Charette with students from Kindai University, Japan
Academic Exchange: Charette with Kindai University guests_ This past semester, RPI hosted a group of students from our sister school, Kindai University in Japan. Led by the internationally renowned architect, Shinichi Ogawa, twenty-four students attended an accelerated collaborative workshop with Rensselaer students from our vertical design studio sequence. Using RPI’s campus as a case-study site, […]
ISATMA 2018 @ CRAIVE Lab
Sunday May-20, 2-6pm @ CRAIVE: ISATMA 2018: Expanding the Improvising Community across Abilities, Bodies and Cultures. Participate! Experience! Create! The International Symposium on Assistive Technology for Music and Art (ISATMA) is devoted to new technologies and artistic concepts that provide artists across abilities access to creative tools for making multimedia works. It addresses adaptive interfaces […]
“History of Ecological Design” by Lydia Kallipoliti
Faculty News: Assistant Professor Lydia Kallipoliti published the online textbook “History of Ecological Design” for Oxford English Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Undergraduate BArch student Emily Klein was the research assistant to this project. The textbook could be accessed following this link.
Co-Term Lighting Student wins IESNYC Scholarship
Student News: Zachary Pearson, a candidate in the Master of Science in Lighting program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is the winner of the third annual IESNYC Scholarship. This merit-based scholarship of $25,000 aims to support a full-time, graduate degree candidate in architectural lighting enrolled in an accredited college or university located in New York State. […]
Michael Webb [Recent Lecture]
Mon Apr-23 6pm @ EMPAC Theater: MICHAEL WEBB: “True Green, Ice Cores, and the Representation of Infinity”_ Michael Webb is an English Architect who studied architecture at the then Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture (now the University of Westminster) from 1953 to 1972. A project he designed during his fourth year at the Polytechnic found […]
Emre Arolat [Recent Lecture]
Wed April-18 6pm @ EMPAC: EMRE AROLAT_ Emre Arolat received a B.Arch. and Master of Architecture degree both from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. In 2004, he established EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture together with Gonca Pasolar. The firm has professionally grown to over 70 employees, based in New York, London and Istanbul. EAA is highly […]
Fall 2018 Electives
Elective Courses available: ARCH4020/CIVIL4020 Bedford Sem: Advanced Building Structures (Civil) This interdisciplinary seminar consists of students from both the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering department. Presentation of a variety of structural typologies bears direct relation to practical experience and the necessity for constructive interdisciplinary discourse. Specific structural typologies are examined through historic and contemporary […]
Alicia Imperiale: “La Triennale Occupata” (ArchiteXX Talk)
Thu April-12 6PM @ Greene Library: ALICIA IMPERIALE: “La Triennale Occupata: The Occupation of the XIV Milan Triennial of 1968″_ Presented by Alicia Imperiale, PhD, Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Respondent: Lydia Kallipoliti, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Pizza will be served. This talk examines the theme of activism in Italy in the period leading up […]
Lydia Kallipoliti at Storefront’s “The Big Discussion”
Faculty News: On Saturday March-31, Lydia Kallipoliti, Assistant Professor and Geofutures Co-Director, participated in “The Big Discussion”, a panel moderated by Andrés Jaque for the closing of Storefront for Art and Architecture’s exhibition, “Sex and the So-Called City”. http://storefrontnews.org/programming/salon-series-the-big-discussion/