The Charles River Liquid Archive, … Continued
Dis(Course)4 By Craig Boney, James Coleman and Andrew Manto, graduate students in the Department of Architecture (Course 4) April–May, 2011 Stairwell of Building 3 A stairwell transformed by a shimmering conduit designed to inspire delight, wonder and communication between the … Continued
LightBridge By Susanne Seitinger, researcher, and Pol Pla I Conesa, graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences May 7–8, 2011 Harvard Bridge In 1916, MIT crossed the river from its original location in Boston’s Back Bay to Cambridge, … Continued
