Despite their invention to serve people, industrial infrastructures do not naturally fit with peopled environments.

They are densifications of resources that disrupt the patterns of comfortable urban fabrics. Landing is an approach towards re-choreographing the unique mis-fits and frictions created by the industrialization of the landscape to invent new engagements between people, industry, and the city. This lecture, "Landing - Industry in the Structure of Places", will review a series of investigations and installations undertaken by Landing Studio to unearth and re-initiate the relationship of industrial infrastructure to the city.

Dan Adams founded Landing Studio in 2005 with partner Marie Adams. Landing Studio designs architecture and industrial infrastructure and landscapes. A principal focus is to develop design tactics for choreographing active global industries and infrastructures with urban systems. Since 2005, Landing Studio has designed port and transporation infrastructures in Boston and New York through the design of marine infrastructures, operations buildings, demolition plans, shared infrastructure/public park landscapes, habitats, light installations, festivals, museum exhibitions, and industrial/community operations agreements. Research includes the study of port facilities, ocean transport, mining operations, and industrial ecologies around the world.  

Dan has a BSArch from the University of Michigan, and an MArch from Harvard University. Since 2011, Dan has been an Assistant Professor in the Urban Landscape program at Northeastern University.

Daniels Sessions aims to explore new and alternative viewpoints on architectural practice and research. The series features speakers who present unconventional perspectives and work from both inside and outside of the discipline. Daniels Sessions aims to provoke thought and generate discussion in a less formal setting. Following the lecture, audience members are invited to continue the conversation with the speaker in the Graduate Student Lounge, located in the lower level of 230 College Street.