Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library (CLASS IS FULL!)
Cynthia Stewart
Wed Jan 10, 06-07:30pm, Entrance to BPL
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
THIS CLASS IS FULL!
Put on your walking shoes and take a tour of the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one of 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 will 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. Meet inside the Dartmouth Street entrance of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square.
Web: http://www.bpl.org/central/index.html
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 7-337, x3-4408, stewart@mit.edu
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Computational Design Solutions: Parametric Modeling Using Digital Project
Dennis Shelden, Sameer Kashyap
Mon Jan 29 thru Thu Feb 1, 10am-05:00pm, 9-251, 9/29 starts at 9AM - software
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 24-Jan-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Prereq: Knowledge of 3D modeling required.
This is a course for designers and architects who want to learn parametric modeling. The course explores design solutions using basic concepts in parametric modeling and geometric variation tools. Objectives of this course are to investigate producing digital information for digital fabrication at the desktop level, to guide designers towards reaching possible solutions using geometric variation, relational models, and dependency processes involved in design. Topics will include basic parametric 2D, surface and solid modeling, parametric relational modeling, knowledgeware and scripting.
10:00 am – 2:00 pm, with hands on practice sessions from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Contact: Dennis Shelden, 7-337, x3-7387, dennis.shelden@gehrytechnologies.com
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Computational Design Solutions: Parametric Modeling Using Digital Project
Dennis Shelden, Sameer Kashyap
Tue Jan 23, Mon Jan 29, Tue Jan 30, Wed Jan 31, Thu Feb 1, 10am-02:00pm, 9-251, Jan.23, 9am, software install.
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 24-Jan-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Prereq: Knowledge of 3D modeling required. No previous experience i
This is a course for designers and architects who want to learn parametric modeling. The course explores design solutions using basic concepts in parametric modeling and geometric variation tools. Objectives of this course are to investigate producing digital information for digital fabrication at the desktop level, to guide designers towards reaching possible solutions using geometric variation, relational models, and dependency processes involved in design. Topics will include basic parametric 2D, surface and solid modeling, parametric relational modeling, knowledgeware and scripting.
Contact: Dennis Shelden, 7-337, x3-7387, dennis.shelden@gehrytechnologies.com
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Morphology in Tree I.D.
Lara Davis
Tue Jan 16, Thu Jan 18, 05:30-07:30pm, Stella Room 7-338
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2007
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Rote memorization is one method by which we can learn to identify botanical specimens. However, we can also combine a knowledge of botanical morphology with critical observation skills to problem-solve what we don't know. This class is intended as an introduction to tree identification through an investigation of basic botanical distinctions in branching structure, leaf type, bark texture, bud scaling and tree habit (or overall shape). We will look at diagrams of these structural differences, leaf, branch and fruit samples, and a few specimens on the MIT campus.
Contact: Lara Davis, 7-337, x3-7387, ldavis24@mit.edu
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Sponge
Hope Ginsburg
Tue Jan 16 thru Fri Jan 19, 10am-05:00pm, N52-318
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2007
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
SPONGE is an experience in total immersion. During each of the four absorb-a-thon days one theme will be investigated in depth. The workshop will string together reef ecology, Mongolian craft, art & industry, and the notion of utopia. You will see four films (maybe 5), go on two field trips (one to an aquarium and one to a museum) make a pair of wool felt shoes and read at least one manifesto. In keeping with the model of sponge reproduction, you will leave the workshop prepared to lead a SPONGE of your own.
Contact: Hope Ginsburg, N52-318L, ginsburg@mit.edu
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form.z Workshops at MIT
Maher El-Khaldi, Takehiko Nagakura
Tue Jan 16, Wed Jan 17, Thu Jan 18, 10am-04:00pm, AVT - 7-431
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 30 participants.
The workshops will cover two themes: (1) modeling/animation and (2) scripting.
Morning sessions : Modeling/animation, under the title “Forms in motion”, will be offered by Matthew Holewinski in morning sessions (10:00 am to 12:00 noon) on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Noon Sessions: Scripting, under the title “Scripting generative tools”, will be offered by Markus Bonn in afternoon sessions (1:00 to 4:00 pm) ) on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Courtesy of Auto.Des.Sys., Inc.
Content of the sessions are available from Maher
Contact: Maher El-Khaldi, 7-337, x3-7387, maher@mit.edu
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