Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library
Cynthia Stewart
Wed Jan 28, 06-07:30pm, Boston Public Librar, Dartmouth Street entrance
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Put on your walking shoes and take a tour the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one America’s architectural treasures. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1895, the magnificent Renaissance Revival building marries art with architecture. In addition to the mosaics, wall paintings, and murals, you'll see features made of nearly 20 varieties of marble. View the murals by Pierre Puvis de Chauvannes, John Singer Sargent, and also see the work of Augustus St. Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, and Daniel Chester French among others.
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 1-12, x3-9723, stewart@mit.edu
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Sustainable Cities Workshop
Philip Sheehy, Masahiro Sugiyama, Xiaomin Mou, Shruti Chandrasekhar
Schedule: TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
We will take a hands-on approach to understanding what it means for a city to be sustainable. To tackle this broad topic, we will focus our efforts on understanding and exploring how the City of Cambridge operates. The results of this workshop will be presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the World Student Community for Sustainable Development with a theme of "Sustainable Cities." Our planned activities include: (1)Aiding in the initial steps of implementing the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan: residential energy use; (2) Investigating MBTA plans for expansion and fare hikes and implications; (3) Lectures from local politicians, academics, professionals, etc. We will take a balanced approach to understanding the theory of planning and operating a city with that of actually doing it.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/sfgs
Contact: Philip Sheehy, 2-014, 3.4524, sheehy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Students for Global Sustainability
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