Continuing our little mini series on speakers of this year's MIT Smart Customization Seminar, here is some more information on who will be there on stage to share his expert knowledge with you.
Kent Larson
Director of Changing Places Research Group, MIT Media Lab
Head of House_n Research Consortium, MIT Dept. of Architecture
Kent Larson is the director of the Changing Places research group at the MIT Media Lab. He also runs the MIT House_n Research Consortium at the MIT Department of Architecture.
His current research focuses on strategies for creating responsive places of living using new design/fabrication strategies, defining system level standards for an open source approach to building design, new urban vehicles, and developing ubiquitous sensing/computation technologies that do useful things for people related to proactive health, energy conservation, personal mobility, and learning.
Larson practiced architecture for nineteen years in New York City with work published in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Global Architecture, A+U, and Architectural Digest. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture 2000 by the New York Times Review of Books.
You can download this year's Smart Customization Seminar's agenda here!
For more up-to-date information and registration please head to http://scg.mit.edu or follow the conference twitter hashtag, #SCG12!
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