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Prof. Sheila Kennedy

Professor of Architecture

Director of Design & Applied Research, MATx
Principal, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.

Primary DLC

Department of Architecture

MIT Room: 10-411M

(617) 324-6095

sheilak@mit.edu

https://architecture.mit.edu/people/sheila-kennedy

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Architectural Design
R&D for Sustainable Materials, Agricultural Waste, Natural Materials etc.
Next Generation Sustainable Building and Urban Infrastructures

Research Summary

Kennedy's research is focused on design for emergent distributed energy paradigms in buildings, cities and developing, global regions; the visualization of active material, networks; and the creation of design applications, integration pathways and manufacturing processes for flexible, mobile' arid; embedded ' technologies in, materials, objects and architecture.

Projects

September 7, 2023

Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL)

ODDS & MODS: Material Circularity Prototypes for Rural Communities

Principal Investigators Sheila Kennedy , Caitlin Mueller

September 18, 2019

Department of Architecture

Building Facades That Move, Textiles That Illuminate: A Pathway to Flexible, Resilient Architecture

Principal Investigator Sheila Kennedy

July 7, 2016

Department of Architecture

Built Environment and Infrastructure Focus Area: Building Facades That Move, Textiles That Illuminate

Principal Investigator Sheila Kennedy

September 11, 2008

Department of Architecture

Portable Light Project

Principal Investigator Sheila Kennedy

Prof. Sheila Kennedy

Primary DLC

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Research Summary

Recent Work

ODDS & MODS: Material Circularity Prototypes for Rural Communities

Building Facades That Move, Textiles That Illuminate: A Pathway to Flexible, Resilient Architecture

Built Environment and Infrastructure Focus Area: Building Facades That Move, Textiles That Illuminate

Portable Light Project

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