Dennis Frenchman
Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning
Director, City Design and Development
Room 10-485M
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: dennisf@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-8847
Current Research
Event Places, Principal Investigator with J. Mark Schuster in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of catalunya. The project focuses on understanding the relationship between urban events and the public places that support them, including detailed cases in the US and Europe
Seoul Digital Media City, a large scale mixed use center for the media industry in Korea. Prof. Frenchman was responsible for the overall design concept for the city and is now focusing, with a team of MIT and Seoul researchers, on design of an experimental digital Media Street, the organizing spine of the city.Selected Publications
"Event Places in North America: City meaning and Making", in Sabate, Frenchman, Schuster, Event Places (Generaletat di Catalunya, 2004)
"Heritage as a Catalyst for Renewal", in Lorens (ed) Large Scale Urban Redevelopment (Polytechnic University of Gdansk, 2002)
Designing the Llobregat Corridor (with Ben-Joseph, et. al.) (MIT-UPC, 2001)
"Narrative Places ad the New Practice of Urban Design,"in Vale and Warner (eds), Imaging the City (Center for Urban Policy Research, 2001)
"The Reclamation of Boston Harbor", Urbanistics, Fall, 2000
Recent Classes
11.301J Introduction to Urban Design and Development Fall 09
11.303J Real Estate Development Studio: Complex Urban Projects Spring 10
11.307 Beijing Urban Design Studio Fall 10
11.333J Urban Design Seminar Spring 10
11.335J Cities of Tomorrow
Recent Awards
Irwin Sizer Award for Innovation in Teaching, Beijing Urban Design Studio.
Additional Information
Dennis Frenchman, AIA, is Director of the City Design and Development program, Chair of the Masters in City Planning program and on the faculty of the enter for Real Estate. Professor Frenchman has lead international study programs and studios in Italy, Spain, China, Korea, Bhutan, and Israel and has served as External Advisor on urban livability to President James Wolfenson of the World Bank. He is a former board member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and National Architectural Accrediting Board.
Dennis Frenchman is also a founding principal of ICON architecture, inc., located in Boston with an international practice in architecture, urban design and planning. His practice and research has focused on the transformation of older, underutilized areas of cities, including many nationally significant historic places and regions. He has a particular interest in the redevelopment of former industrial resources and has prepared plans for the renewal of textile mill towns, canals, rail corridors, steel mills, coal and oil fields, shipyards and ports. He has also played a major role in the renewal of public housing, older urban neighborhoods and downtown commercial centers. His work in these areas has been cited as the most outstanding in the US three times by the American Planning Association and he has won awards from the AIA, government and civic design groups and professional magazines.
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