Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. In this interview, he talks about his work on 21st-century cities and the "on-demand" economy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2015-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This will be fairly tutorial and aim to accessibly describe progress on a theory of network architecture relevant to neuroscience, biology, medicine and technology (particularly SDN/NFV and cyberphysical systems), initially focusing on the common motivations from these subjects. Key ideas are motivated by familiar examples from neuroscience, inc...
Creator:
Doyle, John C.
Created:
2015-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
100 Years of Student Drawings Celebrating the reopening of Northrop Hall and the Centennial of the School of Architecture, the exhibition 100 Years of Student Drawings displays drawings from the Beaux-Arts era through the digital age, showing a range of building types, media, and individual expression, including two drawings by two Monuments Men...
Framing Los Angeles, 1960: Case Study House #22 and the Photography of Whiteness One of the most famous architectural representations of the 20th century is Julius Shulman's photograph of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 (1960). In this lecture, Dianne Harris examines this iconic image, asking new questions about what this seemingly well-kno...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Harris, Dianne
Created:
2014-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Framing Los Angeles, 1960: Case Study House #22 and the Photography of Whiteness One of the most famous architectural representations of the 20th century is Julius Shulman's photograph of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 (1960). In this lecture, Dianne Harris examines this iconic image, asking new questions about what this seemingly well-kno...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Harris, Dianne
Created:
2014-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Many of today's most striking buildings are nontraditional freeform shapes. While using current modeling tools to digitally design freeform geometry is well understood, fabrication on the architectural scale is a big challenge, providing a rich source of research topics in geometry and geometric computing. Pottmann will provide an overview of re...
Creator:
Pottmann, Helmut (Technische Universität Wien)
Created:
2014-04-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The Tao of Urban Rejuvenation: Building a Livable Creative Urban Village Building livable, creative, equitable, and sustainable cities is a common community goal, but drawing from several disciplines to achieve it may pose considerable challenge. Public/private partnership is popular today, but making it work in a complex world is difficult. In ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lu, Weiming
Created:
2014-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Tao of Urban Rejuvenation: Building a Livable Creative Urban Village Building livable, creative, equitable, and sustainable cities is a common community goal, but drawing from several disciplines to achieve it may pose considerable challenge. Public/private partnership is popular today, but making it work in a complex world is difficult. In ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lu, Weiming
Created:
2014-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anne Hake talks to Peter Shea about her work in Port-au-Prince for three months with the American Refugee Committee researching opportunities for permanent housing solutions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hake, Anne
Created:
2011-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.