Now going into its third year, the Moshe Safdie Fellowship will focus on intermodal transportation. reconsidering the airport and the urban interface terminal. Info inside
Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. Architects and Planners Research Fellowship
intermodal transportation
reconsidering the airport and the urban interface terminal
Fellowship Announcement
Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. Architects and Planners invites applications for two one-year Research Fellowships to work directly with Moshe Safdie in a collaborative effort of design research.
about the fellowship
Now in its third year, this practice-oriented fellowship is based on the premise that design-centered research, addressing generic building types and carried out outside normal practice constraints, is crucial to developing fresh solutions that would influence professional practice. The fellows spend one year in residence at the Boston office of Moshe Safdie and Associates, where they are able to use the office as an open forum for discussion and development, have access to resources of the office and its network of specialist consultants, as well as receive administrative and research support. The fellows work collaboratively and continuously with Moshe Safdie personally in analyzing, speculating, and developing design proposals addressing the fellowship’s chosen theme. Every year Moshe Safdie selects a general theme on which the design research will focus. The first fellowship was devoted to the study of tall buildings in the city. The 2005-2006 Fellowship will be devoted to the study of intermodal transportation – rethinking the airport and the urban interface terminal. At the end of the year, the fellows will prepare the work for publication and exhibition.
about the theme
As society has come to be increasingly dependent on transportation and communications, the need for mobility has increased. While multiple modes of transportation such as public and private vehicular, buses, trains, and airlines, are deployed the interface between the various modes becomes increasingly tenuous. The inefficiency of transferring from one mode of transportation to the other decreases mobility, increases congestion, and stands in the way of innovation that might break through the current physical and conceptual gridlock.
In The City After the Automobile, 1997, Moshe Safdie outlined a broad program for reconsidering urban transportation with the view to transforming the interface potential for various modes of transport, each to be deployed where it is most effective. These proposals will serve as a springing point for an investigation into the potential for radical rethinking of airports and urban interface terminals. As airports and terminals have also become catalysts for mixed-use development around them, the study will access how transforming such facilities might positively impact surrounding development.
The fellowship offers the opportunity for considering improvements to transportation modes made possible by recent technological developments, as well as the payoff that might be achieved by rethinking, from first principles, the primary objective of transportation facilities – the most efficient, seamless, and convenient transfer from one mode of transportation to the other, maximizing mobility. The fellowship therefore focuses on transport systems, with particular concern given to the spatial and architectural relationships that might reconfigure their application.
about the office
Headquartered in Boston, with branches in Jerusalem and Toronto, the office is engaged in uniquely diverse projects, both in terms of building type and geographic location. Currently in design and under construction are libraries, museums, performing arts centers, airports, bus terminals, federal courthouses, cultural centers and new cities in such diverse places as Toronto, India, Jerusalem, Modi’in, New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Alabama, Missouri and Arkansas. The office has developed a strong relationship with some of the design community’s leading engineers, who have agreed to collaborate with the Fellows. Within this context, the Fellows will enjoy a unique opportunity to engage in explorations and dialogs not typically available within the university or practice.
eligibility
Candidates should have a minimum of five years experience in practice and have obtained a professional degree in architecture. Candidates should consider themselves accomplished designers, with good communication skills, able to work effectively in a collaborative environment, and capable of critical and analytical processes. Candidates should be able to both become versed with the body of knowledge and experience, as well as be capable of proposing innovative alternatives. Candidates are asked to submit: a 1,200 - 1,500 word proposal that outlines possible approaches to structuring and conducting the research effort; a curriculum-vitae; a non-returnable portfolio of professional and academic work, research and writing; and names of three references. Those candidates short-listed will be brought to Boston to participate in a roundtable discussion on intermodal transportation and for an individual interview. Stipend and benefits will be commensurate with experience.
The deadline for the receipt of application material is August 15th. The Fellowship positions are expected to begin in late September, 2005.
send materials to:
Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. Architects and Planners
Research Fellowship Search Committee
100 Properzi Way, Somerville, MA 02143
additional information regarding the office can be found at: http://www.msafdie.com
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