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 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 […]
Nic Goldsmith
“Structural Poetics” Monday, October 21st, 5:00p.m. est EMPAC Theater Steven Ehrlich ’68 Architecture Lecture Nic Goldsmith is the Founding Director of the Lightweight Structures Group at Silman a TYLin Company. Previously he was the Principal of FTL Design Engineering Studio a leading design firm specializing in membrane construction systems where Mr. Goldsmith has helped pioneer […]
Antón García-Abril
“Architecture of the Earth” Wednesday, October 9th, 5:00p.m. est EMPAC Theater Kenneth L. Warriner Memorial Lecture Rensselaer School of Architecture continues its Fall 2024 Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 9th, 5:00 p.m., at EMPAC with the lecture “Architecture of the Earth” by Antón García-Abril. Antón García-Abril is a European Licensed Architect and a registered architect […]
2024 Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival
RPI Students and Faculty Design and Build Rise, Repeat RPI students and faculty, led by Leandro Piazzi and Claire Moriarty, recently participated in the Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival, which took place September 11 – 15 on the site of the historic Wookstock festival. Participating RPI students include Preston Kwok, Zonglin Li, Eric Diaz, […]
Marcela Correa
“Natural Synthetic” Wednesday, September 18th, 5:00p.m. est EMPAC Theater Rensselaer School of Architecture continues its Fall 2024 Lecture Series Wednesday, September 18th, 5:00 p.m., at EMPAC with the lecture “Natural Synthetic” by Marcela Correa. Marcela Correa, sculptor, graduated in Art at Universidad Católica de Chile. Her work is based on the various materials such as […]
Ferda Kolatan
“Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21 Century City” Wednesday, September 11th, 5:00p.m. est EMPAC Theater Rensselaer School of Architecture kicks off its Fall 2024 Lecture Series Wednesday, September 11th, 5:00 p.m., at EMPAC with the lecture “Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21 Century City” by Ferda Kolatan. Ferda Kolatan is an Associate […]
School of Architecture Welcome Home Celebration
Join us at The State Room in Albany, New York Thursday, September 26, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. est RSVP Here As part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Bicentennial commemoration during Reunion & Homecoming weekend, Dean Evan Douglis invites all School of Architecture alumni to join him to celebrate our collective journey that began at RPI and […]