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Publications

Selected Books, Articles, and Papers

Faculty members and students involved with the technology program engage in a wide range of publishing activities. The listing below is a sampling of major faculty publications.

Environmental Technologies

Schuler, Matthias (edited by Anja Thierfelder), Transsolar Climate Engineering (Birkhauser, 2003)

This book describes the energy and sustainability approaches used by Matthias Schuler. The book includes contributions by James Carpenter, Werner Sobek and others.

 

Structures, Materials and Construction

Innovative Surface Structures

Bechthold, Martin Innovative Surface Structures , Taylor & Francis, London, 2008.

The book covers introduces the fundamental principles of membranes, shells and folded plates, and covers recent research and emerging developments including nanomaterials and adaptive surface structures.

Structures

Schodek, Daniel, Bechthold, Martin Structures (6th Edition), Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008.

This is a long established and widely used textbook for teaching structural analysis and design to architecture students.

Pollalis, Spiro, What is a Bridge? M.I.T. Press, 1999.

The Alamillo Bridge and others are discussed in this book dealing with the analysis and design of innovative bridge structures.

 

Schodek, Daniel, Structure in Sculpture, M.I.T. Press, 1993.

This book looks at sculpture through the lens of structural theory

 

Bechthold, Martin, Ferrocement Formwork: Computer-Aided Manufacturing of Concrete Shells, chapter in: Motro. R. (Ed): Shells and Spatial Structures from Models to Realization. proceedings of the IASS Symposium. Montpellier, France. 2004

This paper presents ongoing research on pre-fabricated ferrocement formwork for concrete shells.

 

Bechthold, Martin, The Art of Structural Design. A Swiss Legacy, Book Review in: Harvard Design Magazin, Fall 2004

This article critically reviews David Billington's book on aswiss approach to teaching and practicing structural design.

 

Bechthold, Martin, On Shells and Blobs, in: Harvard Design Magazin, Fall 2003

This article discusses recent trends in the design and fabrication of curved surfaces, with an emphasis on structural shells.

 

Bechthold, Martin, Implementing Information Technology in Teaching: A Case Study, in: In: proceedings of the 91st ACSA annual meeting, 2003

This paper presents the design, prototyping and implementation of an interactive, online teaching tool (Interactive Structures Modules) that support student's learning of structures in architecture programs.

 

Bechthold, Martin, Wood Foam Sandwich Shells: Computer-Aided Manufacturing of Complex Shapes, chapter in: Obrebski. J. (Ed): Lightweight Structures in Civil Engineering. proceedings of the IASS Symposium. Warsaw, Poland. 2002

This chapter presents research on digitally driven design and manufacturing methods for structural roof shells. This paper won the 2003 Tsuboi Award by the IASS.

 
 

Oungrinis, Konstentinos , Transformations: Paradigms for Designing Transformable Space, Harvard Design School, Technology and Design Report Series, 2005-6.

This report looks at structures that incorporate principles fo flexibility, adaptation, and multiform to achieve their purpose.

Project Management and Building Practice

 

Becerik, Burcin, and Pollalis, Spiro, "Computer Aided Collaboration in Mangaging Construction," Technology and Design Report Series, Harvard Design School, 2006-2.

 

Schroepfer, Thomas, Globalization and Building Practices I: An Analytic Framework and Four Case Studies, Technology and Design Report Series, Harvard Design School, 2005-1.

Peiser, R, and S.N. Pollalis, Mapping the Present: Real Estate, Construction and the Internet, edited by K. Cacace, (Cambridge, Harvard Design School, June 2001).

Pollalis, Spiro, and Menheere, Sebastiaan (Edited by Rick Huijbregts), Build, Operate and Transfer (Delft, 1996)

This book examines build, operate and transfer projects as a method of project implementation by government agencies willing to subcontract development and operational risks to the private sector.

 

Pollalis, Spiro, Computer-Aided Project Management: A Visual Scheduling and Management System (Vieweg, 1993)

This work presents an effective method for the control and allocation of resources employed in the creation of a product.

  Pollalis, S.N., editor, Uncertainty and Risk in International Construction Markets, (Cambridge, Harvard Design School, 1996).

Computer-aided Design and Manufacturing Application in Architecture

Schodek, Bechthold, Griggs, Kao, Steinberg, Digital Design and Manufacturing: Applications in Architecture and Design, John Wiley & Sons, NJ, 2004.

This book discusses a broad range of CAD/CAM applications in design, including the historical development of the field, case studies of projects, digital design environments, manufacturing environments, and different production strategies.

Halaby, J., Polyvalence and Parametrics: Parametric Modeling in Architecture Design (Cambridge - Harvard Design School: Technology Report Series 2004-4)

This book presents techniques and strategies for parametric modeling in the context of a complex design problem - a proposal for a new Waldorf School in Roxbury, MA.

Corser, R., and Bakallbashi, G., Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing: Applications in Architecture (Cambridge - Harvard Design School: Technology Report Series 2003-4)

The exercises from two regularly offered courses dealing with CAD/CAM are presented.

Bechthold, Martin, and Griggs, Kimo, Coffee, Cake, CAD/CAM: Reinventing the Urban Diner (Cambridge - Harvard Design School: Technology Report Series 2003-3)

Results of a studio focusing on CAD/CAM applications in architecture.

Bechthold, Griggs, Schodek and Steinberg, New Technologies in Design I: Digital Design and Manfuacturing Techniques II & III (Cambridge - Harvard Design School: Technology Report Series 2003-2)

Proceedings of symposia on CAD/CAM applications in architecture and design held at the Harvard Design School and in Helsinki.

Bechthold, Griggs, Schodek and Steinberg, New Technologies in Design I: Digital Design and Manfuacturing Techniques (Cambridge - Harvard Design School: Technology Report Series 2001-1)

Proceedings of a symposium on CAD/CAM applications in architecture and design held at the Harvard Design School in 2000.

Advanced Materials: Composites and Smart Materials

Addington, M . and Schodek, D., Smart Materials in Architecture and Design, Architectural Press (Elsevier), 2004.

The world of smart materials and technologies are explored in this book; including property-changing and energy-exchanging materials, system elements and characteristics, products, and smart systems and environments.

  Addington, M . and Schodek, D.,“New Materials for Architecture,” chapter in Encyclopedia of Smart Materials, ed. M. Schwartz (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002)

This chapter lays out the basic issues that differentiate the use of smart materials in architecture from the more established applications in the engineering fields.

  Addington, M., Kienzl, N. and Schodek, D., Smart Materials and Technologies in Architecture, (Cambridge, Harvard Design School, Technology Report Series 2001-2)

This report presents a primer on smart materials and presents the design experiments (pre-2002) conducted by class members in the course “New Materials and Technologies.”

Product Design

Steinberg, Marco, Prototyping for a Plywood Wheelchair, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1999.

Results of a research project on the development of a unique form of wheelchair using curved plywood fabricated via CNC technologies.

Other

Schodek, Daniel, Landmarks in American Civil Engineering, M.I.T. Press, 1987.

This compilation describes the roads, dams, bridges and other projects that have been officially designated as national landmark structures in the history of civil engineering in America.