City
Design And Development Faculty
Faculty
who have specialized in City Design and Development work in a variety of
private, public and non-profit roles: as urban designers, municipal and
regional planners, architects, and developers, as well as managers of public
programs to improve the environment, advocates for historic preservation
and public art, educators, and designers of urban infrastructure.
Julian
Beinart, M.Arch, MCP (Architecture)
Professor
Beinart’s teaching and research is about the form and design of cities.
He has been a Sir Herbert Baker Rome Scholar, Program Chairman and President
of the International Design Conference in Aspen, one of the founders of
the Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design in Italy, American editor
of Space and Society/Spazio e Societa, a Fellow of the Western Behavioral
Sciences Institute in California, and research director of a Mellon Foundation
study of architectural education in the USA. In the 1960s he produced jazz
concerts and directed design courses in five African countries as part of
a wider study of popular art, exhibited at the ICA in London and the subject
of a short BBC film. His research has been sponsored by the Carnegie, Oppenheimer
and Farfield Foundations as well as by the National Endowment of the Arts.
His work and writing have been published widely and he has lectured in Europe,
the USA, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Recent publications include studies
of the U.S. downtown, 19th century grid form, public/private and history/memory
relationships, and image construction in pre-modern cities. In 1992 and
1994 he was co-chairman of the first two Jerusalem Seminars in Architecture,
recently published by Rizzoli. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban
Design, and in 2000 taught in Jerusalem and Singapore.
He currently heads Cambridge International Design Associates, an urban design
consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1986 he has designed
plans in Jerusalem for the Israel Museum, the Binyanei Ha’ooma Convention
Center, and the Central Government Precinct. He has also been a member of
the international advisory committee for the city and consulted with MOPIC
in Palestine. Other international projects include the St. Petersburg (Russia)
master plan competition, studies of long-term effects of hosting the Olympic
Games (presented in Seoul 1988 and Olympia 1994), and various projects in
Southern Africa. Among recent work are three development projects in the
UAE, a regional plan in Jordan, and the winning entry in the Chung Hsin
village provincial capital competition in Taiwan. In the USA, he worked
on the design of the US Air Force Memorial in Washington, proposals for
the Dade County transportation corridor and Miami International Airport,
plans for the land surrounding Alliance airport in Ft. Worth (the first
non-passenger airport in the world) and the proposed basketball arena development
in Dallas. With Charles Correa he presented proposals for the redesign of
Chandigarh at the 50th anniversary conference of that city in January 1999.
Eran Ben-Joseph, Ph.D. (Planning)
Hayes
Career Development Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning.
Eran Ben-Joseph holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley
and from Chiba National University of Japan. He is the founding principal
of BNBJ (Blank & Ben Joseph), a multidisciplinary planning firm in Tel-Aviv,
Israel. Eran has worked as an environmental planner and landscape architect
in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Professional works
include new towns and residential developments, streetscapes, stream restorations,
parks, and recreation planning. His research and teaching interests are
in site planning technologies, subdivision standards and regulations, and
urban simulation. Eran’s research in site planning encompasses the
emergence of new construction practices and field implementations, as well
as computerized and tangible interfaces, which allow for visualization of
site factors and development impacts. Research in the area of standards
and regulations covers the relationships between infrastructure systems
layouts, such as streets and wastewater, and cities’ physical development
patterns and form. Eran Ben-Joseph is the recent recipient of the MIT Wade
Award for his research work on Representation of Places: Urban Simulation
and The Luminous Planning Table. He is the co-author of the book Streets
and the Shaping of Towns and Cities (McGraw Hill, 1998).
Charles
Correa, (Architecture)
Architect,
planner, activist and theoretician, Charles Correa has emerged as a major
figure in contemporary architecture worldwide. He studied architecture at
the University of Michigan and at MIT. In private practice in Bombay since
1958, his work covers a wide range, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at
the Sabarmati Ashram, to the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and the State
Assembly for Madhya Pradesh – as well as townships and public housing
projects in Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and other cities in India.
Over the last four decades, Correa has done pioneering work on urban issues
and low-cost shelter in the Third World. From 1970-75, he was Chief Architect
for ‘New Bombay’ an urban growth center of 2 million people across
the harbor from the existing city. In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
appointed him Chairman of the National Commission on Urbanization.
