SoA @ CANstruction
WE ARE NOT IN CANSAS ANYMORE! The 3rd annual Canstruction is on its way at Albany’s State Museum. This program not only highlights the ingenuity of those in the architecture, engineering and construction fields, but also serves as a fundraising and canned food drive for the Food Pantries of the New York’s Capital District. This year, […]
Fall 2013 Electives
Please see here the list of courses available for next semester: FALL 2013. ARCH4840 Architectural Acoustics 1 Providing an overview of the essentials for architectural acoustics design of performance and public spaces, including concert halls, theaters, museums, classrooms, sports arenas, courtrooms, and religious buildings. The course may be used as a concentration in an architecture […]
Crembil wins “VIDA Art & Artificial Life” grant
Assistant Professor Gustavo Crembil was awarded a prestigious VIDA 1.4 Art & Artificial Life Production Incentive for “TZ’IJK,” an art installation that will use mud-encased giant spherical robots to provide insights into possible parallel narratives between contemporary robotics and Mayan creation myths. Crembil shares the award with collaborator Paula Gaetano-Adi, a former electronic arts instructor […]
6 SHOWS ONLY @ EMPAC
Feb 28, March 1 & 2. 7pm & 9pm. SoA + HASS + EMPAC // RPI’s School of Architecture (SoA) and School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), in conjunction with EMPAC are pleased to present: THE MACHINE STARTS A new media performance under the direction of renowned visiting artists Mary Ellen Strom and […]
OCCUPY DUBAI
Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, TYLER HOPFT (Browns Fellow 2013) will present: occupy DUBAI. What 99%? The project is an exploration on the flamboyance and extravagance of the extremely wealthy. One measure of this within architecture is the height of the towers and the speed of growth in a city. Dubai has […]
EMERGENT VERTISCAPES
Tue Feb, 6 pm @ The Greene Gallery, RICHARD OFF (Browns Fellow 2010) will present: EMERGENT VERTI-SCAPES. Innovative High-Rise Development & Hyper-Dense Urbanism In Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur + Singapore / Hong Kong + Shanghai The developing nations of China and Malaysia are emerging as industrial powers, and their foremost cities are building extensive skylines […]
Digital Sessions S’2013
@ Digital Futures Lab, 7-9PM. Greene Building 2nd Floor. All session are from 7-9PM. All dates are tentative per school conflicts. Please refer to the weekly emails for exact dates. Contact with any questions. DIGITAL SESSIONS SCHEDULE PROCEDURAL TECTONICS > 1/30 – 1/31: An introduction to the use of Grasshopper’s analysis and recursive features for the production […]
Perry Goes Soft
Geofutures‘ Director Chris Perry writes in [bracket] # 2 Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard of Infranet Lab, this second volume in the impressive [bracket] series “examines the use and implications of soft today – from the scale of material innovation to territorial networks.” In a back-to-back series of short presentations, [bracket] editorial advisors […]
Superdome by Alex Dorn & Tyler Hopft
@ 10 Top Images on Archinect’s “Student Work” Pinterest Board superNODE by TYLER HOFT AND ALEX DORN Design Development Studio Critics: Mark Mistur and Demetrios Comodromos UNstudio’s ‘Newer Orleans’ project was re-adressed formally, programatically and conceptually and then developed to DD.
“Sleeping Life” Anthony Titus
Exhibition @ Glass Gallery, Greene Building / RPI SLEEPING LIFE, by Anthony Titus Opening Reception: October 25th at 6PM. This elegant show of constructed paintings takes its imagery, forms and themes from the history of painting, the cartoon stylizations of the Superflat movement, and the presentation of landscape as mediated by television. The Opening Reception […]