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 […]
SoA Faculty @ ACSA Conference
Faculty News: BETWEEN THE AUTONOMOUS & THE CONTINGENT OBJECT. SoA faculty Lonn Combs, Lydia Kallipoliti, Stefano Passeri, and Chris Perry will participate in the forthcoming ACSA Fall Conference at Syracuse University, October 8-10: More information about the debate here
Prof. Jaimini Metha on Fatehpur Sikri and the Indian Experience
LECTURE: Tue Oct-6 3pm @ Greene Gallery: EMBODIED VISION: Interpreting the Architecture of Fatehpur Sikri. On Tuesday, October 6th at 3pm – Greene Gallery, Baroda-based architect, historian, and professor of architecture Jaimini Mehta will present on the Indian experience through the lends of his Fatehpur Sikri scholarly research titled “Embodied Vision: Interpreting the Architecture of […]
SoA Film Night
RENSSELAER SOA FILM NIGHT”_ The Rensselaer SoA Film Night is a student-organized film series which foregrounds a diverse range of films for screening and casual conversation among students, faculty, and friends. Showings will take place in Greene 120 (or Main Gallery; see event posters in Greene) at 7pm on below dates Erik Weaver (B.Arch. Class […]
Geofutures student awarded prize at Dry Futures competition
Geofutures graduate Muhammad Ahmad Khan’s Master’s Project from the Spring semester of 2015, titled Urban Swales, has placed second in the speculative category of the Dry Futures competition sponsored by Archinect. Congratulations to Ahmad and the Spring 2015 Geofutures faculty: Ted Ngai and Chris Perry (studio critics), Fleet Hower and Kelly Winn (associate critics and […]