Michael Robert Van Valkenburgh is an American landscape architect and educator. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the United States,Canada,Korea,and France,including public parks,college campuses,sculpture gardens,city courtyards,corporate landscapes,private gardens,and urban master plans.
The MIT Museum,founded in 1971,is located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,Massachusetts. It hosts collections of holography,technology-related artworks,artificial intelligence,architecture,robotics,maritime history,and the history of MIT. Its holography collection of 1800 pieces is the largest in the world,though only a few selections from it are usually exhibited. As of 2023,works by the kinetic artist Arthur Ganson are the largest long-running displays. There is a regular program of temporary special exhibitions,often on the intersections of art and technology.
Michael David Sorkin was an American architectural and urban critic,designer,and educator. He was considered to be "one of architecture's most outspoken public intellectuals",a polemical voice in contemporary culture and the design of urban places at the turn of the twenty-first century. Sorkin first rose to prominence as an architectural critic for the Village Voice in New York City,a post which he held for a decade throughout the 1980s. In the ensuing years,he taught at prominent universities around the world,practiced through his eponymous firm,established a nonprofit book press,and directed the urban design program at the City College of New York. He died at age 71 from complications brought on by COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Weiss/Manfredi is a multidisciplinary New York City-based design practice that combines landscape,architecture,infrastructure,and art. The firm's notable projects include the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park,the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center,the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech,the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania,the Museum of the Earth,the Embassy of the United States,New Delhi,and Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park.
Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer,curator,writer,critic,and educator. Known for her love of typography,Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt,Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and was named Curator Emerita after 30 years of service. She is the founding director of the Graphic Design M.F.A. degree program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA),where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. She has written numerous books on graphic design for a variety of audiences. She has contributed to several publications,including Print,Eye,I.D.,Metropolis,and The New York Times.
The MIT School of Architecture and Planning is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,located in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Founded in 1865 by William Robert Ware,the school offered the first formal architectural curriculum in the United States,and the first architecture program in the world operating within the establishment of a university. MIT SAP is considered a global academic leader in the design field and one of the most accomplished schools in the world. MIT's department of architecture has consistently ranked among the top architecture/built environment schools in the world,and from 2015 to 2018 was ranked highest in the world in QS World University Rankings. In 2019,it was ranked second to The Bartlett but regained the number one position later on in the 2020 rankings.
John Ochsendorf is an American educator,structural engineer,and historian of construction;he is a professor in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is widely known for becoming a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 He served as the Director of the American Academy in Rome from 2017–2020. In 2022,he was appointed the founding director of the newly-created MIT Morningside Academy for Design.
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer and educator.
Mikyoung Kim,FASLA is an American landscape architect,urban designer,and founding principal of Mikyoung Kim Design. Kim has received the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Award and the American Society of Landscape Architects National Design Medal. Her studio was named by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative architecture firms.
Joris Hendricus Laarman is a Dutch designer,artist and entrepreneur best known for his experimental designs inspired by emerging technologies.
Marlon Blackwell is an American architect and university professor in Arkansas. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Christine Tarkowski(born 1967) is an American sculptor and installation artist. Through her art,she explores the impact of the built environment on the natural environment.
Sheila Kennedy is an American architect and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who is known for including green technology,such as flexible solar cells,into her designs. She is interested in using technology in new ways and in re-examining traditional ways of building and designing structures.
Hilary Sample is an American architect,principal,and co-founder of the award-winning architecture firm MOS Architects in New York City.
Eric Höweler is a Chinese-Dutch architect and designer. Höweler is an associate professor in architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design,where he teaches lecture courses and design studios with a focus on building technologies/integration since 2008. In 2004,Höweler founded Höweler+Yoon Architecture with partner Meejin Yoon.
Höweler+Yoon (HYA) is a design-driven architecture practice and creative studio based in Boston,Massachusetts. It was founded in 2004 by Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon.
Bernardo Fort-Brescia is a US-based Peruvian businessman and architect. He is the co-founder of the architectural firm Arquitectonica. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He won the AIA Silver Medal. He is also an heir to Grupo Breca.
Jenny E. Sabin is an American architect,designer and artist who draws upon biology and mathematics to design material structures. Sabin is the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. She focuses on design and emerging technologies,with particular emphasis on the areas of computational design,data visualization and digital fabrication.
Boym Partners is design firm based in New York City.
Ana Miljački is a historian,theorist,educator and curator of architecture. She is an Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT where she directs the Critical Broadcasting Lab,the Architecture and Urbanism Group and the Master of Architecture Program.
