Architecture

Year

2026

Prerequisites

4.021 or 4.02A

Enrollment

Limited to 20

Lab Fee

Per-term $75 fee after Add Date; SMACT students are exempt

Required Of

BSA, BSAD, D Minor; restricted elective for A Minor

Preference Given To

Course 4 majors and minors

Can Be Repeated for Credit

Thesis

Cancelled

Instructors

Cherie Abbanat

T.A.

Michelle Huang

Schedule

T TR 9:30-12:30

Location

E15-207

Discipline

Credits + Level

3-3-6

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Tonya Miller — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:52:37 +0000

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices Tonya Miller Wed, 10/16/2024 - 11:52

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Description

Subject Number

4.302

Semester

Year

2025

Prerequisites

4.021 or 4.02A

Enrollment

Limited to 20

Lab Fee

Per-term $75 fee after Add Date; SMACT students are exempt

Required Of

BSA, BSAD, D Minor; restricted elective for A Minor

Preference Given To

Course 4 majors and minors

Can Be Repeated for Credit

Thesis

Cancelled

Instructors

Cherie Abbanat

T.A.

Manavi Dixit

Schedule

TR 9:30-12:30

Location

E15-207

Discipline

Credits + Level

3-3-6

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Tonya Miller — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:06:31 +0000

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices Tonya Miller Tue, 10/24/2023 - 14:06

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Description

Subject Number

4.302

Semester

Year

2024

Prerequisites

4.021 or 4.02A

Enrollment

Limited to 20

Lab Fee

Per-term $75 fee after Add Date; SMACT students are exempt

Required Of

BSA, BSAD, D Minor; restricted elective for A Minor

Preference Given To

Course 4 majors and minors

Can Be Repeated for Credit

Thesis

Cancelled

Instructors

Cherie Abbanat

T.A.

Samantha Ratanarat

Schedule

TR 9:30-12:30

Location

E15-207

Discipline

Credits + Level

3-3-6

Space-Conditioning Systems for Low-Carbon Buildings

Tonya Miller — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:09:45 +0000

Space-Conditioning Systems for Low-Carbon Buildings Tonya Miller Thu, 11/03/2022 - 10:09

Space-Conditioning Systems for Low-Carbon Buildings

Description

Consensus understanding of climate change identifies a need to drastically reduce anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases in coming decades, including those associated with buildings. In this course, we seek a thermofluids understanding of the basics of natural and mechanical systems for conditioning high-performance buildings and will develop and assess systems based on this understanding. We will for new and existing buildings. Can these and other buildings, large or small, meet municipal and global goals for decarbonization? Should they simply depend on a decarbonized grid or can energy consumption be substantially reduced relative to current practice? Can they be maintained at a comfortable temperature with little or no use of mechanical systems? Can waste heat at building or community scale be effectively captured and reused – or, at last resort, transferred to the environment with minimal environmental and financial cost?

Topics include the thermal and fluid dynamics of airflow in buildings, application to multi-zone wind- and buoyancy-driven airflows. Building cooling strategies will be motivated by mapping conventional and innovative cooling systems on the psychrometric chart. First-principles analysis and simulations with an equation-based language, Modelica, and with EnergyPlus will be used to quantify the performance of energy recovery systems, membrane- and desiccant-based dehumidification, evaporative cooling, thermal storage at diurnal (building materials) and annual (ground-coupled heat pumps) scales and radiant cooling and heat-rejection systems. Current-practice and advanced district heating and cooling systems will be explored. Working in groups and making use of design workflows under development at MIT and Harvard, we will assess climate- and building-specific systems based on thermal comfort, energy consumption, carbon emissions and resilience to climate change. Project-based testing of speculative proposals, based on natural or man-made systems, will be encouraged.

Subject Number

4.421

Semester

23sp-4.421-syll-norford.pdf

Year

2023

Can Be Repeated for Credit

Thesis

Cancelled

Instructors

Les Norford

T.A.

Ramon Weber

Schedule

Lecture: M 2-3:30

Lab: M 3:30-5

Lab: W 9:30-11

Location

All meetings: 5-415

Discipline

Building Technology

Credits + Level

3-2-4

3-2-7

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Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Tonya Miller — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:47:42 +0000

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices Tonya Miller Thu, 11/03/2022 - 09:47

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Description

Subject Number

4.302

Semester

Year

2023

Prerequisites

4.021 or 4.02A

Enrollment

Limited to 20

Lab Fee

Per-term $75 fee after Add Date; SMACT students are exempt

Required Of

BSA, BSAD, D Minor; restricted elective for A Minor

Preference Given To

Course 4 majors and minors

Can Be Repeated for Credit

Thesis

Cancelled

Instructors

T.A.

Reina Mun

Schedule

TR 9-12

Location

E15-207

Discipline

Credits + Level

3-3-6

Spring 2022 Public Program

Site Administrator — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:05:37 +0000

Spring 2022 Public Program Site Administrator Tue, 02/01/2022 - 06:05

Published

February 1, 2022

Spring 2022 Public Program

MIT’s Department of Architecture is pleased to announce our spring 2022 public program; a continuing conversation on where we are now.

