Miho Mazereeuw
Director of the Urban Risk Lab, Associate professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Architect and Landscape architect Miho Mazereeuw, is an associate professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and is the director of the Urban Risk Lab. Working on a large, territorial scale with an interest in public spaces and the urban experience, Mazereeuw is known for her work in disaster resilience.
In the Urban Risk Lab multi-disciplinary groups of researchers work to innovate on technologies, materials, processes, and systems to reduce risk. Operating on several scales, the Lab develops methods to embed risk reduction and preparedness into the design of the regions, cities and urban spaces to increase the resilience of local communities.
Miho Mazereeuw taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the University of Toronto prior to joining the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an Arthur W. Wheelwright Fellow, she is completing her forthcoming book entitled Preemptive Design: Disaster and Urban Development along the Pacific Ring of Fire featuring case studies on infrastructure design, multifunctional public space and innovative planning strategies in earthquake prone regions. Her design work on disaster prevention has been exhibited globally. As the director of the Urban Risk Lab at MIT, Mazereeuw is collaborating on a number of projects with institutions and organizations in the field of disaster reconstruction/prevention and is currently working in Haiti, India, Japan and Chile.
Mazereeuw was formerly an Associate at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and has also worked in the offices of Shigeru Ban and Dan Kiley. Mazereeuw completed a Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Sculpture and Environmental Science at Wesleyan University and her Master in Architecture and in Landscape Architecture with Distinction at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she was awarded the Janet Darling Webel Prize and the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship.
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- Director - Urban Risk Lab, Associate Professor in Archiecture and Urbanism Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012)
- Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Design (2010 — 2012)
- Associate Office for Metropolitan Architecture (2004 — 2007)
Education
- MA & MLA Harvard Graduate School of Design (1997 — 2002)
- BA Wesleyan University (1992 — 1996)
Videos
Building Resilient Cities for the Future - Miho Mazeereuw
Starr Forum: 3.11: Five Years After the Triple Disaster in Northeastern Japan
ArcDR3 Guest Lecture: Miho Mazereeuw
[LIVE] Thai PBS World Tonight 7 July, 2020
Urban Risk Reduction, Preparedness and Financing
Interview Miho Mazereeuw, Director, Urban RiskLab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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