Professor Matt Burgermaster wins AIA Tri-State Design Award
RPI School of Architecture Professor Matt Burgermaster and his office MABU received a 2024 Tri-State Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for the project “Twenty Ways Home”. The Tri-State Design Awards is a bi-annual program that recognizes regional design excellence across the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. This adaptive reuse […]
Spring 2025 Lecture Series
Rensselaer Architecture is pleased to announce its full lecture series for spring 2025. All events start 5:00pm at EMPAC Theater unless otherwise noted. Admission is free. Wednesday, January 29 Ludwig Godefroy Concordance Wednesday, February 05 Sara Navrady / Mecanoo Architectural Alchemy: Space, Meaning & Connection Wednesday, February 12 James Carpenter Embodied Light in the Public […]
Bay Area RPI School of Architecture Alumni Experience
Register Here! It is our pleasure to invite School of Architecture alum to the first-ever Bay Area RPI School of Architecture Alumni Experience on Monday, January 27, 2025, 6-8 p.m. Chuck Oraftik ’66 has graciously arranged for us to enjoy hearty hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and conversation at his former firm, HOK Inc., at One Bush […]
Erel and Moriarity Receive ACADIA Design Award
Assistant Professor Yael Erel and Lecturer Claire Moriarty recently received the Best Project Award for their project Augmenting Reflectors – SPSF Reflector Fabrication presented at ACADIA 2024 Designing Change Conference. This project explores reflecting dynamic light caustics off of augmented mirrored sheets. It manifests a multi-layered design for change: metal sheet augmentation, sound-responsive light projections as well as revolving reflective […]
RPI Student Work Featured in Dezeen
Ten RPI student architecture projects have been featured in the online magazine Dezeen as part of their Dezeen School Shows. Projects featured include work from each year of the five-year B. Arch. program at RPI. The School of Architecture included a statement about its featured work: “Situated within one of the premier technological research universities […]
Patcharada Inplang + Thongchai Chansamak
“Read the River – Read the Wood Grain“ Monday, November 11th, 5:00 p.m. est EMPAC Lecture Hall Annual Global Perspectives Lecture Thongchai Chansamak and Patcharada Inplang co-founded Sher Maker, an architecture and design studio in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2018. Chansamak completed his architecture degree at Chiang Mai University in 2008, while Inplang earned her […]
James Carpenter
“Embodied Art in the Public Realm“ Wednesday, February 12th, 5:00p.m. est EMPAC Theater Mosaic Architecture Lecture James Carpenter is a designer and glass sculptor, envisioning and translating the aesthetic and imaginative possibilities of glass into built environments. His work draws from architecture, engineering, materials science, and sculpture, extending the boundaries of each. Carpenter studied architecture […]
Sara Navrady / Mecanoo
“Architectural Alchemy: Space, Meaning & Connection“ Wednesday, February 5th, 5:00p.m. est EMPAC Theater Sara Navrady is an Associate Architect at Menacoo, were she has worked since 2015. Since graduating from the Delft University of Technology in 2012 with a Master of Science in Architecture, she has worked in multi-disciplinary offices in Calgary, Boston, London, Paris, […]
Ludwig Godefroy
“Concordance“ Wednesday, January 29th, 5:00p.m. est EMPAC Theater Frank Pitts ’75 Architecture Lecture Ludwig Godefroy is an architect based in Mexico City. A 2006 graduate of the École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est, Godefroy honed his craft at OMA under Rem Koolhaas and at Tatiana Bilbao Estudio before founding Ludwig Godefroy Architecture […]
James Wines
“What Else Could it Mean: Transformation Ideas in Art, Architecture and Context“ Wednesday, November 6th, 6:00p.m. est Online Lecture Frank Pitts ’75 Architecture Lecture James Wines is the Founder of the Environmental Art and Architecture Studio, SITE. Wines is a graduate of the Syracuse University School of Art (1955) and former director of environmental design […]