Nicholas De Monchaux
Nicholas de Monchaux (born July 30, 1973) is a designer and author, and currently Professor and Head of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. He was formerly Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. de Monchaux is the author of ''Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo'', a cultural, physical, and intellectual history of the Apollo/Skylab A7L, Apollo A7L spacesuit; the book was winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and shortlisted for the Authors' Club, Author's Club Art Book (Sir Banister Fletcher) Prize. In 2016, he published ''Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities'', which combines several historical essays on urbanism, computing, and complexity with 3,659 designs for micro-scaled ecological int ...
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Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the most prestigious and highly ranked academic institutions in the world. Founded in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. MIT is one of three private land grant universities in the United States, the others being Cornell University and Tuskegee University. The institute has an urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River, and encompasses a number of major off-campus facilities such as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Bates Center, and the Haystack Observatory, as well as affiliated laboratories such as the Broad and Whitehead Institutes. , 98 ...
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