Yale School of Architecture
New Haven, CT

Smart Materials & Technologies

Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new "smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems in building design.  Michelle Addington will present materials by describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design goals.

Michelle Addington is trained as both an architect and an engineer whose teaching and research explore the re-conceptualization of the human thermal environment. She serves as an adviser on energy and sustainability for many organizations, including the Department of Energy and the AIA.  Her chapters and articles on energy, environmental systems, lighting, and materials have appeared in many books and journals and she recently co-authored Smart Materials and Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions.

Prior to teaching at Yale, Ms. Addington taught at Harvard, Temple University and Philadelphia University.  Her background includes work at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, where she developed structural data for composite materials and designed components for unmanned spacecraft.  Ms. Addington then spent a decade as a process design and power plant engineer as well as a manufacturing supervisor at DuPont, and after studying architecture, she was an architectural associate at a firm based in Philadelphia.

Edwin A. Schneider Centennial Lectureship

"Issues on Sustainability" Lecture Series

The Materials Lab will host a reception
following the lecture in West Mall Building 3.102

Canonical Photographs

The Wolf and Janet Jessen Centennial Lectureship

The Mid-Century Houses of Robert Garland and David Hilles

Organized by the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts of the University of Texas at El Paso and curated by William Palmore, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology, this exhibit features photographs, models, and drawings of the mid-century houses of Robert Garland and David Hilles.

From the exhibition catalog, "During the period between 1952 and 1964, Robert Garland and David Hilles designed an astonishing number of modern houses for El Paso clients. Of these, the exhibition focuses on seven. [...T]hese were the best buildings produced in El Paso in that period, and the architects were certainly two of the most talented architects practicing in the Southwest at the time."

Featuring photographs by Julius Shulman, the exhibit also includes photographs, models, and drawings created by Palmore and students from the New York Institute of Technology.

Note: The film, "Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman," directed by Eric Bricker and narrated by Dustin Hoffman, is scheduled for two showings during the upcoming Austin Film Festival. Check the festival web site for more information on dates, cost, and locations.