Welcoming in-person visitors as well as remote audiences, our events take place, above all, at our intellectual home: the intersection of design and research. This semester, we will confront thermal dynamics in architecture, performance, globalism and racialization, power systems, and the ‘Climatic Turn,’ the mythology of architectural authorship, and the complex relationship between people, place and building. Through it all, we seek architecture’s role in helping us understand the world, and its responsibilities and possibilities in transforming it.

This series is a collaboration between the diverse faculty, staff, and students of MIT’s Department of Architecture, which includes architects, designers, urbanists, historians, critics, theorists, artists, social entrepreneurs, and experts in computation and building technology. Alongside these academic programs and public events, student-run exhibits, publications and platforms advance and shape our agenda as well.

Spring 2022 features two exhibitions in our Keller Gallery: The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship, opening March 1; Thresholds 50: Before | After, opening April 22.

Events are held online and streamed on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter channels. Lectures are posted afterward on our YouTube channel. We invite you to explore the full public program below and find more details including links to webcasts on our events calendar.

Spring 2022 Public Program, MIT Department of Architecture

Dorit Aviv
Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design
“Thermal Architecture”
Presented with the Building Technology Group
February 17

J. Yolande Daniels
Associate Professor, MIT Department of Architecture & Co-founding Principal, studioSUMO
“Building | UnBuilding”
Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Program
February 24

Hakim Sameer Hamdani
AKPIA@MIT Postdoctoral Fellow
“From Sectarian to Muslim Ecurmenicalism: Changing Contours of Muslim Sacred Landscape in 19th Century Kashmir”
Presented by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
February 28

The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship
Keller Gallery Exhibition
March 1

Frederick Moten
Professor of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University
“Building and Bildung und Blackness: Some Architectural Questions for Fela”
Presented with the NOMAS, MIT
March 10

Xiaoji Chen
Microsoft Researcher, Urban Computing Foundation
“Our own legacy: from passion projects to sustainable solutions with open source community building”
Presented with the Design and Computation Group
March 17

Nadi Abusaada
AKPIA@MIT Postdoctoral Fellow
“The Profession’s Vanguards: Arab Architects in Mandate Jerusalem”
Presented by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
April 4

Marlon Blackwell
“Abstract Unions”
The 31st Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture
April 14

Matthias Sauerbruch & Louisa Hutton with Mark Wigley
“draw love build”
The Ahmad Tehrani Symposium
April 21

Thresholds 50: Before | After
Launch Event / Keller Exhibit
April 22

Nida Sinnokrot
“Palestine is not a Garden”
Presented with the Art, Culture and Technology Program
April 28

AKPIA@MIT Conference
“The Profession’s Foundations: Architects and Architecture in the Modern Middle East”
Presented by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
April 30

Hentyle Yapp
“The Ubiquity of Asia”
Presented with the History, Theory + Criticism Program
May 5

Our spring 2022 public program is supported in-part by the Arthur H. Schein (1951) Memorial Fund.

#BlackLivesMatter.

Above image: Marlon Blackwell Architects, Bike Barn, photograph by Timothy Hursley.

Space-Conditioning Systems for Low-Carbon Buildings

Site Administrator — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:01:11 +0000

Space-Conditioning Systems for Low-Carbon Buildings Site Administrator Fri, 01/14/2022 - 11:01

Space-Conditioning Systems for Low-Carbon Buildings

Description

Studies the thermofluid principles of, and design strategies for, natural and mechanical systems for conditioning high-performance buildings that are needed to reduce anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases in coming decades. Topics include the dynamics of airflow in buildings in urban areas and the design of natural and mixed-mode ventilation systems, low-energy strategies and systems for dehumidification and sensible cooling, and thermal storage at diurnal and seasonal time scales. System design in leading commercial practice is presented and critiqued by invited practitioners and students. Through a group project, students assess climate- and building-specific systems on the basis of energy consumption, carbon emissions, and resilience to climate change.

Subject Number

4.421

Semester

22sp-4.421-syll-norford.pdf

Year

2022

Prerequisites

None

Can Be Repeated for Credit

Cancelled

Instructor(s) (Non-Users)

Les Norford

Schedule

MW 2-3:30

M 3:30-5

Location

5-234

Discipline

Building Technology

Credits + Level

3-2-4

3-2-7

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Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 03:47:13 +0000

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/12/2022 - 22:47

Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices

Description

Subject Number

4.302

Semester

Year

2022

Prerequisites

4.021 or 4.02A

Enrollment

Limited to 20

Lab Fee

Per-term $75 fee after Add Date; SMACT students are exempt

Required Of

BSA, BSAD, D Minor; restricted elective for A Minor

Preference Given To

Course 4 majors and minors

Can Be Repeated for Credit

Cancelled

Instructor(s) (Non-Users)

Tobias Putrih

Schedule

TR 9-12

Location

E15-207

Discipline