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Rotch Library Exhibit

Rotch Library Exhibit Archives: 1999-2010

January 1, 1999 - January 25, 2010

An Uncertain Moment
Laura Rushfeldt

December 1, 2009 – January 29, 2010

A little girl in shorts sitting in a beige, grafitti-covered 0-shaped structure.

This exhibition provides a photo chronicle of contemporary life in Kosovo. Kosovo’s political condition and its effect on the Kosovar people is complex, ambiguous, and fluid. At best, this effect can be grasped only through examples and snapshots that provide momentary understanding. The exhibition is an attempt is to provide a lens into contemporary Kosovo through the individuals the artist met and the stories they were willing to share with her. The collection of many small stories culminated in two larger ones, the lives of Medina, an 11-year old girl growing up in a suburb of Prishtina, and Sabahet, a student at Prishtina University. This volume chronicles their daily life, with the remnants and ripples of past conflict still visible and affecting them today.


Tomes & Domes: Islamic Architecture
Collections at Rotch

October 15 – November 25, 2009

Domes against a blue sky

Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Complex, Istanbul, Turkey

An exhibit highlighting items from Rotch Library’s extensive collection of materials related to architecture and planning in the Islamic world. The exhibit showcases items used in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) and includes photographs taken by MIT students supported by the AKPIA Travel Grant.

Funded (in part) by Robert M. Randolph, Chaplain to the Institute, Office of Religious Life, and the Council for the Arts at MIT.


Posters attached to posts in Rotch reading room

View of reading room installation

MIT Department of Architecture Faculty Exhibition

March 7 – May 21, 2009

In conjunction with the visit of the National Architectural Accrediting Board, this exhibit featured faculty profiles, publications, and models displayed throughout the reading room and gallery in Rotch Library.

Curator: Lisa Pauli


Al-Bishriyya water-wheels, Hama, Syria

Al-Bishriyya water-wheels, Hama, Syria

Riverscapes
Adriana de Miranda

November 25 – December 16, 2008

An exhibition of photographs taken during the course of the artist’s doctoral research on the water-wheels of the Near and Far East, primarily in Syria and China. For more information, see her book, Water Architecture in the Lands of Syria.


Disintegration (Paintings)
Roberto Marrone

November 14 – November 25, 2008

Return To Ooze
A.J. Liberto

October 3 – October 24, 2008

Urban Studies/Random Views: recent paintings
Carol Schweigert

May 6, 2008 – July 18, 2008

IAP Rotch Library Film Series
Ann Whiteside, Jolene deVerges, Jennifer Friedman, Heather McCann

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: January 7, 2008 – February 1, 2008

Fields seen from above through a window

Lanai: Living in the Landscape
Stephanie Hsu

December 10 – January 13, 2008

Place, Sense, Time: The Summer 2007 Veneto Experience
Najiyah Edun, Shun Kanda, and Mio Uchida

October 22, 2007 – November 16, 2007

The View from the Hotel Window, 1993-2000
Sam Bass Warner

September 12, 2007 – October 11, 2007

Treading on History: Photographs of Contemporary Italy
Mary Pat McNally

June 1, 2007 – June 30, 2007

Souvenir de Caire
Mohammed Elshahed

May 21, 2007 – May 31, 2007

Recent Prints
Amy Stout

February 1, 2007 – February 28, 2007

Photographing Lebanon: A Work in Progress
James Long

November 1, 2006 – November 30, 2006

The Gasket Project
Charles Mathis

October 1, 2006 – October 31, 2006

Mapping with Geographic Information Systems
Lisa Sweeney

September 1, 2006 -September 30, 2006

The Katrina Disaster: One Year Later
Jina Kim and Louis Basel

July 31, 2006 – August 31, 2006

Wood Carvings
Parker W. Hirtle

June 7 – June 30, 2006

Up On the Roof: Photographs
Judith M. Daniels

May 1 – May 30, 2006

Past Through Different Lenses: Photography in Eastern Europe
Nilin & Nilina

April 6 – April 30, 2006

Sacred Spaces: Photographs
Ifeoma Ebo

March 10 – March 31, 2006

The Umbrella Collection
Leonardo Shieh

January 13 – January 31, 2006

Snaps: Journey to South India
Photographs by Wanda W. Lau

December 1 – December 30, 2005

Carvings and Sculptures
Paul Angiolillo

November 1 – December 30, 2005

The Veneto Experience 2005

November 14 – November 30, 2005

Four Tables: projects by Lira Nikolovska

October 3 – October 30, 2005

The Beauty Within the Beauty of MIT: The Photography of Sulaiman Al-Awadi

September 1 – September 30, 2005

Photographs by Andrew Shea

June 1 – June 30, 2005

Five Drawings by Susannah Webster

May 1 – May 31, 2005

The Social Life of Bills: A Photo Essay by Betsy Campbell

May 1 – May 31, 2005

Corn Fields and Color Fields: An Exploration into the Canvas of the Midwest Landscape: Paintings by Cecilia Ramos

