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“Textile Hybrid M1” at La Tour de l’Architecte, Monthoiron, France, 2012. Credits: Sean Ahlquist, Julian Lienhard, Institute for Computational Design — Professor Achim Menges, Insitute for Building Structures and Structural Design — Professor Jan Knippers, University of Stuttgart.
“Conduit Urbanism: Rethinking Infrastructural Ecologies in the Great Lakes Mega-region” in Sustainable Energy Landscapes: Design Planning and Development (CRC Taylor Francis). Thün and Velikov also presented“Latitude Housing System: Mass-Customized Net Energy-Positive Housing for the Great Lakes Region” at the Zero Energy Mass Customized Housing (ZEMCH) Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in August. In addition, Thün presented his recent research and its relationship to emerging models of architectural pedagogy at the FACADES + INNOVATION Conference at IIT in Chicago in October. Associate Professor Geoffrey Thün, Assistant Professor Kathy Velikov with FABLab Director and Lecturer Wes McGee presented their “Resonant Chamber” project at SIGGRAPH 2012: the 39th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques at the Los Angeles Convention Center in August. Associate Professor Jason Young was awarded a 2012-2013 fellowship by the Institute for the Humanities for his research project, “Skirmishes with the MacroPhenomenal: Letting Go of the City.” Sean Ahlquist, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Taubman College and doctoral candidate at the University of Stuttgart in the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) completed two design research projects at ICD, examining the potential of variegated material constructs to form complex
force-active structural and spatial systems, as well as the development of a custom computational design application. Assistant Professor McLain Clutter was awarded a Graham Foundation grant for his research titled “Imaginary Apparatus: Film Production and Urban Planning in New York City, 19661975,” which traces the intersection of policies regarding film production and urban planning policy during John Lindsay’s mayoral tenure in New York (1966–1973). In collaboration with Mark Linder from Syracuse Architecture, Assistant Professor McLain Clutter organized an exhibition titled “American Cities 2.5” at the McGill University School of Architecture Gallery in Montreal in November. The exhibition featured one project by Clutter and Linder, respectively, each utilizing techniques of deploying GIS as a design medium that the two developed together. Assistant Professor Rania Ghosn’s essay titled “Move Along! There Is Nothing to See” was published in issue 40 of Thresholds, the Journal of the MIT Department of Architecture. She also published,”Where are the Missing Spaces? The Geography of some Uncommon Interests,” in the Yale Architectural Journal Perspecta 45. Assistant Professor Joy Knoblauch presented her research on the economics of the fear of crime and the growth of surveillance technologies in public housing at the Sixth Biennial Urban History Association Conference held at
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