[Recent Lecture] Steven Ehrlich
Mon Oct 26 6pm @ EMPAC: Steven Ehrlich: “Evolving Multicultural Modernism”_ Steven Ehrlich, founding partner of Ehrlich Architects and member RPI class of ’68, learned early on the significance of how architecture responds to the culture and the environment – he is a self-proclaimed “architectural anthropologist.” Upon graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor […]
Licensing and IDP Presentation
Thurs, Oct 22nd, 6:00pm @ DCC324 NCARB, LICENSING, ARE and All Things IDP Please join Harry Falconer, AIA, NCARB and Robert Lopez, RA (RPI Class of ’88) in the Darrin Communications Center this Thursday evening for a brief seminar/information session titled “Leading Voices: Straight from the Source” on all things required to become a licensed […]
Blast-Off! Francis Bitonti & Russ Leslie
Wed Oct. 21st, 6:00pm @ GR120. Blast-Off! Discussion: BITONI & LESLIE Adjunct Professor Francis Bitonti and Associate Lighting Research Center Director Russell Leslie will host this semester’s Blast-Off! Career Discussion event. The event is set for Wednesday, October 21st at 6:00 p.m. in the Greene 120. Francis Bitonti and Russ Leslie will share information about their career paths with students […]
Combs, Mistur, Perry and Diniz at ACADIA’15
Faculty News: Lonn Combs (M.Arch 1 Director) and Chris Perry (Geofutures Program Director) are Co-Technical Chairs for ACADIA 2015, hosted by the University of Cincinnati, Oct 22-24. Associate Dean Mark Mistur will serve as a session chair. Assistant Professor Nancy Diniz, will serve as a session chair in addition to presenting a paper. The conference theme, Computational Ecologies: Design in […]
Competition Call: “Closed Worlds” (Storefront, NYC)
Deadline: Monday, November 16, 2015 11:59pm. Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti, along with Michelle Addington, Eva Franch, Mitchell Joachim, and Michael Young will jury the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s forthcoming Closed Words Design Competition. As part of the competition jury, Kallipoliti will also serve as curator of the exhibition What do outer space capsules, submarines, […]
Michael Oatman at The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Faculty News: Associate Professor Michael Oatman is featured in “Affinity Atlas,” a show currently in exhibition at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY. The show is organized by the museum’s director Ian Berry and can be visited until January 3rd, 2016. Michael Oatman’s series of intricate collages entitled The Branch […]
Nancy Diniz awarded EYEBEAM residency
Faculty News: Assistant Professor Nancy Diniz has been awarded a residency fellowship at the prestigious Eyebeam art + technology center in New York City, under their newly launched program “New Works from Innovators at the Intersection of Art and Technology“. Nancy Diniz is an architect, researcher and educator. Her main research and teaching interests question […]
F15 POSITIONS SERIES : Hacker Ingenuity
Thursday, October 22nd, 5:00pm @ the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology / SOM “Hacker Ingenuity”_ On Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 (5:00pm), the student-coordinated discussions series at Rensselaer, Positions Series, will host “Hacker Ingenuity,” at the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with guest speakers Andrew Witt and Brandon Clifford. […]
[Recent Lecture] Jenny Sabin
Wed Oct-14 6pm @ EMPAC: Jenny Sabin: “Matter Design Computation: Cells, Bits and Atoms”_ Jenny Sabin’s work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. […]
Spring 2016 Electives
Elective courses available: ARCH4010 Seminar in Sensory Culture The Seminar builds an understanding of the role of senses in a broad range of cultural productions through readings, writing, discussion, and projects. Source material will be drawn from neuro- and cognitive science, philosophy, art, medicine, psychiatry, perceptual psychology, performance and epistemology. First person experiences by means […]