Ute Besenecker: Beyond Appearances
Wed April 13th, Talk: 12:30pm Installation/Demonstration: noon-5pm @ EMPAC, Studio 1 “Beyond Appearances: The Experience of Equivalent Colors at Architectural Scale” On Wednesday, April 13th Ph.D. candidate Ute Besenecker will present her winning project for the 2015 Jaffe Student Production Competition at EMPAC titled Beyond Appearances: The Experience of Equivalent Colors at Architectural Scale. Besenecker is […]
[Recent Lecture] Mitchell Joachim
Mon April 18th, 6pm @ EMPAC Concert Hall “Bio-Hacking and Urban Architecture”: MITCHELL JOACHIM/TERREFORM ONE Mitchell Joachim is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Formerly, he was an architect at the offices of Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei. He is a TED Senior Fellow and has been awarded fellowships with […]
[recent lecture] Annabelle Selldorf
Mon Mar 28th, 6pm @ EMPAC Theater “Common Ground”: ANNABELLE SELLDORF Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal of Selldorf Architects. Born and raised in Germany, she received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute, and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. She established her own firm in New York in 1988. […]
Fall 2016 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 […]
Prof. Titus Exhibits at 5×5 : Participatory Provocations
“Prof. Anthony Titus Exhibits at 5×5” Professor Anthony Titus is among twenty-five young architects whose contribution is on display for the 5×5 Participatory Provocations exhibition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With five identified contemporary issues, each addressed by five firms, the exhibition set out to display the responses by “creative minds taking clear […]
[recent lecture] Heneghan Peng
Wed Mar-2, 6pm @ EMPAC. “SETTING OUT”: HENEGHAN PENG Heneghan Peng Architects (hparc) is a design partnership practicing architecture, landscape and urban design. The practice was founded by Shih-Fu Peng and Róisín Heneghan in New York in 1999 and in 2001 they relocated their main office to Dublin, Ireland. Heneghan Peng Architects advocates a multi-disciplinary approach […]
Closed Worlds: Encounters That Never Happened
Saturday, February 27th 12-6 pm Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Sq., New York “Encounters That Never Happened” On Saturday, February 27th, Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union jointly hosted a public conference, Closed Worlds: Encounters That Never Happened. The conference steams from […]
[recent lecture] Cristian Nanzer
Mon Feb-22, 6pm @ EMPAC. “INHABITED TERRITORIES. FROM INTIMATE TO PUBLIC”: CRISTIAN NANZER Argentinean architect Cristian Nanzer developed his practice in his native province of Cordoba, where his design work ranges from private residences in partnership with Mariela Marchisio, to public scale projects with several design partnerships and collaborations. Among his practice’s selected wining competition proposals […]
Blast-Off! Alexandra Rempel & Lonn Combs
Wed Feb-24, 6pm @ GR101. Blast-Off! Discussion: REMPEL & COMBS. This semester’s Blast-Off! Career Development Chat will take place on Wednesday, February 24, from 6-7:30 p.m. in Room Greene 101. Professors Alexandra Rempel and Lonn Combs will talk about their career paths and discuss a variety of career and graduate school options available to you. This […]
Prof. Oksiuta: lecture and workshop at Michigan State
Mon Feb-15, 2016. Professor Zbigniew Oksiuta will lecture at Michigan State University’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design as part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. The following day, Oksiuta will also lead a workshop “in which participants will create dynamic, biological membranes.” Zbigniew Oksiuta is an architect and artist experimenting with the […]