Miho Mazereeuw | |
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| Born | Miho Mazereeuw |
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| Alma mater | Harvard Graduate School of Design and Wesleyan University |
| Thesis | (2013) |
Miho Mazereeuw is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism in the Department of Architecture at MIT where she also directs the Urban Risk Lab. [1] Mazereeuw is most known for her work in disaster risk reduction.
Mazereeuw, who is part Dutch and part Japanese, grew up in Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore. [2] She received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture and Environmental Science from Wesleyan University. [1] While in college in 1995, she visited Kobe, Japan where her parents had recently moved after the Great Hanshin Earthquake. [2] She then earned her Master in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). [1] For her thesis, Mazereeuw designed an emergency infrastructure system as part of a subway station design, akin to the Urban Risk Lab's PrepHub project. [2] Much of her research interest centers on coastal areas in the Pacific Rim of Fire. [3]
Mazereeuw's experience in design practice include working in the offices of Shigeru Ban and Dan Kiley as well as an associate position at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Before joining MIT, she taught at Harvard's GSD and the University of Toronto. [1] As the director of MIT's Urban Risk Lab, she leads multiple regional, national and international scale projects focusing on questions of resilience, design, and technology to improve disaster preparedness.
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