Hyde Collection Charrete (Fall 2011)
Regional Initiative: Master Planning & Design Charrette Hyde Collection SCHEDULE Session 1: SETTING THE AGENDA Thursday, September 22, 6-9:00pm 6:00p Welcome Comments: Andrew Saunders, Assistant Professor and charrette co-coordinator Mark Mistur, Associate Dean and charrette co-coordinator 6:10p The Opportunity and Charge: David Setford, Director Erin Coe, Curator Board Members 6:30p The Hyde Collection: Opportunity […]
Book Launch
Sunday April 1st, 5:30 pm. BUILDING FUTURES: RE-ENVISIONING THE HYDE AT RENSSELAER. The Hyde Collection: 161 Warren Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801. The Hyde Collection’s board of trustees and David F. Setford, executive director, along with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Dean of the School of Architecture Evan Douglis, cordially invite you to attend the book launch […]
Press Coverage:
S(around)ound @ The Gasholder Building (Audio slideshow). Times Union (Albany). March 28, 2012 at 3:00 pm by Michael Janairo, Arts & Entertainment Editor. Violinist Todd Reynolds returned to the Gasholder Building in Troy to perform last Saturday and Sunday night in “S(around)ound” — pronounced “surround sound.” The experimental violinist and composer worked with students from […]
2012 Smart Geometry
MARCH 12-24, 2012. The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and […]
Oksiuta @ EMPAC
Faculty Lecture: A Biological Future? In his research, Rensselaer Architecture professor Zbigniew Oksiuta develops living biological habitats by combining art, architecture, engineering, and the biological sciences. His work looks beyond historical, social, urbanistic, and aesthetic factors to reduce the notion of space to its absolute minimum: the physical and chemical parameters that enable physiological existence. […]
Spring 2012 Lecture Series
Lecture Series (Spring 2012) Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Schedule PATRICK SCHUMACHER Parametric Order Mon Feb 13th – Theater ALICE AYCOCK Work Wed Feb 15th – […]
3D Systems Partners With RPI
Building Futures: Re-Envisioning The Hyde at Rensselaer Company Prints Students’ Proposals for Unified Hyde Collection Campus. ROCK HILL, S.C., Feb 14, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — When a beloved museum in upstate New York needed a new master plan for its sprawling campus, it turned to a potent resource to spark the brainstorm: students at […]