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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 of Architecture
Julian Beinart's teaching, research and
practice is about the form and design of cities. He’s been a
Herbert Baker Rome Scholar, President of the IDCA, a founder of ILAUD in Italy,
American editor of Space&
Society, a Fellow of the WBSI, and Director of the Mellon Foundation
study of architectural education.
In the 1960s his studies of African popular art and jazz were the
subject of a BBC film. Recent
publications include studies of the Olympic Games, the U.S. downtown, 19th century
grid form, history/memory relationships, image construction in pre-modern
cities, and urban resilience. He co-chaired the first two Jerusalem
Architecture Seminars and has worked in Jerusalem,
and with MOPIC in Palestine. Other projects include work in Russia, Southern Africa, the UAE, Jordan, Taiwan
and Chandigarh (India). In the US, work includes projects in Washington, Miami
and Alliance Airport region in Texas.
Currently, he is on a team designing the Brain and Cognitive
Sciences building at MIT.
Eran Ben-Joseph, Ph.D. (Planning)
Associate
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning.
Eran Ben-Joseph graduated from the University
of California at Berkeley and from Chiba
National University of Japan. His interests include urban and physical
design, standards and regulations, site and landscape planning and urban
simulation. His recent books are The Code of the City: Standards
and the Hidden Language of Place Making (MIT Press, 2005), the anthology Regulating Place:
Standards and the Shaping of Urban America (with Terry Szold, Routledge 2005).
He is the founding principal of BNBJ, a planning firm in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and E. Ben-Joseph
Consultants of Acton, Ma. He previously taught at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, and has led national and international
multi-disciplinary projects in Singapore,
Barcelona, and Washington DC
among other places. He is the recent recipient of the Wade Award
for his work on Representation of Places - a collaboration project with
MIT Media Lab as well as MITs Graduate Teaching
Award.
Alan Berger, M.L.A
(Planning)
Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape
Architecture
Alan
Berger's main area of interest focuses on landscape and urbanization.
From abandoned mine pits, mountains of slag and pools of cyanide, to
vacant land, landfills, military installations, infrastructure networks,
and places associated with low- density urbanization, Berger's research
and practice discovers new ways to see, measure, and act on highly
disturbed sites and landscape systems earmarked for adaptive reuse by
society. His work emphasizes the link between our consumption of natural
resources, and the waste and destruction of landscape at regional and
local scales. Alan’s recent publications include: Designing the
Reclaimed Landscape, January 1, 2008, London:
Taylor & Francis, Drosscape: Wasting Land
in Urban America Princeton Architectural Press, April 2006, Nansha
Coastal City:
Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta Alan Berger and Margaret
Crawford, eds., Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2006, Reclaiming
the American West 2002, Princeton Architectural Press
Charles Correa, M.Arch (Architecture)
Farwell Bemis Professor of
Architecture
Charles
Correa studied at the University
of Michigan and at
MIT. 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. Correa has pioneered work
on urban issues and low-cost shelter in the Third
World. From 1970 -
75, he was Chief Architect for 'New Bombay' center of 2 million people.
In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed him Chair of the National
Commission on Urbanization. His work has been published in numerous
journals and books. He has been
the Sir Banister Fletcher Professor at the University
of London, the A. Farwell Bemis
Professor at MIT, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Cambridge. He has received the Gold
Medal of the International Union of Architects, 1990; the Praemium Imperiale from Japan,
1994; and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1998.
Alexander
D’Hooghe, Ph.D. (Architecture)
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism
Alexander
D’Hooghe is primarily concerned with the
articulation of form and its theory as it outlines today’s myths of
the ideal city. The various templates of the urban project, formerly
called urban design, are central to his work as an academic at
MIT and as an architect / urbanist with
his firm ORG, based in the Netherlands. His book Public Form (2005) outlines the
definition of a particular less-studied template for urban interventions,
namely the group form as a symbolic form of fundamentalist pluralism.
Other recent projects have included a study on Siberian science cities
(published in AA files), a design investigation for the urbanism of the
European Union in Brussels, and various projects under construction,
which serve to translate the templates studied into an actual
reality. D’Hooghe
has studied/worked with Marcel Smets, Rem Koolhaas, and Wiel Arets. He holds
degrees from the Berlage Institute, the University of Leuven,
and the Harvard
Design School.
John
de Monchaux, M.Arch
U.D. (Architecture and Planning)
Professor
of Architecture and Planning, Emeritus
John de Monchaux studied architecture at Sydney University and urban design at
Harvard's GSD. His work has included planning assistance to community
organizations in Watts, East Los Angeles, Detroit
and Chicago; a major program for slum
upgrading and new housing in the Philippines;
and urban plans throughout Australia. From 1981 to 1992
he served as Dean of the School
of Architecture and
Planning. He served as General
Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a foundation concerned with
the quality of architecture and urban conditions in the Muslim world.