One of the few contemporary architects whose projects address not only issues
of architecture but of low-income housing and urban planning as well, his
work has been published in many architectural journals and books, including
the 1987 Mimar and the 1996 Thames & Hudson monographs. He has taught
at universities both in India and abroad, including Harvard, Penn, Tulane
and Washington Universities, and has been the Sir Banister Fletcher Professor
at the University of London, the Albert Bemis Professor at MIT, and the
Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Cambridge.
In 1980 Correa was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Michigan,
and in 1984 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British
Architects, in 1987 the Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Architects,
in 1990 the Gold Medal of the UIA (International Union of Architects), in
1994 the Praemium Imperiale from Japan, and in 1998 The Aga Khan Award for
Architecture.
John de Monchaux, M.Arch U.D. (Architecture
and Planning)
Professor
of Architecture and Planning. Director, SPURS Program. Former Dean, School
of Architecture and Planning, 1981 to 1992. Prior to 1981 John de Monchaux
was principal planner with Kinhill Pty. Ltd., a planning, design, and engineering
firm in Australia. He was previously a principal in the Llewelyn-Davies
firms of architects and planners in the United Kingdom and in the United
States where he was responsible for projects in Australia, Southeast Asia,
the UK, Colombia, Canada, and the USA. This work included the preparation
of the Plan for Milton Keynes in the UK, advocacy design assistance in Watts,
East Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago, a major program for slum upgrading
and new sites and services housing in the Philippines, and urban plans and
environmental impact studies throughout Australia and New Zealand. From
1992 to 1996, while on partial leave from MIT, he served as General Manager
of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a Geneva-based foundation concerned with
the quality of architecture and urban conditions in the Muslim world. He
and his wife, Suzanne de Monchaux, have a consulting partnership in urban
design, research and planning and in this capacity he is currently advising
the Arriyadh Development Authority in Saudi Arabia on long term city development
strategies, urban design and the programming and design of major public
buildings. At MIT he teaches undergraduate subjects on the making of plans
and cities and at the graduate level he co-teaches the urban design studio.
His interests include urban design, implementation strategies, indicators
and measures of city performance, and human issues in the developing world.
He was the founding Chairman of the Boston Civic Design Commission from
1988 to 1992 and has played a key role in the series of Boston Conferences
organized by MIT and The Boston Globe since 1984.
Michael
Dennis, (Architecture)
Michael
Dennis is Professor of Architecture and teaches Urban Design and Theory
of Urban Form in the SM Architecture Studies program. He has also taught
at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Rice and Columbia. He was the 1986 Thomas
Jefferson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, and the
1988 Eero Saarinen Professor of Architecture at Yale. He has been in private
practice in Boston since 1981 and prior to that in Ithaca, New York from
1970. His experience extends over 30 years and includes projects of various
types and scales. The firm’s work has been exhibited and published
nationally and internationally. Much of the firm’s recent work is institutional,
including the Art Museum for the University of California at Santa Barbara,
which received First Prize in a national design competition in 1983. Recently
completed are the Science/Technology Building at Syracuse University and
the first buildings in the extensive plan for Carnegie Mellon University.
The Carnegie Mellon Campus Design won first prize in a major design competition
and received a 1988 Progressive Architecture Urban Design Citation as well
as a 1990 AIA award. The firm’s Precinct Plan for the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles won a 1993 Progressive Architecture Urban
Design Citation. Dennis has also lectured widely and is the author of Court
and Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture (MIT
Press, 1986). Dennis has also been actively involved in research concerning
campus design and planning, and has used the design studio to explore such
issues as the possibility of buildings having their own independent identity
yet relating to the continuity of the place and being a part of the campus
fabric. Over the last few years, work at Arizona State University, Syracuse,
University of Virginia, the University of Southern California, and Carnegie
Mellon University has provided the opportunity for such exploration.
Dennis Frenchman, AIA, M.Arch A.S.,
MCP (Planning)
Dennis
Frenchman is Professor of the Practice of Urban Design in the Department
of Urban Studies and Planning, where he currently directs the City Design
and Development group and chairs the Master of City Planning program. He
is also on the faculty of the MIT Center for Real Estate. He formerly taught
at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has led international programs
and studios in Beijing, Sienna, Italy, Barcelona, Bhutan, Korea and Jerusalem.
