RECENT LECTURE: CATHERINE INGRAHAM
Wed Feb 26, 6PM @ EMPAC “Plasticity: Architecture and New Natures”. Catherine Ingraham is Professor of Architecture in the graduate architecture program at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she formerly served as Chair of Architecture from 1999-2005. Ingraham’s contributions to architectural culture are perhaps best summarized as an expansion beyond traditional disciplinary domains […]
DigShop #2: Python Scripting (E. Blasetti)
Sat Feb 22 & Sun Feb 23. What: PYTHON SCRIPTING. Scripting in Python: looping, recursion, logic of computation Who: EZIO BLASETTI. Ezio Blasetti, registered architect TEE-TCG, holds a masters of science in advanced architectural design from Columbia University after having previously studied in Athens and Paris. In 2009 he co-founded ahylo, an architectural design, research and construction practice […]
Shen Li: Rare Beast
SHOW: Feb 24-28, Greene 201 LECTURE: Mon Feb 24, 6pm, Greene Gallery SHEN LI: “RARE BEAST” [Brown’s Presentation] Thesis student, Shen Li presents RARE BEAST as a catalog of his travels across Europe. Li investigates “the specificity of form and surface” as part of the Brown’s Travel Fellowship that he was awarded in 2012. STYLE > […]
Sarah Goldfarb: “Architec[ul]ture”
SHOW: Feb 24-28, Greene 201 LECTURE: Mon Feb 24, 6pm, Greene Gallery SARAH GOLDFARB: “Architec[ul]ture” [Brown’s Presentation] Alumni, Sarah Goldfarb lectures on ARCHITEC[UL]TURE as “an inquiry into the ethics of architecture in a Third World country striving to create a global identity in the 21st century.” Goldfarb’s presentation is a reflection on her travels to […]
S’14 FP Review Dates
ARCHITECTURE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD: Final Project Directed Research Sequence [ARCH 4980 + 4990] REVIEW DATES | SPRING 2014. Final Project 1 + 2 [F2013 – S2014] Design Phase [Part I] Wednesday, March 5 12:00 – 6:00 Greene Gallery LEITAO (w/Ngai) CREMBIL (w/Perry) Design Phase [Part II] Friday, March 7 12:00 – 6:00 Greene Gallery […]
DigShop #1: Flip Milling (B. Ringley)
Wed Feb 12 & Thu Feb 13. What: FLIP MILLING. How to design and fabricate a milled prototype using double-sided milling techniques. REFERENCE FILES >> Grasshopper #1 and Grasshopper #2 Who: BRIAN RINGLEY. Technology Coordinator at CUNY City Tech’s Fuse Lab. He runs the fabrication labs and develops new architectural technology curriculum in the areas of computation […]
S’2014 Digital Wokshop
Starts Wed Feb 6th, 2PM DCC330 & 6PM @ DCC308 DIGITAL SESSIONS This Spring the school have scheduled a series workshops in which outside experts will come to Architecture | Rensselaer and teach a particular technique or skill. These workshops will run on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ATTENDANCE STUDENTS FROM ALL LEVELS ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO […]
Michael Stradley: Heroic Silence
SHOW: Feb 10-20, Greene 201 LECTURE: Wed Feb 19, 6pm, Greene Gallery Michael Stradley: “Heroic Silence” [Brown’s Presentation] Thesis student, Michael Stradley presents HEROIC SILENCE as his study of Swiss architecture, design, and design culture. This presentation covers his travels to Switzerland as part of the Brown’s Travel Fellowship that he was awarded in 2012. Heroic […]
Parker Bunce: Unspoken, with Exuberance
SHOW: Feb 10-20, Greene 201 LECTURE: Wed Feb 19, 6pm, Greene Gallery Parker Bunce: “Unspoken, with Exuberance” [Brown’s Presentation] Thesis student, Parker Bunce presents UNSPOKEN, WITH EXUBERANCE as a study of “Understanding the Finnish sense of place” not as site or landscape but “to understand culturally something greater, something intrinsic, something absorbed, something experienced, something […]
Recent Lecture: Roger Duffy
Mon Jan 27, 6pm @ EMPAC “S.O.M. An Evolving Legacy.” Roger Duffy is an American architect, known “for rigorous and unconventional approach to design” [Metropolis magazine]. He currently works as a partner at the renown firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. He has been a design partner in the New York office since 1995, and is a member of the American Institute of […]