From 1996 to 2004 he directed MIT's SPURS/Humphrey Program. His interests include city design,
implementation, measures of city performance, and settlement issues in
the developing world. He was the founding Chairman of the Boston Civic
Design Commission from 1988 to 1992 and has recently been a Senior
Visiting Professor at the School
of Architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Michael
Dennis, M.Arch (Architecture)
Professor
of Architecture.
Michael Dennis teaches Urban Design, Theory, and Urban Housing in the SMArchS program. He has also taught at Cornell,
Harvard, Princeton, Rice and Columbia.
He has been the Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia,
and the Eero Saarinen Professor at Yale. Dennis
has lectured widely and authored Court and Garden: From the French Hôtel to the City of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, 1986),
as well as numerous articles. He also has an award-winning architecture
and urban design practice in Boston.
His firm's work focuses on campus plans and buildings, and has been
published nationally and internationally, including: the Art Museum for
UC Santa Barbara; the Science/Technology building at Syracuse University;
the Carnegie Mellon campus design and buildings; performing arts centers
for Emory, Ball State, and UNC Chapel Hill; and master plans for USC,
Ohio State, and Texas A&M. In design are projects at Miami,
OSU, Maryville, and Michigan.
Dennis
Frenchman, AIA, M.Arch A.S., MCP (Planning)
Professor
of Urban Design and Planning.
Dennis
Frenchman is Director of the City Design and Development group and also
on the faculty of the Center for Real Estate. He is a founder of ICON architecture in
Boston,
an international architecture, urban design and planning firm. He was
External Advisor on urban livability to World Bank President James Wolfenson, and has served on the boards of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the National
Architectural Accrediting Board. His work focuses on the transformation
of underutilized areas of cities, including many significant world
heritage sites, and he has played a major role in the renewal of urban
neighborhoods, housing, and downtown centers. He is also an expert on the
application of advanced communications and media to city design,
consulting in Europe and Asia on
large-scale technology centered developments. His work has been widely
published and citied three times as the most outstanding in the US
by the American Planning Association.
Tunney
Lee (Planning)
Professor of Architecture and
City Planning, Emeritus
Tunney
Lee is former Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and
the former Head of the Department of Architecture, Chinese
University of Hong
Kong. He served as 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 process of community-based design
and he has led many studios involving Boston
area neighborhoods including East Boston,
Fenway, and Alewife. He has a special interest
in development of high-density urban settings. Most recently, his
research has focused on urban development of the Pearl River Delta in China,
including land use planning and new infrastructure. He teaches the
Planning Studio in the spring.
Carlo Ratti,
Ph.D.
Research
scientist and director of the SENSEable City
Laboratory.
An architect and engineer by education. Carlo Ratti
teaches at the MIT, where he directs the SENSEable
City Laboratory, a new research initiative between DUSP and the Media
Lab. Carlo is also founding partner and director of carlorattiassociati,
a rapidly growing architectural practice that was established in Turin, Italy, in 2002; the practice
is currently involved in a number of architectural schemes, both
nationally and internationally. In 2004 the work of carlorattiassociati
was selected for exhibition at the Venice Biennale as one of the top
emerging Italian practices. Carlo previously held academic appointments
at Harvard University,
the University
of Cambridge and
the Ecole des Ponts
et Chaussées. A junior fellow of the Aspen
Institute, he has co-authored four patents and over forty scientific
publications. Carlo contributes articles on architecture to the magazines
Domus,
Casabella,
Abitare and the Italian newspapers La Stampa and
Il Sole 24 Ore (Domenica).
Adele Naudé Santos
FAIA, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning and
Dean, School of Architecture and Planning
Adèle Naudé
Santos earned the AA Diploma from the Architectural Association (London), MAUD from Harvard
University, and MCP and MArch from the University of Pennsylvania. As an educator, she has taught at the University of California
at Berkeley, Rice
University, and Harvard University;
was chair of the architecture department at the University
of Pennsylvania; and was
founding dean of the School of Architecture at the University
of California at San Diego. Her teaching and research focus on the
design of housing environments and collaborative urban problem
solving. As an award-winning
practitioner and principal in the San Francisco-based firm Santos
Prescott and Associates, she is recognized for her sculptural, spatially
inventive designs and intensely livable, environmentally responsive
spaces. Her professional projects
include affordable and luxury housing, arts centers, children’s
centers, civic institutions, and urban planning.
Richard Sennett
Bemis
Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies
Richard
Sennett is School Professor of Sociology at the LSE and Bemis Visiting
Professor of Social Sciences at MIT.
In the LSE, he teaches in the Cities Programme
and trains doctoral students in the sociology of culture. At MIT, he teaches urban studies and
runs a workshop on craftsmanship.
