Nick Axel (class 2010) at Storefront for Art & Architecture, NYC.
Alumnae News: MAKING BEING DOING. December 17 to 21, Nick Axel (SoA-RPI’ 2010) will be in residency at Storefront for Art and Architecture as a part of their Younger than Storefront: Five-Day Artist Residencies program and BEING exhibition. About the project What is a residency for? What does one do during a residency? One works. But […]
Saunders + Robofold
Browns Fellowship’13: ROBOTIC LATTICE SMOCK. Assistant Professor Andrew Saunders recently collaborated with Robofold (London, UK) in a design-research project with the support of SoA-RPI’s Browns Fellowship. Industrial design studio Robofold is one of “2013 Emerging Design Studio” nominees by ICON Magazine. Specialized curved folding techniques and robotic fabrication methods , the studio has been providing prototype for leading […]
Recent Lecture: Philip Yuan
Thu Nov 21, 6pm @ EMPAC “Autonomous Tectonics”. Dr Philip F. Yuan is Associate Professor at the Architecture and Planning Institute of Tongji University, Shanghai, Director of Archi-Union Architects, and a member of the Shanghai Urban & Planning Consultant Community. He has won the following important domestic and international design awards: 2nd prize for Excellent […]
JIAO-ZHI: TECTONIC INTERWORKINGS AT SHANGHAI’S SOUTH BUND
This catalog celebrates the student work developed during the 2012 joint design studio with CAUP / Tongji University, in Shanghai, and displays 16 students team projects with complementary essays. This 9-weeks intense design studio is the core component of SoA-RPI’s China Program, a biannual one-semester immersive cultural and academic exchange program. >> “In the […]
Prof. Comodromos distinguished as design educator
Faculty Recognition: DEMETRIOS COMODROMOS (RPI), one of “DesignIntelligence® 30 Most Admired Educators for 2014.” Each year, DesignIntelligence honors excellence in education and education administration by naming 30 exemplary professionals in these fields. The 2014 class of education role models was selected by DesignIntelligence staff with extensive input from thousands of design professionals, academic department heads, […]
Julia Watson [lecture and opening]
MON NOV 11TH, 6PM @ GREENE GALLERY: “Landscape Architecture Without Landscape Architects.” The Study of the Subak system, sponsored by the Brown’s Faculty Fellowship allowed Prof Julia Watson to form a collaborative and work with the Indonesian Government to develop a design for culture, conservation and livelihood development to coexist. The lecture this coming Monday […]
Re-Envisioning The MiSci At Schenectady
Regional Initiative: Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The MiSci At Schenectady OPENING RECEPTION
Erin Butler Wins Browns Fellowship
New Program: 2014 Brown’s India Fellowship Awarded to Erin Butler. Erin Butler (class 2015) submitted the winning application for the new Browns’ India Fellowship. Erin is our School’s first winner of this new program. She will travel to the Millowners Association Building in Ahmedabad, India, where she will work closely with Mr. Abhinava Shukla, the […]
Recent Lecture: coop himmelb(l)au > WOLF PRIX
Mon Nov 4th, 6pm @ EMPAC Don’t worry. In two days tomorrow will be yesterday. Coop Himmelblau, also rendered Coop Himmelb(l)au, avant-garde architecture firm that rose to prominence in the 1980s and ’90s. The two central members were Wolf D. Prix (b. December 13, 1942, Vienna, Austria) and Helmut Swiczinsky (b. January 13, 1944, Poznań, Poland). Coop Himmelblau was founded in 1968 by Prix, […]
Recent Lecture: Elena Manferdini
Wed Oct 16th, 6pm @ EMPAC. “Unplugged”. Elena Manferdini graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later received her master’s degree in architecture and urban design from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, she founded Atelier Manferdini, a design office in Los Angeles, California. The office is based on a multi-scale […]