Alison Notation’21 wins Sheng Fund Scholarship
Student News: BArch Sophomore Alison Notation was awarded the Sheng Fund Scholarship by the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, receiving a $5,000 prize. This memorial scholarship fund was established in 1997 by the Sheng family memory of Suzanne Sheng who was a Connecticut architect working with James Lawler, FAIA at the time of her death. The first […]
Kathryn Prigmore’78 on Black Women in Arch.
Alumni News: KATHRYN PRIGMORE’78: “Black Women in Architecture: A History of Activism” Friday June 22nd, 11am S9 Architecture: 460 West 34th St., 20th Floor, NYC Admission is Free Kathryn Prigmore ’78 will be one of the speakers at the African American Architects 50 Years After Whitney M. Young’s AIA Address to be held Friday, 6/22, at 11 a.m. at S9 […]
CASE’S Bottle Transitional Shelter (BoTS) at Industry City.
Exhibition: CASE’S Bottle Transitional Shelter (BoTS) at Industry City. CASE / RPI is very proud to be part of WANTED Design and Open Studios at Industry City. Their newest project – The Bottle Transitional Shelter (BoTS). BoTS is a testbed for environmental analysis of a new kind of shelter for disaster relief. Made with a […]
RPI Grand Marshal is Architecture Student Headed to Tesla for Internship
Student News Stephanie Warner: new GM and Tesla Intern_ Stefanie Warner, the first Architecture student to become Grand Marshal in about 30 years, is headed to Tesla as an intern for the summer. Stefanie said a friend who works in California suggested that she apply for an internship with Tesla, and she did it as […]
India/Italy Exhibition
Wed April -11 6pm @ Greene 201: India/Italy Exhibition Rensselaer Architecture hosted an exhibition on the recent Study Abroad programs in India and Italy. Students who traveled in the past year to India (Spring ’17) and Italy (Fall ’18) shared their inspiring work and life-changing experiences with the school in the form of models, drawings […]
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. […]