April 1 – April 30, 2005

Gaijin: Photographs by Bahadir and Melissa Kavlaki

February 1 – February 28, 2005

Artists Behind the Desk

January 3 – January 31, 2005

Works on Paper (And Associated Studies) from the Architectural Design Workshop
Prof. Mark Jarzombek: 4-184 Spring 2004

December 1 – December 31, 2004

The Veneto Experience 2004
Michelle Ha and Haruka Horiuchi

November 4 – November 30, 2004

The (Fading) Poetry of Old Lebanese Houses: Photographs
Joseph Saleh

October 1 – October 31, 2004

SinOxposure: Photographs
Anubhav Gupta

September 1 – September 30, 2004

ENTRE NOUS: SELF-PORTRAITS: An Exhibition of Photographs
John Melczer

August 13 – September 3, 2004

Let A Hundred Starbucks Blossom
Coryn Kempster

May 15 – June 30, 2004

Green Maps
Jerrad Pierce

May 15 – June 30, 2004

Stories My Grandma Told Me
Neeti Gupta

May 1 – May 25, 2004

Shanghai Scrolls
Moneta Ho

May 1 – May 25, 2004

2004 ULI Gerald D Hines Urban Design Competition: MIT Finalist Team
Sarah Roszler, Emily Greeves, Sean Sacks, Justin Crane

April 1 – April 30, 2004

Building with Books

February 2 – February 29, 2004

Recent Works
J. Stewart Roberts and Associates, Inc. – Architects

January 5 – January 31, 2004

Somnambulations: A Multimedia Exploration of Dreams and Desire
Napier Fuller

September 2nd – September 30, 2004

2003

One Studio: Three Visions
Tudor Street Printmakers
Myrna Balk, Kathy Halamka and Aaron Seidman

June 27 – August 15, 2003

Architecture Lensview
Photographs by Anubhav Gupta

May 30th – July 3, 2003

ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition

DUSP Team Entry (Finalist)
Faculty Advisor: John de Monchaux
Team Members: Anthony Guaraldo, Michael Marrella, Rob Morgan, Carolina Simon, Susanne Seitinger

May 16-22, 2003

Supernova: Zero to Eight Years Old in a Flash
An Exhibition of Photographs by John Melczer

April – May, 2003

Department of Architecture: Works by Faculty
Recent Work in Architecture and Research

March 8 – April 3, 2003

Pen and Ink Sketches of Transplanted Indian Communities in Britain and Ireland
Travel Sketches by Gaurav Srivastava

February 7 – March 2, 2003

Two Journeys into Abstraction
Paintings and Drawing by Shireen Agah and Sally Lee

January 10 – February 6, 2003

Form and Element
New Works on Paper by Jacquelyn Martino

November 25, 2002 – January 3, 2003

Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at M.I.T

Artists Behind the Desk
Artists by Night, Administrators by Day

October 1 – November 11, 2002

The Reading Game
Installation by Napier Fuller

August 30 – September 30, 2002

Photographs by David Foxe

August 1 – August 29, 2002

Half Way to Hell
Photographs by Julianne Zimmerman

June 10 – July 8, 2002

Architecture@MIT: Spring Exhibit of Student Work
A Selection of Undergraduate and Graduate Design Work from the Fall 2001 Semester

March 10 – April 15, 2002

Process, Scale, Invisibility
Photographs of the Big Dig by Zach Kramer

February 1 – February 28, 2002

Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

Lecture: November 1, 2001
Exhibit: November 1-30, 2001

Unbuilt Visions: A Look at the Poetic and the Fantastic in Architectural Design

The Coincidence of Opposing Extremities
Mathematico-Architectural Planning Principles of the Central European Baroque Church

Lloyd Rodwin 1919-1999
Celebrating a Lifetime of Achievement in Planning, Practice, Education, and Research

Wind Catchers of Southwest Asia
A Display of Photographs from the Aga Khan Collection