He is currently Advisor to President James Wolfenson of the World Bank on
issues of urban livability in developing countries. He is also a former
director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the
National Architectural Accrediting Board, which accredits schools of architecture
in the United States. He holds a Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies
and a Master of City Planning Degree from MIT.
Dennis Frenchman is also a founding principal of ICON architecture, inc., located in Boston with an
international practice in architecture, urban design and planning. His practice
and research focuses on the transformation of older, underutilized areas
of cities, including many nationally significant historic places and regions.
He has a particular interest in the redevelopment of former industrial resources
and has prepared plans for the renewal of textile mill towns, canals, rail
corridors, steel mills, coal and oil fields, shipyards and ports. Among
these, his plans for Lowell National Historical Park and the New York Urban
Cultural Park System have become standards for urban heritage development
in the US. He has also played a major role in the renewal of public housing,
older urban neighborhoods and downtown commercial centers. Projects include
the West Broadway Comprehensive Renewal Program, a national model for redesign
of severely distressed public housing. Among numerous awards, the American
Planning Association has three times cited his work as the most outstanding
in the US.
Tunney Lee (Planning)
Senior Lecturer and Professor Emeritus. Head,
DUSP 1986-1990. Prior to MIT, Tunney Lee held the positions
of Chief of Planning and Design at the Boston Redevelopment
Authority and was also Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts
Division of Capital Planning and Operations. His research
and teaching at MIT has focused on the experience of neighborhood
and city planning in Boston and Hong Kong. He also has a special
interest in high density urban settings.
J. Mark Schuster, Ph.D. (Planning)
J. Mark Schuster, Professor of Urban Cultural Policy, is a public policy
analyst who specializes in the analysis of government policies and programs
with respect to the arts, culture, and urban design. Mark is currently directing
a research project entitled "Mapping State Cultural Policy," which
is documenting the cultural policy of Washington State. Other recent research
projects have included: "The Cultural Landscape and Regional Development,"
developing the concept of a regional development plan based on the cultural
heritage of the Llobregat River Valley in Catalunya (Spain); "The Information
Infrastructure for Cultural Policy," documenting the structure of cultural
policy research, information, and communication in a variety of countries;
and "Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging the City," investigating
the role of temporary events and phenomena on the image of the city.
Professor Schuster is the author of Informing Cultural Policy: The Information
and Research Infrastructure; Preserving the Built Heritage-Tools for Implementation
(with John de Monchaux); Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts
Policy (with Alan Feld and Michael O'Hare); Who's to Pay for the Arts? The
International Search for Models of Support (with Milton Cummings); Design
Review: The View from the Architecture Profession; the Geography of Participation
in the Arts and Culture; and The Audience for American Art Museums; in addition
to many articles and reports. He has served as a consultant to a wide variety
of organizations in the cultural field including the Arts Council of Great
Britain, the Irish Arts Council, the UNESCO World Commission on Culture
and Development, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hungarian Ministry
of Culture, the Canada Council, the Council of Europe, the London Arts Board,
and National Public Radio. He is Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural
Economics and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal
of Cultural Policy. He is a member and former chairman of the International
Alliance of First Night Celebrations, and has served as the Director of
the Northeast Mayors' Institute on City Design.
Susan, Silberberg MCP (Planning)
Susan Silberberg, Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning is an urban design
and planning consultant with fifteen years of experience in architecture
and urban planning education and practice. She is a Senior Associate of
Community Partners Consultants, Inc., based in Medford, Massachusetts. She
consults to community-based organizations, municipalities, public agencies,
foundations, cultural organizations, and businesses. Her projects relate
to urban design, community economic development, and community cultural
development. In June 2002 she completed a master plan for the newly designated
Arts District in Worcester, MA. The plan won a Gold Medal designation from
the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Best Comprehensive Plan Honorable
Mention from the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association
in 2002.is currently leading a collaborative effort to conduct a multi-displinary
planning study of the reopening of the Ulster Canal. The Canal, constructed
in the early 1930's, was one of many Irish inland waterway routes that allowed
coal, linen, and other goods to be transported to port. Closed since 1931,
the 50-mile long stretch of canal route crosses the border between the Rebublic
of Ireland and Northern Ireland in many places and offers an exceptional
opportunity for cross-border and trans-national cooperation and collaboration.