His three most recent books are studies of modern capitalism: The Culture of the New Capitalism
[Yale, 2006], Respect in an Age of
Inequality, [Penguin, 2003] and The
Corrosion of Character, [Norton, 1998]. He is currently writing a
book on craftsmanship. Professor Sennett has been awarded the Amalfi and the Ebert prizes for sociology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of the Arts,
and the Academia Europea. He is past president of the American
Council on Work and the former Director of the New York Institute for the
Humanities.
Susan
Silberberg, MCP (Planning)
Lecturer in
Urban Design and Planning.
Susan Silberberg is an architect, urban designer, and planner. She
consults to community based organizations, municipalities, public
agencies, foundations, and cultural groups to teach practicum-based
courses. She has consulted to
UNESCO World Heritage Sites, museums, and municipalities. In 2002 she
completed a master plan for the Arts District in Worcester, MA. This work received awards from the
American Planning Association as well as the Massachusetts Cultural
Council. She also led efforts to create a”20/20 Vision for Concord, NH”
that won a 2002 Congress for New Urbanism Charter Award. Her most recent efforts have focused on
waterfront planning in the City of Boston. She completed a citywide study of
public uses of the waterfront for the Boston Redevelopment Authority in
2004. In 2005 she directed a study
and waterfront activation plan for the Charlestown Navy Yard. This plan provides an interpretive and
urban design framework for the creation of an active public Charlestown
waterfront.
Anne Whiston
Spirn, M.L.A. (Architecture and Planning)
Professor of
Landscape Architecture and Planning.
Anne Whiston Spirn
received a B.A. from Radcliffe College and M.L.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Books include The Granite Garden:
Urban Nature and Human Design,
which won the President's Award of Excellence from the American Society
and The Language of Landscape. She
is director of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project -- integrating
teaching, research, and community service -- cited as a "Model of
Best Practice" at a White House summit in March 1999 for forty
leading "Scholars and Artists in Public life." Spirn has received fellowships from the Woodrow
Wilson Center, Bunting Institute, California Humanities Research
Institute, and NEA. She has been honored by the Philadelphia School
District for the Mill Creek Project, a collaboration with inner city teachers and students,
and in 2001, she received the prestigious International Cosmos Prize for
a lifetime of research contributing to the "harmonious co-existence
of nature and mankind.”
Terry S. Szold, Planning, M.R.P. (Planning)
Adjunct
Associate Professor.
Terry Szold, MRP, is Adjunct Associate Professor of Land Use Panning and
principal of Community Planning Solutions. She has more than 20 years of
experience in land use, strategic, and comprehensive planning. She was
Planning Director for the Town of Burlington, Massachusetts, from 1988 to
1994, and served in a variety of senior planning positions in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She co-edited two
recent books: Smart Growth: Form
and Consequences, published by The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
in 2002, and, with Eran Ben-Joseph, Regulating
Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, published by Routledge Press in 2005. Her article, "Mansionization
and Its Discontents: Planners and the Challenge of Regulating Monster
Homes," was published in the Journal of the American Planning
Association, in spring, 2005. Ms. Szold's consulting work includes the
preparation of smart growth and mixed use zoning regulations in various
cities and towns in the New England
region.
Lawrence Vale, S.M.Arch.S., D.Phil.
Professor
of Urban Design and MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Lawrence
Vale is Head of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and
holds degrees from Amherst College (B.A.), M.I.T. (S.M.Arch.S.),
and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.).
Vale is the author or editor of six books examining urban design
and housing. These include four
award-winning volumes: Architecture,
Power, and National Identity (1992); From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors
(2000); Reclaiming Public Housing
(2002); and The Resilient
City: How Modern Cities Recover
From Disaster (ed., with Thomas Campanella, 2005). His awards and honors include a
Rhodes Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Spiro Kostof Book Award for Architecture and Urbanism from
the Society of Architectural Historians, the "Best Book in Urban
Affairs" Award from the Urban Affairs Association, the Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning, an EDRA/Places Award for “Place
Research,” and the John M. Corcoran Award for Community Investment.
Chris Zegras, Ph.D. (Planning)
Assistant Professor of Transportation Planning
Christopher Zegras' research interests lie at the nexus of urban
transportation, land development, and environmental impacts, with a
particular focus on the world's less industrialized regions. Before
returning to DUSP in September 2002, Chris worked as a Research Associate
at MIT's Laboratory for Energy & the Environment. He also spent 6
years with the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) in Washington, DC
and Santiago de Chile. At MIT, Chris has co-taught a course on Urban
Transportation, Land Use and Environment in Latin
America (11.943J, Spring 2002) and he was the graduate
instructor for the Santiago Urban Planning Studio (11.942, Spring 2003).
He has also been the teaching assistant for the MCP core course,
Quantitative Reasoning and Statistical Methods for Planning (11.220). Zegras holds a BA in Economics and Spanish from Tufts University, and a Masters in City
Planning and a Masters of Science in Transportation, both from MIT.
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