Friendship Cabins / Josh Draper (CASE)
Faculty News: Friendship Cabins / Josh Draper (CASE). Sr. Lecturer Josh Draper develop the Friendship Cabins, an experimental outdoor dining structures in Brooklyn, NYC, as an extension of his work as a researcher at RPI’s Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology. This project is part of an on-going research work using interlocking plastic bottles (Friendship […]
F21 ARCH AWAY Internship – City of Chicago
Exclusive RPI Internship Opportunity: City of Chicago Internship Applications DUE JUNE 15TH: The City of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development and the Bureau of Planning and Design have extended an internship opportunity for current fourth-year students currently seeking a fall 2021 Arch away opportunity. Employment Information The fall 2021 full-time internship position will start […]
CASE Spring Open House
OPEN HOUSE: Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE). June 4th, 10am-3:30pm. To join us, please RVSP: ///
Carla Leitao at Venice Architecture Biennale
Faculty News: CARLA LEITAO AT THE 17TH VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE_ Lecturer Carla Leitao at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion. Titled “CITYX Venice” and curated by Tom Kovac (RMIT) and Alessandro Melis (Portsmouth), the pavilion responds to the call ‘How will we live together?’ by the Biennale’s curator Hashim Sarkis. Prof. Leitao participates […]
Sustainable Futures Conference
April Tue-27 to Fri-30: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE. This virtual event — cohosted by the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology at Rensselaer, The Future of Small Cities Institute, and the University at Albany — will take place April 27-30. The conference will explore questions surrounding the expansion of sustainability in all sectors of civic and […]
Jay Wickersham [Kornblut Memorial Lecture]
Thu Apr-08@ 6:30pm EST [Public Livestream Link] JAY WICKERSHAM / Conflicting Loyalties: Ethics and the Architect_ Jay Wickersham is an architect and lawyer, and a founding partner in the Cambridge, MA law firm Noble, Wickersham & Heart. He represents leading architectural firms around the US and globally, and is updating the City of Boston’s zoning […]
Anne Schopf: “Quiet Activism” [lecture]
Thu Mar-18@ 6:30pm EST [Public Livestream Link] ANNE SCHOPF: “Quiet Activism”_ Rensselaer School of Architecture continues its Spring 2021 Lecture Series with the online lecture “Quiet Activism” by Anne Schopf. An alum and member of the Dean’s Leadership Council, Anne Schopf is a principal with Mahlum Architects in Oregon. Working across all studios in the firm […]
Rise High Workshop Series
Regional Initiative: RISE HIGH WORKSHOP SERIES The Rise High Program was created as a supplemental STEM education program for Schenectady middle school students in an effort to close the discipline’s diversity gap. It was established in 2017 by Dr. Mark Little, retired GE Global Research Center (GRC) Executive; his wife Terri Little, a former teacher […]
Daniel Widrig: “Material Architecture” [lecture]
Thu March-11@ 6:30pm EST [Public Livestream Link] DANIEL WIDRIG: “Material Architecture”_ Rensselaer School of Architecture continues its Spring 2021 Lecture Series with the online lecture “Material Architecture” by Daniel Widrig. Daniel Widrig founded his studio in London in 2009. After graduating from the Architectural Association Daniel worked for several years with Zaha Hadid where he was […]
Jim Martin – Jeff Betts [BldgSci Lecture]
Thu March-11 @ 1.30pm EST via Zoom [see link below] JIM MARTIN – JEFF BETTS: Generative Justice / Local Actor Series_ As part of the Fall 2020/Spring 2021 Building Sciences Lecture Series themed: “Generative Citizenship: Leveraging New Tools and Forms of Entrepreneurship in the City” we invite you to join us on Thursday, March 11 […]