Anne Whiston Spirn, , M.L.A. (Architecture
and Planning)
Anne
Whiston Spirn is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT.
She received the B.A. from Radcliffe College and the M.L.A. from the University
of Pennsylvania. Before coming to MIT, Spirn taught at the University of
Pennsylvania and Harvard. Prior to teaching, Spirn worked at Wallace McHarg
Roberts and Todd on diverse projects, including plans for Woodlands New
Community in Houston, the Toronto Central Waterfront, and a comprehensive
plan for Sanibel, Florida. Her first book, The Granite Garden: Urban Nature
and Human Design, won the President’s Award of Excellence from the
American Society of Landscape Architects. The Language of Landscape (Yale,
1998), extends the ideas presented in The Granite Garden and argues that
the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors. Spirn’s
essays on Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, C. Th. Sorensen, and
Sven-Ingvar Andersson have appeared since 1994 in books edited by others.
Since 1984 she has worked in inner-city neighborhoods on the design of community
open space and urban landscape plans. She is director of the West Philadelphia
Landscape Project, a community development program that integrates teaching,
research, and community service, which has been recognized as a model project
by the White House Millennium Council. Spirn has received fellowships from
the Woodrow Wilson Center, Bunting Institute, California Humanities Research
Institute, and NEA. In November 1998, the Philadelphia School District named
her Person of the Month for the Mill Creek Project, a five-year collaboration
with teachers and students in an inner-city school.
Terry S. Szold, Planning, M.R.P. (Planning)
Terry
Szold is an Adjunct Associate Professor and serves as the Department's Practitioner
and educator in Land Use and Growth Management. She is the principal of
Community Planning Solutions, a land use planning consulting firm. Present
clients include municipal and state planning agencies, non-profit and private
development interests, and law firms. She served as Planning Director for
the Town of Burlington, Massachusetts, from 1984-1987. She is frequently
a featured panelist at numerous seminars and conferences focusing on land
use regulation, smart growth, and the evolution of suburbia.
Terry Szold has been involved in a variety of land use planning projects
throughout the Boston metropolitan region. She recently assisted the Town
of Brookline, MA, with the first phase of its zoning update program, and
provided guidance to the Town of Wellesley, MA, on the "mansionization"
and teardown trend. Her article "What Difference Has the ADA Made?"
was featured in the April 2002 issue of Planning Magazine. Her work on "smart
growth" was highlighted in a session at the American Planning Association
2002 National Conference in Chicago. She has co-edited a collection entitled
"Smart Growth: Form and Consequences,” to be published in June
of 2002 by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Lawrence Vale, PhD. (Planning)
Lawrence
Vale is Chair of the Departmentof Urban Studies and Planning, Professor
of Urban Design and MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Dr. Vale holds degrees from
Amherst College, MIT, and Oxford University, and has taught at MIT since
1988. His research and teaching are devoted to interpreting the history,
politics, and sociology of urban design, and his writing investigates the
relationship between urban design and the broader societal processes of
conflict and consensus by which power relations among groups or individuals
are altered or sustained.
Professor Vale is the author of four books examining government-sponsored
environments, including Architecture, Power, and National Identity (Yale,
1992), which received the 1994 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society
of Architectural Historians. His most recent work has examined American
public housing. He served as a consultant to the National Commission on
Severely Distressed Public Housing in 1992, and his articles on the subject
have appeared in numerous journals and books. His book, From the Puritans
to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (Harvard, 2000) received
the 2001 "Best Book in Urban Affairs" award from the Urban Affairs
Association. A second volume, Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century
of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods is due in Fall 2002. His research
has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and he has received the 1997
Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
and a 1999 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association
and the journal Places. He is Co-Editor, with Sam Bass Warner, Jr., of Imaging
the City: Continuing Struggles and New Directions (Center for Urban Policy
Research, 2001), and co-director of MIT's "Resilient City" project,
an investigation of historical and contemporary efforts by urban citizens
to recover from sudden traumatic events.
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