The group's challenge is innovative use of computation for solving problems stemmed in contexts of architectural design practice. MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), TATA Fellows Program (water, environment, energy, food,design).Īrchitecture Representation and Computationįounded in 1996, the Architecture Representation and Computation Group sponsors a wide range of education and research activities to students and visiting scholars at MIT's Department of Architecture.National academies of science and environmental design (water, environment, hazards, design).Aga Khan Development Network (architecture, landscape, hazards, heritage, water, design).Research projects include collaborative initiatives with the: This research may lead to a new high-performance thermal insulation product.Īga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT ( conducts a broad program of research on architectural history, landscape, water, hazards, and university campus design in the Islamic world. The aerogel samples perform better than commercially available products while requiring less material meanwhile, the innovative panel design provides great structural support with minimal impact to the conductivity. Leon Glicksman (PI), Lorna Gibson and Gang Chen is developing high-performance thermal insulation panels based on a formulation of silica aerogels developed at MIT.
What is at stake is the very legitimacy of architecture in the 21st century. A(U)L is the pedagogical wing of O(U)R, the project-oriented studio run by Mark Jarzombek and Vikram Prakash.Īerogel Insulation Through the DuPont MIT Alliance (DMA), an interdisciplinary team led by Profs. It is only by first speculating on architecture at various levels - including at the scale of the global - that tomorrow’s architects can begin to imagine architecture as anything more than a limited solution to local exigencies. The work that the lab promotes operates outside of subject-object and theory-practice dualities. The ARCHITECTURE (UN)CERTAINTY LAB thus identifies the classroom and seminar room, the sites of historically situated complex critical thinking, as the renewed locus of architectural education for the 21st century.
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The planetary scale of life today has resulted in a radical enlargement of what it means to think architecture in the 21st century. At the same time, environmental urgencies, political entanglements, algorithmic interfaces, and cultural paradoxes keep multiplying leaving studio-focused pedagogies overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of the task. The tendency has been to reduce architecture to problem solving within the limited spectrum of professional competencies. The ARCHITECTURE (UN)CERTAINTY LAB is dedicated to challenging architecture's epistemological and design capacities and bring the conversation back into a world of immersive ambiguities.